Disney has released a brand new trailer for Jungle Cruise, a film inspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in the lead and has metal band Metallica composing the official soundtrack. The new trailer promises a whole lot of fun at the heart of Amazon forest as our main leads try to find a plant that has tremendous medicinal properties and could change the face of medicines forever.
The trailer opens up with an action scene in which Dr. Lily Houghton (Blunt) and Frank Wolff (Johnson) try to escape some unidentified goons. Houghton makes her intentions clear of trying to find the medicinal plant for advancements for all mankind but there are a lot of dangers in their way, including wild animals, traps, monsters and Jesse Plemons as a German villain inside a submarine fitted in with torpedoes.
This summer, join Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt on the adventure of a lifetime.
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The trailer does give one a dejavu of Pirates of the Carribean and Mummy, but would make for an entertaining watch. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a script by Michael Green and Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, based on a story by John Norville and Josh Goldstein and Ficarra & Requa.
Jungle Cruise also stars Edgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, and Paul Giamatti. Jungle Cruise will have a hybrid release when it hits both theaters and Disney+ Premier Access on July 30.
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