Greenland: Migration - Cast, Story & Everything We Know About The Disaster Movie Sequel (2024)

After the unexpected success of Greenland, a sequel, Greenland: Migration, has been greenlit, with some cast and story details already confirmed. In the film, skyscraper engineer John Garrity (Gerard Butler) races across the country with his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) in a feverish attempt to reach safety before the imminent impact of an extinction-level comet fragment. One of the first movies to forgo a domestic theatrical release in favor of video-on-demand during the pandemic, Greenland found great success with at-home rentals.

Its cathartic focus on an escapist disaster made it an international box-office hit, grossing $52 million (via Box Office Mojo). The film also received favorable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to its thoughtful approach to disaster cinema that focused more on the human aspect of an extinction event. It’s rare for a disaster movie to get a sequel, and the second film tends to depict the implausible re-occurrence of the same cataclysmic event shown in the original. Greenland: Migration stands to buck this trend by continuing the focus on the human response to the disaster.

Greenland: Migration Latest News

Filming Wraps On The Disaster Sequel

More than half a year after the last major update concerning the sequel, the latest news confirms that filming has wrapped on Greenland: Migration. The news came directly from producer Sébastien Raybaud who revealed that the sequel actually wrapped in July 2024 to little fanfare. Though he didn't offer much by way of a timeline update for Migration (which is likely deep into post-production), he did tease the possibility of another sequel on the horizon.

Read Raybaud's comments below:

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.

Greenland: Migration Is Confirmed

The Sequel Is On The Way

Shortly after the success of Greenland, a sequel was announced and promptly had its distribution rights acquired by production company STX. The company distributed Greenland and paid a whopping $75 million for its sequel at the Cannes Virtual Market, signaling a considerable amount of faith in the film’s projected success. Even among the uncertain future of STX’s upcoming projects due to its impending acquisition by The Najafi Companies, STX has sought to secure the stability of Greenland: Migration by creating a subsidiary company to protect the film’s rights.

Greenland: Migration Production Status

The Sequel Wrapped Filming In July 2024

Details about the long-awaited disaster sequel have been scant since it was first announced in 2021, but now it is known that cameras began rolling in April 2024. This is great news for a movie that has been mired in delays for nearly half a decade, and it seems to suggest that Greenland: Migration will arrive sometime in 2025. With filming wrapped in July 2024, that predicted release window is entirely possible.

Greenland: Migration Cast

Morena Baccarin and Gerard Butler Return For The Sequel

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin will return for Greenland: Migration in the roles of John and Allison Garrity. While the sequel will certainly see the return of their son, Nathan, it remains to be seen whether Roger Dale Floyd will once again play him. Greenland: Migration will take place five to seven years after the original film, and the space of time between movies might mean Floyd will look old enough. It is highly unlikely that much of the supporting cast will return due to the time jump and location change.

The confirmed cast of Greenland: Migration includes:

Actor	Greenland: Migration Role
Gerard Butler	John Garrity
Morena Baccarin	Allison Garrity

Greenland: Migration Story Details

The Garrity Family Searches For A New Home

As the title suggests, Greenland: Migration will follow the Garrity family and other survivors as they travel across Europe in hopes of finding a new home. Greenland ended with the hopeful chorus of numerous voices chiming in on the radio, having survived the impact. According to director Ric Roman Waugh, “It'll be about who survived, and how did they rebuild the Earth".

Greenland: Migration investigates the aftermath of the disaster. Waugh says, “These people have been imprisoned underground. What does that do to the human psyche?” Particularly, Waugh seems interested in focusing on Nathan Garrity’s development, continuing, “A little boy that was eight years old […] what is his life as a teenager when he's known nothing else”. Once again, it seems that family and complex humanity are at the forefront of Waugh’s mind in Greenland: Migration.

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Greenland: Migration is the sequel to the 2020 disaster movie starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin, directed by Ric Roman Waugh. The Garrity family continues their journey to safety as an extinction-level event looms overhead. The film is set to be the second and final film in the series.

Director

Ric Roman Waugh

Studio(s)

Anton , CineMachine Media Works , G-BASE , Thunder Road Pictures

Distributor(s)

Lionsgate

Writers

Chris Sparling

Cast

Gerard Butler , Morena Baccarin , Roger Dale Floyd

prequel(s)

Greenland