Greenland, a family fights for survival in the face of an extinction level event. A comet hurtling toward Earth was supposed to provide nothing more than the fireworks display of a lifetime. But the comet is soon revealed to be a planet killer that threatens billions across the globe. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan are among the very few to be selected for air transport to a top-secret safe haven, only to see their good fortune go horribly wrong when they’re separated minutes before takeoff.
John desperately searches for Allison and Nathan as Allison begins her own journey to rescue Nathan, who’s been kidnapped and is in need of medical attention. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garritys experience the best and worst inhumanity as they battle the increasing panic and lawlessness surrounding them.
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.
Krull. The 1983 science fiction saga, which he calls “a cheap version of
Lord of the Rings,” earned poor reviews and flopped at the box office. But its ambitious, anachronistic fantasy about a valiant prince leading his army against an evil creature made a deep impression. Its castles and sweeping landscapes nestled inside his teenage subconscious, and Butler awoke consumed with a desire to be an actor and to continue living in those worlds.
“I ve always been guided by dreams,” Butler tells me. “I knew I wanted to tell those stories to have some sense of renewed courage and excitement and curiosity, or a wish to be more of a warrior or hero.”
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