GREENLAND 2 - APOCALYPTIC BUGALOO Coming Soon

[AndyDursin]

Or: GREENLAND 2: OUT OF THE BUNKER!

Producer and financier Anton, Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures and Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel’s G-BASE will produce a sequel feature to the action thriller “Greenland.” The core filmmaking team returns with director Ric Roman Waugh headlining from a script by “Greenland” writer Chris Sparling (“Lakewood”). Butler reprises his role as structural engineer John Garrity alongside co-star Morena Baccarin (“Deadpool,” “Homeland”) as Allison Garrity.

In a continuation of the story, the Garrity family, who survive a near-extinction level event when an interstellar comet hits Earth, 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.

The first feature, “Greenland,” defied global box office expectations when it debuted last summer to robust box office numbers amidst worldwide lockdowns and limited theater capacity. The film launched at the number one spot theatrically in over 26 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Russia. Following the U.S. and international theatrical roll-out by STX, the film debuted digitally on SVOD followed by an exclusive run in the U.S. on HBO Max. The film topped the rental features VOD list on both Apple and Google Play at a premium rental price.

Waugh said: “‘Greenland’ spoke to our humanity in the middle of a global catastrophic event, highlighting what people are capable of doing to one another, both good and bad, when it’s life or death.”

https://variety.com/2021/film/global/ge ... 234995827/

[Monterey Jack]

[AndyDursin]

Cause it made Butler some money.

[Monterey Jack]

$50 million gross (from WHERE?!) on a $35 million budget. Plus, considering how the movie ends (with THE. END.), where the hell could you go with it?

Still, if it means more of Morena Baccarin, it won't be a total wash.

[AndyDursin]

That doesn't include what it made streaming which I assume was even healthier for them to go into this so fast.

Story wise, yeah I mean who cares. The first one was creatively bankrupt to begin with!

[Monterey Jack]

Story wise, yeah I mean who cares. The first one was creatively bankrupt to begin with!

The first wasn't terrible, and it was nice to see an "end-of-the-world" movie that kept the scale small and intimate (due mainly to budgetary reasons, but still), yet there wasn't a moment in it that I hadn't seen done before, and better. Nice to see Scott Glen towards the end, but otherwise it was fairly blah.

[AndyDursin]

Right, it was competently done but it was all fabricated out of different movies we've seen before. Not sure how this one would function because they ordinarily don't bother with a second part!

[AndyDursin]

Greenland’ Sequel ‘Migration’ Sells To STX In Massive $75M+ Cannes Virtual Market Deal

https://deadline.com/2021/07/gerard-but ... 234784916/