Well, we haven’t had a decent asteroid disaster movie in a good while now. Maybe that streak (sorry, had to do it) will end this summer.
Back in 2018, Thunder Road pictures announced that director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) and writers Chris Sparling and Mitchell LaFortune were developing a movie, Greenland, about a family’s survival after “cataclysmic natural disaster,” set to star a post-Infinity War Chris Evans. Well, the movie’s subject has remained the same, but…
On June 12, Thunder Road pictures will release the movie, now under the direction of Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling. Gerard Butler (Olympus Has Fallen, 300) is now in the lead, accompanied by Morena Baccarin (Deadpool, Firefly), Andrew Bachelor (King Bachelor’s Pad), Scott Glenn (The Leftovers, The Hunt for Red October), and David Denman (Logan Lucky).
The trailer shows scenes reminiscent of both Deep Impact and Armageddon, with the additional twist that Gerard Butler’s character is trying to get his family onto one of the planes headed to bunkers in Greenland. Will he succeed? Who knows? How exactly the movie will be released, given the current coronavirus disaster movie we’re all in right now, is also unknown. But maybe it will be a good distraction for all of us.
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