“ VFX co-supervisor Doug Smith and I shot about 4,000 different scale-model elements and tabletop miniatures. 'Independence Day: Resurgence' Makes a Marketing Misstep With All-Too-Real Apocalyptic Site We were discussing the shooting schedule for the coming week, which sounded like, ‘Are we blowing up the Capitol on Wednesday and White House on Friday - or was that Thursday?’ Only then we realized that the guests at the other tables had stopped eating and were staring at us. Looking back, Engel admits that he didn’t quite realize what he was getting into when he signed up for the original. “In the beginning and with just a screenplay, it was difficult to imagine the scope we were dealing with,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “At some point during the miniature shoot, a group of us had lunch in an Italian restaurant close to the stages. “This is movie magic,” Engel said as he accepted the Oscar. The first Independence Day, with a cast led by Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, became the top-grossing movie of 1996, taking in $817.4 million worldwide, and its depiction of an alien ship zapping the White House to bits became part of the popular culture. In the follow-up, using the latest digital technology, the number of shots climbed to a whopping 1,750.
In the first film, which depends heavily on miniature models and practical effects, there were just 430 VFX shots.
And the work on the new pic illustrates just how much movie VFX have changed over the course of 20 years. The movie’s visual effects also mark a quantum leap over those in the original 1996 movie, which were considered state-of-the-art at the time, earning an Academy Award for Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil. The war against those destruction-bent aliens isn’t the only thing that escalates in Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence, opening Friday.
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