It is reported that Clarke's largest fragment, which is 9 miles wide, will impact Western Europe. As a shower of molten debris rains down, they take refuge below an underpass, then continue over the now abandoned border post to Canada. In Upstate New York, the family is caught in a traffic jam. The family has just enough time to reach Osgoode, so John and Allison decide to go while Dale elects to stay behind and gives them his truck. The family learn about a complex of underground bunkers near Thule Air Force Base in Greenland where the evacuees are being sent. Stealing a car, John reaches his father-in-law, Dale's house, and Nathan and Allison arrive shortly after.
The following morning, John learns that millions have perished in global impacts and that the largest fragment will make impact and the world will be wiped out in approximately 24 hours. Allison and Nathan are reunited shortly after at a nearby FEMA camp after Allison hitched a ride. At another airport, the Ventos attempt to pose as Nathan's parents, but are arrested when the soldiers quickly discover that Nathan is not theirs. However, another man attempts to take John's wristband and antagonises him over being born in a foreign country (John is originally Scottish), leading to a fight with causes the truck to crash and kill Colin, and John is forced to kill the man in self-defense. John hitches a ride on a truck where a young man named Colin befriends John and says they're headed to Osgoode, Ontario, where private planes are flying to Greenland, the apparent evacuation site. After getting medical supplies from a looted store, Allison and Nathan get a ride from Ralph and Judy Vento, only for Ralph to kidnap Nathan, to Judy's dismay, in order to use him and the wristbands to board a flight and leaving Allison at the side of the road in despair.
Returning to the car, John finds Allison's note saying she and Nathan are going to her father's home in Lexington, Kentucky. As John exits the base, a panicked mob breaks in, destroying several evacuation planes when gunfire ignites jet fuel. John returns and boards a plane but quickly jumps off upon realizing Allison and Nathan were probably left behind. When John goes to retrieve it, Allison is escorted off the base after Nathan's medical condition is discovered, disqualifying him. John, Allison, and Nathan pack up and flee, unable to take anyone else with them as they would be denied boarding.Īt Robins, Nathan's insulin gets left behind in the car.
John then receives a call with instructions to head to Robins Air Force Base for an evacuation flight, as Clarke is on a direct collision course with Earth and the entire planet will be bombarded with hundreds of fragments within the next two days in a cataclysmic event, with one fragment large enough to cause an extinction-level event. Previously expected to land in the ocean near Bermuda, the fragment instead strikes Tampa, Florida, vaporizing most of the state. He then returns home just as a comet fragment is seen entering the atmosphere on live television. While at the grocery store, John receives an automated DHS message saying that he and his family have been selected for emergency sheltering. He returns home to watch the near-earth passing of a recently-discovered interstellar comet named "Clarke", along with his family and neighbors. Structural engineer John Garrity lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his estranged wife, Allison, and their diabetic son, Nathan. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $52.3 million worldwide with a production budget of $35 million.Ī sequel, Greenland: Migration, is in development, with Waugh, Butler, Baccarin and Floyd all returning. It was still released theatrically in other territories, beginning with Belgium on July 29, 2020. The film was released domestically by STXfilms, through video on demand on December 18, 2020, and then played on HBO Max and Amazon Prime. Originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States, Greenland was delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also produced), Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, and Hope Davis, and follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth. Greenland is a 2020 American disaster thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling.
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