The 2020 disaster film “Greenland,” starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin, is getting a sequel.
Butler will reprise his role as structural engineer John Garrity, alongside co-star Baccarin as Allison Garrity with director Ric Roman Waugh and writer Chris Sparling also returning.
The original debuted last summer with the film scoring some of the best reviews of Butler’s action film career. Made for $35 million and released at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it grossed $52 million at the box-office.
However strong VOD sales and rentals, a big HBO Max streaming deal and a tightly budgeted marketing campaign were good enough that it has been estimated that by February this year it had already netted STX Films $60–80 million in profit.
The sequel will once again follow the Garrity family who, having survived a near-extinction level event, must leave the safety of the Greenland bunker and embark on a perilous journey across the decimated frozen wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Shooting will kick off next year. Financier Anton, Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures and Butler and Alan Siegel’s G-BASE are producing.
Source: THR
