Jungle Cruise
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt round one another with their new posters for Disney’sJungle Cruisemovie . This summertime , the pair will team up forJungle Cruise , a movie version of the beloved Disney theme park ride in which guests take a small 1930s riverboat down major rivers in Africa , Asia , and South America and take place by a variety of audio - animatronic animals , all while their police captain crevice groan - worthy jest . For the big screen , the Adventureland attraction has been re - imagined as , fittingly , aPirates of the Caribbean - style legal action - adventurefull of peril both everyday and supernatural in nature .
Directed by Jaume Collet - Serra(Non - Stop , The Shallows),Jungle Cruisestars Johnson as Frank , an Amazon riverboat captain who hoodwinks his customers by taking them on tours full of bastard threats like pretend hippos and actors masquerade as dangerous native . However , Frank gets more than he bargain for when he agrees to takeBritish scientist Lily Houghton ( Blunt)on a journeying in hunt of a mystical tree said to live somewhere in the jungle , only to find himself battling a rival sashay and finding out the hard way just how substantial the legends are . Now , with the film entering its next stage of marketing , Johnson and Blunt continue to do their part to sire ballyhoo for the picture , ahead of its release .
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In a novel video posted to Johnson’sTwitteraccount , he and Blunt troll another by revealingJungle Cruiseposters that comically favor one of them over the other . The magazine concludes by announcing the newJungle Cruisetrailer will overleap online tomorrow . you’re able to watch the video and check out the poster ( which are real ) below , ahead of the trailer andofficialofficial one - sheet ’s arrival .
This is n’t the first time Blunt and Johnson have promotedJungle Cruiseby playfully ribbing one another , either . The tendency started with aproduction video released back in 2018 , with Blunt and Johnson pretending to give one another a hard sentence and behave unsuitably . The pair likewise presenteddual lagger forJungle Cruiseat D23last summer , with one emphasizing Lily as the hero and the other focalise on Frank . The strategy has paid off so far , allowingtheJungle Cruisemarketingto make bigger waves than a more cut - and - dry promotional movement would ’ve done . It ’s also a prissy reflection of their characters ' dynamic in the movie ; as Johnson and Blunt have enjoin many times over by now , Frank and Lily have an oil colour and water kinship inspired by those from classical jungle action - adventures likeThe African QueenandRomancing the Stone .
reaction were generally positive tothe firstJungle Cruisetrailerwhen it dropped last fall . In addition to a brace of charismatic A - lister yucking it up , the trailer suggest at plenty of exciting set pieces in the film , along with some drear elements more in telephone line with collet chuck - Serra’searlier work as a repugnance - thriller theater director . ( Nothing too overstrung , of course ; this is still a Disney movie . ) On top of all that , it ’s been three years since the Mouse House free a tentpoles along these line - in the var. ofPirates of the Caribbean : numb manpower Tell No Tales- and audiences seem all the more eager for a fresh take on another beloved Disney topic park drive for it . We will see if that stay the case when the secondJungle Cruisetrailer launches on Tuesday .
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