Greenland 2 Migration (scifi disaster movie trailer).
When we last saw Gerard Butler’s rugged survivalist jawline in Greenland, he and family had just squeezed into an underground bunker while the Clarke comet gave Earth a makeover only Michael Bay could love. Cut to five years later in Greenland 2: Migration, and it turns out you can’t live on tinned beans and nuclear bunker chic forever. So, Butler, Morena Baccarin, and their newly re-cast son (now Roman Griffin Davis, because apparently surviving the apocalypse ages you into a different actor) must venture out across the blasted wastelands of Europe to find a new home. Think The Sound of Music, only with fewer songs and more ash clouds.
Director Ric Roman Waugh is back at the helm, no doubt still wondering how Gerard Butler keeps ending up in these end-of-the-world scenarios. Volcanoes (Geostorm), comets (Greenland), White House takeovers (Olympus Has Fallen)—the man is less an actor, more a one-man insurance liability. Butler should really consider a franchise crossover where every disaster finally catches up with him in one film, just to save everyone time.
The trailer teases your classic post-apocalyptic buffet: ruined cities, desperate survivors, uniformed soldiers insisting they’re still in charge, and Butler looking like the sort of man who’s had enough of this nonsense but will nonetheless carry everyone else through it on his broad, sooty shoulders. Morena Baccarin returns to provide both emotional heft and the occasional, “John, don’t do the incredibly reckless thing you’re about to do.” Spoiler: he does it anyway.
The Garritys aren’t just walking out into sunshine, mind you. The world is now a European wasteland—which means instead of just dodging meteor craters, they’ll also be facing the uniquely continental apocalypse experience: collapsed motorways, rationed espressos, and marauding bands of angry ex-Eurovision contestants. The fact the film shot in Iceland, Hampshire, and Shinfield Studios suggests the post-comet world mostly looks like a mix between frozen wastelands and southern England on a rainy Tuesday. Authentic, then.
And let’s not forget Nathan, the diabetic son, whose condition was already a major ticking clock in the first film. Post-apocalypse Europe isn’t exactly brimming with pharmacies, so expect lots of tense, “We need to find insulin before sundown!” sequences. It’s a bold move—after all, the only thing scarier than asteroid strikes is the British NHS appointment backlog in 2026.
If Greenland was about surviving the initial catastrophe, Migration is about what comes after: how do you rebuild in a world where Netflix has probably stopped updating, Deliveroo no longer delivers, and your mobile signal is permanently stuck on “searching”? As bleak as that sounds, we all know why we’re here: to watch Gerard Butler wrestle Europe back into submission, one crumbling monument at a time.
Here at SFcrowsnest, we applaud this sequel for daring to ask the hard questions. Questions like: can Butler’s structural engineering skills rebuild civilisation before the credits roll? Will Baccarin finally get to do more than look concerned and noble? And most importantly—when the end of the world arrives, will there be subtitles in multiple languages, or do we all just shout “run” in unison?
Greenland 2: Migration crashes into cinemas January 2026. Stock up on canned goods, pack your thermal socks, and practise looking stoic while trudging through ash. Gerard’s got this.
