Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Gerard Butler star in Greenland. (Courtesy of STXfilms)
17 Dec 2020 Greenland, a Gerard Butler movie directed by Ric Roman Waugh, somehow takes the chaos inspired by an impending extinction-level comet disaster into a movie about family, community and hope for the future.
The film, which is being released digitally this week, would have been an excellent night out at the movies in any year but its story of the fear, uncertainty and doubt that grips the country as a comet plows toward the planet somehow cuts more deeply after all the pandemic chaos of 2020.
The United States Air Force gave unusually strong support to the production, allowing the movie to film at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia and letting the director use real personnel in the scenes shot on base.