Greenland is a 2020 American disaster film directed by Ric Roman Waugh, from a screenplay by Chris Sparling. It stars Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Holt McCallany, and Scott Glenn. The story follows an estranged family that tries to survive an extinction-level event. The film was first released on July 29, 2020, in Belgium, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 25, 2020, by STX Entertainment.
In May 2018, Chris Evans joined the cast of the film, with Neill Blomkamp directing from a screenplay by Chris Sparling. In February 2019, it was announced Blomkamp would no longer direct the film. That same month, Ric Roman Waugh joined the project as director, with Gerard Butler being added to the cast of the film, replacing Blomkamp and Evans respectively, with Butler producing under his G-Base banner.
In June 2019, Morena Baccarin joined the cast of the film. In July 2019, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, and Roger Dale Floyd also joined, as did David Denman, in August. Principal photography began in June 2019 and wrapped up on August 16 of the same year in Atlanta. David Buckley, who previously worked with Waugh on Angel Has Fallen, composed the film's score.
John Garrity is a successful Scottish builder who lives in the Southern part of the United States. John lives together with his wife Allison and their young son, Nathan, who is diabetic. A large comet called Clarke is flying near Earth while John is hosting a barbecue for his family and neighbors to celebrate.
After being sent by Allison to the store to pick up some more hot dog buns. He receives a text from the government on his phone, followed by an automated phone call, John and Nathan have been selected to be evacuated. Outside of the store to their surprise, the father and son see a fleet Of the U.S. Military's C5 - Galaxy transport planes flying North.
John and Nathan return home and start watching Clarke on tv, but something is wrong and the news-feed cuts to a fragment of Clarke instead of hitting a nearby city in Southern Florida. Meanwhile, the message John received on his phone earlier now appears on the family tv.
The family's neighbors become angry and distressed, but John says its nothing, but calls his wife outside and tells her to pack their bags. It's later revealed that Clarke is a much larger comet and is a so-called "planet-killer", and when it hits, all life on Earth will be destroyed. John and his family leave their neighborhood until their neighbor tries to stop them, begging them to take their little girl with them.
John refuses to say that she would be rejected, once they reach the evacuation-site. The family drives off and reaches the evacuation site, an airbase filled with people. Before leaving the car, Nathan drops his insulin. John and their family are allowed to enter the base to take part in the evac.
While there are being processed, we see plane after plane taking off. Allison realizes that they don't have Nathan's insulin, so John goes outside to search for it. Meanwhile, an officer handling the evacuation discovers that Nathan has an insulin pump, and Allison is told that her son cannot be part of the evacuation program.
They are then escorted off from the base, while John is outside. Allison tries to text John on her phone, but the network is busy. John then returns to the base with the insulin but is then told his wife and son have been rejected from the program due to Nathan being diabetic. The family is then separated for the most part of the film.
Following John's side of the film, he learns that all the planes are going to the Thule airbase in Greenland, where there is a large bunker complex that is housing the evacuated people. The family later re-unites at the house of Allison's father and reflect at what brought them to this point. John offers her father to go with them to Canada, where they're gonna try finding a plane to bring them to Greenland.
But he refuses and stays behind. We then see a large fragment hit the area where Allison's father lives followed by a firestorm, and he is most likely killed. The family then enters Canada after surviving a smaller storm of Clarke's fragment hitting the freeway. The family finds a small airport and boards a plane with other refugees. The plane reaches Greenland but crashes to the now hopeless weather killing the pilots.
The small band of refugees runs across the frozen land, and reach Thule. They are allowed to enter the bunkers while we hear the countdown, and then, Clarke hits. 9 months later, the bunker opens, and the Earth is now a barren wasteland. But then two small birds appear, and the people cheer. The film ends with all the destroyed cities from the aftermath, but people from all over the world are shown to have survived, acknowledging their existence via short-wave radio transmissions.
Greenland Cast
- Gerard Butler as John Garrity
- Morena Baccarin as Allison Garrity
- David Denman as Ralph Vento
- Hope Davis as Judy Vento
- Holt McCallany as Tom
- Scott Glenn as Dale
- Andrew Bachelor as Colin
- Roger Dale Floyd as Nathan Garrity
- Merrin Dungey as Major Breen
- Gary Weeks as Thomas
- Randal Gonzalez as Bobby
- Claire Bronson as Debra
Greenland Release Date
In March 2019, STX Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film. It was originally scheduled to be theatrically released on June 12, 2020, but was delayed to July 30, 2020, and then August 14, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its domestic release was again delayed on July 24, moving to September 25, 2020. The film's release schedule includes Belgium (July 29), France (August 5), and Scandinavia (August 12).
Greenland Trailer
Greenland Crew
Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Produced by: Gerard Butler, Basil Iwanyk, Sebastien Raybaud, Alan Siegel
Written by: Chris Sparling
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Holt McCallany, Scott Glenn
Music by: David Buckley
Cinematography: Dana Gonzales
Edited by: Gabriel Fleming
Production companies: Thunder Road Films, G-BASE, Anton, Riverstone Pictures
Distributed by: STX Entertainment
Release date: July 29, 2020 (Belgium), September 25, 2020 (United States)
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $34 million
Tag As: Box office, Film Festivals
Tag As: Box office, Film Festivals
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