Vivica A. Fox Back for Independence Day 2Posted by Wilson Morales
March 24, 2015
Vivica A. Fox will reprise her role as Jasmine Dubrow for Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day 2, which hits theaters on June 24, 2016. Emmerich tweeted a pic of the two.
In ID4, Jasmine Dubrow is a single mother and exotic dancer who married her boyfriend, fighter pilot Captain Steven Hiller (played by Smith).
Exciting news… just officially closed @MsVivicaFox for #IndependenceDay! Here’s the pic! pic.twitter.com/hXVjnqOFaD
— Roland Emmerich (@rolandemmerich) March 24, 2015
Fox joins a cast that includes Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Goldblum and Fox were part of the 1996 original. Usher will play her son in the film. Will Smith is not expected to return to the sequel and talks are ongoing with Bill Pullman for him to reprise his role. He played U.S. President Thomas J. Whitmore.
Carter Blanchard is rewriting the script. Emmerich will produce the film along with Devlin and Harald Kloser.
The original Independence Day opened on July 3, 1996 and earned an impressive $817.4 million worldwide.
Fox was last seen in Black November. Her previous film credits include Set It Off, Soul Food, Two Can Play That Game and Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, and Syfy‘s Sharknado 2: The Second One.
