Gerard Butler and his family run from post apocalyptic meteors in the new trailer for Greenland. Facing down disaster is of course nothing new for Butler, an actor who has made a career out of handling massive crises both natural and man-made.
Terrorists of course are Butler's most common enemy, thanks to his appearances in the action-packed Olympus Has Fallen and its sequels, culminating with 2019's Angel Has Fallen. Disaster also struck Butler and the rest of humanity in 2017's Geostorm, which saw climate-controlling satellites going crazy and threatening earth. There was also plenty of disaster-related action in 2016's Gods of Egypt, which saw Butler playing the god of darkness Set in a movie somewhat based on Egyptian mythology (though the film's real agenda was depicting wholly made-up mythical carnage).
There's nothing mythical about Butler in his upcoming movie Greenland, which sees the action hero in regular-guy mode, but it's not long before catastrophe of Biblical proportions begins raining down on Earth and Butler is once again forced into crisis management mode with his family's lives at stake. Joining Butler in the throwback disaster epic are Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, Andrew Bachelor and Joshua Mikel. See the new Greenland trailer (via STX Entertainment) in the space below along with a poster:
As the movie's official synopsis reads:
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
The trailer indeed does a good job setting up the movie's harrowing action, with its echoes of Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds. Like Cruise in that Spielberg alien invasion classic, Butler here is the average man who must do everything in his power to keep his family alive as the world is falling apart all around him. Though this time Butler may not be a highly trained Secret Service agent as in the Has Fallen series, he's obviously a man of great determination and resourcefulness, a mix of characteristics the actor happens to be very good at conveying on-screen.
Frankly, seeing Butler back in disaster mode feels a little overly-familiar, after the actor's long string of action movies filled with absurdly escalating levels of carnage. And of course there's the question of whether anyone really wants to watch a disaster movie given the current state of the world. Then again, disaster movies can often feel like a perfect form of perverse escapism during times of real life crisis, so perhaps Greenland is weirdly just what the doctor ordered. The movie is set to open in theaters on August 14, 2020, and it will be interesting to see how it performs at the box office considering all that is happening in the world.
Source: STX Entertainment