Paddington 3 is not the only sequel news coming from the Cannes Film Festival. STX has picked up the upcoming sequel to Gerard Butler’s Greenland. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that STX is paying in the region of $75 million to take worldwide rights to the film, carving out a deal with financier Anton and its domestic sale partner CAA Media Finance.
Anton, Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures (John Wick) and Butler and Alan Siegel’s G-BASE are producing the picture, which will see Butler reprise his role as structural engineer John Garrity, alongside co-star Morena Baccarin as Allison Garrity. Along with the casting, director Ric Roman Waugh will return to direct the sequel, based on a script by Greenland writer Chris Sparling.
The sequel will once again follow the
Garrity family, whose members survive a near-extinction level event when an interstellar comet hits the earth and must leave the safety of the Greenland bunker and embark on a perilous journey across the decimated frozen wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
