Gerard Butler and His Family Seek Salvation in New Look at Survival Thriller ‘Greenland 2: Migration [Exclusive]

The week is drawing to a close, which means that so, too, is Collider’s Exclusive Winter Preview event. After a jam-packed slate full of sneak peeks, casting news, interviews, and more from over 90 new films and television series, we have just one more image to share, highlighting an appropriately massive sequel with some big names involved. This shot centers on the Garrity family, who will open the next chapter of their harrowing survival story in Greenland 2: Migration next year. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, the much-anticipated disaster thriller will see Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis exit the safety of their bunker to find a world in ruins and far more dangerous than the life they left behind. Nonetheless, they must navigate the new dangers that await them in the wastes left by the Clarke comet to find a safe place to begin their new life.

Our final image of the event shows the Garritys looking around at the world outside the bunker as they prepare to venture forth. Migration takes place five years after the cataclysm that first sent them fleeing into the shelter in Greenland, and much has changed for the survivors. John (Butler) and Allison’s (Baccarin) young son, Nathan (Davis), has now spent close to half of his life living within concrete walls without ever seeing the sun and has grown to despise it. If that weren’t enough, changes to the environment in the aftermath of the Clarke interstellar comet’s impact, like raging radiation storms, increasingly threaten those trying to get by in the shelters. The family ultimately decides that surviving isn’t living, and resolves to make the gruelling journey to France and to the Clarke crater, where, in theory, they should be protected from the new natural disasters and can start fresh. Their looks betray worry about how they’ll navigate the threats outside, but they’re more than ready to take on what’s ahead as a family.

After leading the original Greenland to surprising success during the COVID-19 era, Waugh returned to help Greenland 2: Migration from a script penned by the first film’s writer, Chris Sparling, and Waugh’s Kandahar collaborator Mitchell LaFortune. Both Waugh and Butler also served as producers on the natural disaster sequel, among a starry team including John Wick franchise producer Basil Iwanyk, alongside Alan Siegel, Sebastien Raybaud, John Zois, and Brendon Boyea. The rest of the cast is rounded out by Amber Rose Revah, Sophie Thompson, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, and William Abadie.

‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Will Wrap Up the Garritys’ Story

Migration has been a long time coming, first beginning development in 2021 after the original posted an impressive $52.3 million and was praised as one of the best disaster thrillers in recent memory. STX and Lionsgate are betting big on its success now that everyone is back in theaters, giving it a far more robust reported budget of $90 million to capture the full scale of Earth’s destruction. Waugh also envisions the new film as a final chapter of sorts to the Garritys’ journey. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub back in 2023, he revealed that he always hoped Greenland would be a two-part story about the calamity and the rebuild, with Migration covering that latter half. “It’ll be about who survived, and how did they rebuild the earth when everything was completely burned to the ground,” he said at the time. “So it’s a beautiful kind of way to give you a conclusion of the Garritys and where they go. 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.”

Greenland 2: Migration arrives in theaters on January 9, 2026. Check out our exclusive image above. Thank you for following along with our winter preview event throughout the week. Feel free to look back at all the write-ups featured on Collider over the past week and catch up on the entertainment that will define the next few months in theaters, on television, and on streaming.

Release Date

January 9, 2026

Director

Ric Roman Waugh

Writers

Chris Sparling, Mitchell LaFortune

Producers

Basil Iwanyk, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, John Zois, Sebastien Raybaud