Brad Peyton

How do you top destroying the entire West Coast of the United States in an earthquake? (That wasn’t a rhetorical question. The guys who’ve been hired to write a sequel to San Andreas need to figure out a way to top destroying the entire West Coast and they’re looking for ideas...

It was way back in November we first heard former Game of Thrones star and future Aquaman Jason Momoa would be back to his bloody and intense self for new Netlix miniseries Frontier, and the first photos look … well, pretty bloody and intense. See for yourself in the first 2016 sneak peek!

Game of Thrones behind him, Jason Momoa’s film future seemed reasonably solid (and liquid) as the Aquaman to Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but that isn’t stopping the former Khal Drogo from taking on a new TV role. Momoa will apprently headline a new Netflix series titled Frontier, set against the backdrop of the 18th century fur trade.

The classics of this genre featured danger and destruction on a scale a guy could wrap his head around; a hijacked airplane, a skyscraper on fire, a capsized ocean liner filling with water. But when you live by spectacle, you die by it too. And so the disasters got bigger and bigger, one movie trying to top the next, until it became an arms race of planetary devastation. One movie blows up the White House, the next one washes it away in a tidal wave. Where do you go from there? An exploding tidal wave? At this point, if your disaster movie isn’t eradicating a large portion of the globe, don’t even waste your time.

It’s been a while since we had a really good disaster movie. Roland Emmerich was the last guy to really push the genre forward, but after freezing and then destroying the entire planet (in The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, respectively) there’s not really a lot of ground left to cover (and demolish). Next summer’s San Andreas will attempt to revive the disaster movie by juicing up an old favorite: the earthquake. This version, directed by Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’s Brad Peyton, features a tremor so huge it encompasses all of California from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It’s so big, Paul Giamatti gravely intones, it can even be felt on the East Coast. That’s a big quake.

Oh sure, you might think that living in California is one giant bed of fair weather roses, and it can be, but we Californians are always living in constant fear that the earth is going to hate us and in a flash, cause a massive earthquake that swallows us up whole. Thanks to New Line Cinema, we get to see a movie of how that would look called 'San Andreas 3D.'