SAN ANDREAS Sequel in the Works with Dwayne Johnson Returning
Brace yourselves: New Line and Dwayne Johnson want to make the earth move for you one more time. The company has hired Neil Widener and Gavin James to write a sequel to
San Andreas, the Johnson-starring earthquake disaster movie that grossed over $473 million worldwide last year.
A good chunk of the team is due to return for the second installment. Johnson is swinging back to the sequel, as is producer Beau Flynn, producing via his Flynn Picture Co. banner. Brad Peyton, who directed the movie, is also returning.
The 2015 movie saw Johnson as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot who teams up with his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) to save their daughter (Alexandra Daddario) when a series of quakes crush Los Angeles and San Francisco. Gugino, Daddario and Paul Giamatti, who played a seismologist, are also expected to return. (Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore as well as Carlton Cuse wrote the original's script.)
Plot details for the new installment are being sheltered, but the sequel is expanding the disaster locales by going global, focusing on the infamous Ring of Fire. The ring circles the Pacific Ocean with fault lines and volcanoes and, according to scientists, is home to about 90 percent of the world's earthquakes.
'San Andreas' Sequel in the Works From Dwayne Johnson, New Line (Exclusive)
Christian Bale and Scott Cooper Reuniting for Western Drama HOSTILES
Christian Bale and Scott Cooper are teaming up for Western drama
Hostiles. Bale will star in the film which Cooper, who directed the actor in 2013's
Out of the Furnace, will helm. The plan is to shoot this summer.
The story centers on a Native American-hating soldier, nearing retirement, who is given one last assignment: to escort an Indian chief back to his Montana reservation. In the process, which includes coming across a young widow and fighting back attacks by Comanche tribes, he learns to respect the race he hates.
The screenplay was penned by late scribe Donald Stewart, who won an Oscar for co-writing the 1982 Jack Lemmon drama
Missing and also worked on
The Hunt for Red October (1990) and
Patriot Games (1992). Cooper rewrote the script.
Bale is riding the awards circuit with his nomination for best supporting actor for his work in
The Big Short. Cooper last directed the Johnny Depp crime drama
Black Mass.
Christian Bale and Director Scott Cooper Tackling Western Drama 'Hostiles'