'Independence Day 2' Release Date, Cast News and Plot Spoilers: Vivica Fox Back Along With Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum; Will Smith Out

Will Smith will not be back as Captain Steven Hiller in "Independence Day 2," but his on-screen wife, Jasmine Dubrow, will.

Vivica Fox will reprise her role as Jasmine in the sequel to one of history's biggest box office hits which is set to hit the big screen on June 24, 2016.

In the original 1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich, Jasmine married Steven just before the latter left on a mission to sabotage the alien mother ship with their own space ship. Fox tweeted on Tuesday that Fox's inclusion in the cast was official. Emmerich, who will also direct the sequel, said he was pleased to have Fox back in the set.

Before she married Steven in the original movie, Jasmine was a single mother who worked as a stripper, taking care of her son, Dylan, who will be one of the main characters in the sequel. Jessie Usher ("Survivor's Remorse") will play the role of the adult Dylan Hiller in the sequel.

The original cast members joining Fox in the sequel are Bill Pullman (who played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the original "Independence Day" uttering the movie's catchphrases "We will not go quietly into the night!" and "This will be our Independence Day!") and Jeff Goldblum (who played computer expert David Levinson who joined Smith in the space mission to save Earth).

New cast members include Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Nymphomaniac," "Anti-Christ" and "Melancholia") and Liam Hemsworth ("The Hunger Games" and "The Expendables 2"). It is speculated that Hemsworth will be playing the son-in-law of Pullman's President James Whitmore.

Reports said that Will Smith has made it known that he would not want to be involved in the sequel, and that he was already too expensive and too big a star for the film.

Although initially intended to be a two-film sequel filmed back-to-back, only "Independence Day 2" will be produced first and the next sequel will depend on the performance of the first, sources said.

What is confirmed is that the aliens will be back. The film will be set in an alternate present day where the alien technology retrieved in the first film is now being harnessed, sources said.

The original "Independence Day" opened on July 3, 1996 and earned $817.4 million worldwide. The sequel will be produced by Emmerich, Dean Devlin and Harald Kloser.