![]() ![]() I wanna go to other worlds and explore local language, and Kandahar let me shoot in six different languages. "Look, we would love to have the ambitions of doing this next installment and then taking it from there, whether it did a global kind of a TV event… My thing that I'm super fascinated about as a filmmaker is, I grew up in the action heyday of, like, John Wu coming to America and making his movies, and Luc Besson coming here and doing his movies. Right now, though, the focus is solely on channeling that ambition into a film that incorporates a myriad of cultures and languages on a similar scale to the upcoming Kandahar: As more IP, like Butler's Has Fallen franchise which Waugh worked on, make the jump to television, the question was raised of whether a Greenland series about reconstruction would be better suited for such an ambitious premise. Exploring how not just the Garrity family, but various cultures and shelters react to the task of rebuilding is a big ask for one film though. "We're talking about trying to get this on pretty soon here," Waugh said. Work on Migration could finally get underway before long. Greenland: Migration Could Ramp Up Very Soon "We got lucky that we made it work, or it worked during a pandemic, and now we're on to the final chapter." ![]() "I wish we had an IP like Dunethat was already built in where, you know, you're gonna do a big two-parter, but we really needed the first movie to work," Waugh added. Waugh was beyond thankful the film succeeded as it created possibilities the project didn't have available without an established franchise. The scope seems to have widened significantly from Greenland's focus on the family as they race to get to safety before the end of the world. ![]() So, do you call it a sequel? Yeah, but to me, it's more of the final chapter of what this story has to say." So it's a beautiful kind of way to give you a conclusion of the Garritys and where they go. "It'll be about who survived, and how did they rebuild the earth when everything was completely burned to the ground. As previously detailed, the film will take place in the aftermath of the comet impacting Earth, but Waugh expects this sequel alone to be enough to wrap up the Garritys' story. "I wish I could say I was always gonna do a two-parter, but we wanted the first movie to work, but take you up to the extinction event," he said. He imagined Greenland would unfold over two parts from the get-go assuming the first part went over well. Success alone didn't drive Waugh to pursue a sequel, however. RELATED: Win Free Tickets to Our Early Screening of 'Kandahar' and Q&A With Director Ric Roman Waugh Waugh Always Envisioned Greenland as a Two-Part Project Waugh recalls seeing the success and being amazed at the willingness to embrace a fake disaster in the midst of a very real one: STX Films would eventually pick up the sequel from the Cannes virtual market for a seismic $75 million. Then we watched the pandemic unfold, and I shit my pants because I'm like, 'Who the hell is gonna watch a disaster movie in the middle of a disaster?'" The film overcame its dour release and unfitting premise to gross a respectable $52.3 million at the box office, though it really raked in money through VOD. "Nobody had even heard the word COVID when we filmed Greenland. "So if you remember, we made Greenland right before the pandemic, we had no idea what COVID was," Waugh said. Greenland had the unfortunate fate of releasing in December 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that Waugh is even in a place to consider a sequel to the film is a shock to him. Collider's Steve Weintraub sat down with Waugh ahead of Kandahar's release and received a major update on the status of Greenland: Migration. After that film hits theaters later this month, however, the director's eyes may turn toward bringing the post-apocalyptic film to life. Butler and Waugh have joined forces again but for Waugh's upcoming action thriller Kandahar rather than Migration. Since then, however, word has been quiet on the project. ![]()
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