A faux news broadcast on Fox, which aired the weekend before release, acted as a teaser of the unfolding, worldwide alien destruction.
When the script was submitted to studios, it sparked an all-out bidding war. 20th Century Fox won with an offer of $7.5 million plus a percentage of the profits. The film was greenlit immediately, and pre-production launched at breakneck speed. Although the budget was a hefty $75 million, that amount was modest compared to the epic scale Emmerich intended. The team filmed across seven states, including Utah, Arizona, and New Jersey, over three months.
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Relive the Invasion: Exploring the "Independence Day" (1996) Legacy on the Internet Archive
In 1996, the internet was dial-up, green-text monitors, and GeoCities. But Fox Studios did something radical: they built a legitimate-looking .gov-style website (it was actually hosted on FOX’s servers) that pretended the invasion was real. : An aerial chase where players dodged alien attackers
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