It has been a little more than five years since Greenland hit the big screen and defied the odds by becoming a sizable hit despite being a disaster movie released in the middle of a pandemic. The riveting end-of-the-world thriller following Gerard Butler’s John Garrity and family as they attempt to reach an underground bunker has a new sequel Greenland 2: Migration on the way, and its director is still amazed people came out the first time around.
Ahead of Greenland 2: Migration’s debut on the 2026 movie schedule, I caught up with director Ric Roman Waugh and asked him what was going through his head five years ago when he had to release a disaster movie in the middle of the biggest public health crisis in a century: the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not going to lie, his first response caught me off guard:
