Gerard Butler disaster films ranked, Greenland tops the list

Movieweb ranked Gerard Butler's disaster movies, placing Greenland (2020) at No. 1, Reign of Fire (2002) at No. 2, Greenland 2: Migration (2026) at No. 3 and Geostorm (2017) at No. 4.

The piece says the ranking is driven by disaster‑genre criteria — large stakes and sympathetic human characters. Greenland is praised for its intense, character‑driven depiction of a comet strike and the narrow hope of a bunker, while Reign of Fire is noted for its distinctive dragon apocalypse and a cast that includes Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. Greenland 2, which the article says picks up 5 years after a comet destroyed most of the world and its inhabitants, returns Morena Baccarin and director Ric Roman Waugh and delivers migration and survival thrills but is judged to feel more like a mandatory sequel; Geostorm is criticized for a weak story despite epic destruction and is noted as having an 18% Rotten Tomatoes score.

According to the report, Greenland 2 was released January 9, 2026, with a 98‑minute runtime, directed by Ric Roman Waugh, written by Chris Sparling and Mitchell LaFortune, and produced by Basil Iwanyk, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, John Zois, Sebastien Raybaud and Brendon Boyea; it is listed as a sequel to Greenland.

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Culture, Gerard Butler, Greenland, Geostorm, Ric Roman Waugh