Mizzougrad96 said:
I'll be curious if anyone from the original cast returns.
I'll bet Big Willie Style does a cameo only and I think they'll find a way to get Goldblum back since he's well-liked and won't cost a fortune.
I think they'd bring back almost everybody from the original cast who was apparently alive at the end of ID4. Only Smith is at the big-star level his salary would be a huge consideration for the movie. It's not like Goldblum or Bill Pullman are pulling down mega-millions for every movie these days.
Capt. Steven Hiller and Jasmine would now be President and First Lady -- that's almost a no-brainer. Plus Jasmine could do some pole dancing in the East Room just for old-times sake and the obligatory Fox movie strip-club scene.
Her son Dylan would now be in his mid-20s, probably a Marine pilot himself. Undoubtedly the Hillers would have had several other kids since then, all given to making snappy witty one-liners to liven up conversations.
David Levinson and Connie are still remarried, of course, with a child born a year or so after ID4. He would now be Secretary of Technology in the new cabinet. She would probably be VP or more likely Secretary of State.
Julius would still be around delivering pithy Jewish one-liners, probably chomping on prime Cuban cigars delivered to the White House. He would have become a rabbi.
President Whitmore would have returned to active duty in the USAF after leaving office, would be the nation's first living 6-star general and chairman of the JCOS.
Little Munchkin would have grown up by now, and inspired by the example of Jasmine who helped save her life, would have taken up a career as a stripper and would be married to Dylan the Marine pilot.
Weaselly Al Nimczicki, the Secretary of Defense fired by Whitmore, would have become a media celebrity on a talk-show news network devoted almost entirely to attacking both the president (Whitmore) and his successor (Hiller), second-guessing how they handled the invasion crisis and blaming all the millions of deaths directly on them.