Gerard Butler as Jake looking scared and a tidal wave hitting a building in Geostorm
Summary As Gerard Butler forges ahead in the genre with a different property, Dean Devlin is candidly reflecting on his experience with Geostorm. Co-written, co-produced and directed by Devlin, frequent collaborator of Independence Day's Roland Emmerich, the 2017 movie is set in a world in which climate-controlling satellites have been created to combat a series of catastrophic natural disasters, only for a saboteur to get access to it and unleash mayhem.
We barely survived Geostorm 1. The truth of the matter is I was replaced on Geostorm. Someone else rewrote and redirected 60% of the movie. So it's not my film. If they ever want to go back and restore my version of the film, I'd be happy to do that, and I'd be happy to go do a sequel to that. Though Geostorm nearly continued the downfall of the disaster movie genre, there have been a few recent hits, one of which Butler himself led with 2020's Greenland. In addition to netting a Certified Fresh approval rating of 78% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie also became a financial success, grossing over $52 million amid its COVID-19-based release, though saw even further success on VOD, with reports of STX Films seeing upwards of $80 million in profit.
With a number of Butler's recent movies seeing both critical and commercial success in the years since Geostorm's release, not only can Greenland: Migration continue this success, but also further redeem him in the world of the disaster genre. That being said, even in the midst of this success, it does seem unlikely that a Geostorm sequel will ever happen, not only because of the 2017 movie's box office struggles, but also its critical failures.
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