Gerard Butler: Greenland is a disaster film with a hopeful message
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Gerard Butler can now be seen in the action picture, Greenland. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Morena Baccarin arrives on the red carpet at the screening of Framing John DeLorean in 2019 in New York City. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) Gerard Butler said the script for Greenland wasn t like any other disaster-action movie he had ever read because it realistically showed how high the stakes were through the eyes of one imperiled family. It just sucked me into this world, the 51-year-old Scottish actor told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
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If the disaster genre is to be believed, global cataclysms are nothing short of free couples therapy and family counseling. Why spend all that time trying to repair your marriage or become a better parent to your children when a couple days in the face of certain annihilation from alien invaders, asteroids, or extreme inclement weather will do the trick?
Greenland is, in this respect no different. Pandemic be damned, our annual paint-by-numbers Gerard Butler movie is here, and if Paisley’s favorite son isn’t going to save the president or the planet, he’s at least going to save his family.
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh.
Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, Merrin Dungey, Holt McCallany, Gary Weeks, Tracey Bonner, Joshua Mikel, Cate Jones, Mike Gassaway, Anissa Matlock, Randall Archer, Scott Poythress, Claire Bronson, and Madison Johnson.
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Given the history of recent Gerard Butler B-grade action flicks I half expected that
Greenland would see the scruffy and imposing physical specimen of an actor find some way to take out the comet by either screaming at it or punching it in a violent drunken rage (like say his
Den of Thieves character or just about anyone he plays). And while that does sound, for better or worse, entertaining, director Ric Roman Waugh (a regular collaborator of these Gerard Butler doomsday spectacles) has decided to use the comet as more of a framing device than anything, focusing on how such a cataclysmic scenario would bring out the worst traits of society sim
Review: ‘Greenland’ delivers a Giant Comet 2020, extinction-level event [Los Angeles Times]
Ever seen one of those “Giant Comet 2020” joke political bumper stickers? That’s essentially the premise of “Greenland,” a disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler, helmed by his “Angel Has Fallen” director Ric Roman Waugh. The title and premise conjure up visions of heaving CGI glaciers, “Day After Tomorrow”-style catastrophically climate-changed weather events, and one man who tries to stop them all. But the script, by Chris Sparling, is refreshingly scaled to human size, and after living through the events of 2020, the chaos and capriciousness of human decision-making during the apocalypse depicted in “Greenland” is all too plausible.
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