Gerard Butler‘s 2020 survival thriller Greenland will soon get a post-apocalyptic sequel in Greenland 2, with producer Sébastien Raybaud now revealing that there are discussions already happening regarding a possible third movie. In a new interview with Deadline, Raybaud offered an update on the first sequel, which is expected to debut next year, and teased that “something” will happen in Greenland: Migration that could make a Greenland 3 tricky…but they are currently working out how to continue the franchise.
“We wrapped in July and I saw a first cut this past week, which is great. It’s a great achievement for the filmmakers involved. It’s a $90M film and exactly the type we want to see more of in Europe.
We’re thinking about what could happen afterwards. There’s something that happens in 2 that could be tricky, but I’m sure we can find a way…”
Released back in December 2020, the first Greenland begins when scientists discover that fragments of a comet will hit Earth in a few days and will likely cause the extinction of humanity. The only hope of survival is to take shelter in a group of bunkers in Greenland, with the story following the Garrity family as they fight for survival and make their way to salvation before the comet collides with the planet.
Greenland: Migration Finds the Garrity Family Facing the End of the World
Director Ric Roman Waugh has since offered some insight into what the post-apocalyptic sequel will involve. In an interview with Collider last year, the filmmaker revealed that the follow-up will pick up several years after the first movie ends, with the Garrity family having left the safety of the bunker to face the new world.
“It’ll be about who survived, and how did they rebuild the earth when everything was completely burned to the ground. So it’s a beautiful kind of way to give you a conclusion of the Garritys and where they go. So, do you call it a sequel? Yeah, but to me, it’s more of the final chapter of what this story has to say.
And the fun of it is, the way that the extinction event happened during the dinosaur period and the continental divides changed, and where the tectonic plates went, we get to kind of F-up the world, so to speak, and create our own kind of utopia or dystopia, what we have now.”
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Greenland: Migration will strive to depict a realistic depiction of the post-apocalypse, with the filmmaker turning to science to explore how “the human psyche” would be affected after years underground.
“So we went by science and allowed a number of years to go by to where you realize that these people have been imprisoned underground. What does that do to the human psyche? How does that contribute to when you do go into a migration mode and you’re trying to find new places to survive and you have all of that trauma? A little boy that was eight years old, or seven years old, that’s now 13 or 14, what is his life as a teenager when he’s known nothing else but cement walls and underground? These are the things that we want to play with. So we feel like time underground, it’s factual of what happened, but also it helps us with story.”
Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin return for
Greenland: Migration,
which is expected to be released in early 2025.