The one and only Gerard Butler is back as John Garrity, and the stakes are higher than ever. Greenland 2: Migration picks up five years after the original, which ended with the Garrity family narrowly escaping a world-ending comet and finding safety in a militarized doomsday bunker in Greenland. By his side was his wife Allison, played by Brazilian actress Morena Baccarin, and their son Nathan, played by Roman Griffin Davis. Now, the family is forced out of their once-safe underground refuge by radiation storms and a crumbling society.
The trailer dropped on Thursday, and the heart-pumping journey across a shattered Earth proves this survival story will have everything from tidal waves, mass destruction, rope bridges, and even more meteors. The family will need resilience and courage to survive.
In Greenland 2, John must lead his family to the giant crater left by the comet - a place they spent the first movie trying to avoid - where walls shield them from deadly storms outside. A devoted father, he promises, “I’ll take care of you both, to my last breath."
Butler has always said the heart of Greenland isn’t just the spectacle, it’s the family at its center. In a 2020 interview with UPI, he described the original as “so human, taking it from the lens of a family just trying to survive,” capturing the vulnerability, messiness, and small triumphs of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
© Courtesy of Lionsgate“The comet is always there and building, but we don’t actually spend a lot of time looking up at it. It’s what happens to the people and what they are going through,” he explained. That focus on human drama made the first movie stand out and set the stage for the sequel.
© Courtesy of LionsgateThe Brazilian actress echoed his past interview this year, talking to Collider. "I think that the film has really wonderful things going for it, the story of this family that really is trying to survive, and I think that that really works, and I think that's why it got a sequel," she explained.
The actors were tested physically and emotionally all over again. Baccarin said filming the sequel was the “hardest shoot” of her life. "Not the easiest, not the most fun. A really difficult experience. We were outside a lot. We shot in London and we shot in Iceland. It was physically draining, emotionally draining," she said.
The trailer has already been viewed almost 800k times in 6 hours, and fans can't wait to see how the filmmakers tackle the rare disaster sequel. "Not only was the first Greenland an actually good movie, but we're getting one of the rarest sequels ever: living in the aftermath of the disaster. That's really cool," reads the top-liked comment on YouTube. "Finally, a movie that follows up after a natural disaster," and "You never get sequels where you see what happens after the disaster. I'm in!" others wrote.
Another person excited to see the film? Baccarin, who feels like it was all a blur. "I am very curious to see it myself because I feel like it was a blur of exhaustion and running and crying, and much like the first, really," she told Collider.
The film hits theaters on January 9.
