Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt starred in 2021’s Jungle Cruise, and there were rumors that a sequel was in development.
However, in a new interview, the stars of the film based on the Disneyland attraction have seemingly confirmed that a follow-up might not be happening.
“I don’t think so,” Johnson and Blunt told EW’s The Awardist podcast on the potential sequel.
The Black Adam star added, “I think when Disney came under new leadership, they just shifted coming out of COVID. COVID shifted our business in a lot of ways. I think they looked at that property and thought, we did it once, not sure if we should revisit it again. Despite whether or not our chemistry was great.”
Blunt also added that “they did not want to set sail again, and that’s fine.”
The film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, is based on the Disney theme park attraction that opened in July 1955 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Alongside Johnson and Blunt, the film also starred Édgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti.
Jungle Cruise opened simultaneously in theaters and digitally on July 30, 2021. The film went on to gross over $220M with a reported budget of $200M.
The film follows a captain of a small riverboat who takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life while competing against a German expedition and cursed conquistadores.
The Jungle Cruise attraction is also featured in Florida’s Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
