Back in August 2021, Disney gave the official go-ahead for a sequel to this Summer’s action-adventure family feature “Jungle Cruise”.
Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Édgar Ramírez, Jesse Plemons and Paul Giamatti led the cast of the Jaume Collet-Serra-directed film about a small riverboat captain who takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life – all while competing against a German expedition, and cursed conquistadors.
Four years on, the film’s leading stars suggest the project is now dead. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Johnson and Blunt were straight-up asked if they believed a sequel to the film would still happen, and both replied, “I don’t think so.”
Johnson then went on to elaborate on why the film won’t happen:
“I think when Disney came under new leadership, they just shifted coming out of COVID. COVID shifted our business in a lot of ways. I think they looked at that property and thought, ‘We did it once, not sure if we should revisit it again.’ Despite whether or not our chemistry was great.”
Blunt then added that “they did not want to set sail again, and that’s fine.” The film was a box-office disappointment, grossing $221 million against a production budget of $200 million but also making a further $66 million over its first 30 days via the short-lived Disney+ Premier Access strategy.
