Arise Sir Gerard Of Butler! Along with his fellow knight of the VHS cassette, Sir Jason of Statham, they still make the kind of movies a few studios wish they had the courage to make. Movies with a sensible budget, not based on some comic book IP or internet trend. The kind of movies our younger selves would have discovered at Ahmed’s convenience store-gas station-VHS rental emporium and loved every moment of that rental. Like Greenland.
Greenland was made for just $35 million. Butler starred as John Garrity, a structural engineer who attempts to flee Atlanta along with his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and diabetic son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) after an incoming comet is found to be on a collision path with the planet. John, Allison, and Nathan become separated, and the family struggles to reunite and survive while an extinction-level event draws closer.
It was a fantastic little movie. It also somehow made $50 million despite being released during the pandemic when movie theaters were shuttered across the world.
A sequel was in doubt for a while after STX put the film’s rights into bankruptcy protection, but now it is here, and Lionsgate has premiered the official trailer for Greenland 2: Migration.
The sequel is set in the aftermath of the comet strike that decimated most of the Earth. The story follows the Garrity family (Butler, Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis) as they’re forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to traverse a shattered world, and what’s left of Europe, in search of a new home.
Butler reunites with director Ric Roman Waugh and the first film’s writer, Chris Sparling. Butler, Alan Siegel, Brendon Boyea, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Sébastien Raybaud, and John Zois are producing. Anton and STX are co-producing and co-financing.
Gerry should have stayed in Britain. Their in-bunker entertainment was tight.
