Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has become a major power player in Hollywood over the past decade and a half, carving out a name for himself in thrillers and big-budget action movies. After making his directorial debut in the 2005 horror film House of Wax, the skilled filmmaker has continued to increase the size, scale, and scope of his productions. He further solidified his place as a go-to Hollywood director with his continued working relationships with big-name stars like Dwayne Johnson and Liam Neeson. 55u6p

With the success of the first installment, Jungle Cruise 2seems like a foregone conclusion, but will the action/adventure film ever happen? Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt, Jungle Cruise arrived in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access in July 2021 after a year-long delay due to the pandemic. The film, which is based on the Disney theme park ride, may have wrapped up its main story, but the movie has proven popular and successful enough to warrant another trip around the river bend.

Jungle Cruise's piranha scenes get put under the microscope by a survival expert, and the Dwayne Johnson Disney movie is actually fairly accurate. Released in 2021, Jungle Cruise is based on the Walt Disney theme park ride, with Johnson starring as captain Frank Wolff, who ferries Emily Blunt's Lily Houghton through the Amazon in search of the Tree of Life. The film's reviews were somewhat mixed and it underperformed at the box office, but Jungle Cruise 2 was announced in August 2021.

Jungle Cruise's jaguar scenes get put under the microscope by mountain lion expert Mark Elbroch, and the movie doesn't do a lot right. Based on the Disney theme park attraction of the same name, director Jaume Collet-Serra's Jungle Cruise stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. The film features a jaguar named Proxima, who Johnson's character has tamed, with one scene featuring the two putting on a fight in order to impress Blunt's character.

The reception to 2023's Haunted Mansion remake has not been favorable, and it means that there are only two Disney movies based on rides to get Fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie studio has been in the business of turning their most recognizable theme park rides from Disneyland into movies for nearly 30 years now. The 2023 Haunted Mansion movie is the 12th such Disney movie based on rides that have been made during that time, with it being a remake of the 2003 adaptation starring Eddie Murphy.

While the Pirates of the Caribbean series is still going, Disney already attempted to replace Jack Sparrow’s franchise with 2021’s Jungle Cruise. When The Curse of the Black Pearl arrived in cinemas in 2003, few industry commentators could have predicted just how successful the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise would become in the years that followed. With a cast of largely unknown rising stars such as Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley, The Curse of the Black Pearl was an entry into the infamously unreliable swashbuckling adventure sub-genre (which was home to major financial flops such as 1982’s Pirates and 1995’s Cut-throat Island).

While the Pirates of the Caribbean 6 production was never destined to be smooth sailing for the seafaring adventure franchise, the failure of Jungle Cruise could have held up the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel even further. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies were not expected to be a box-office juggernaut before the release of The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003. While producers were obviously optimistic about the project’s potential, the historically terrible box-office performance of swashbuckling movies cast a long shadow over the movie.

"Do you really think my work is extraordinary," Frank asks Lily in Jungle Cruise, and the audience can absolutely say that it is as he leads them on an adventure through the Amazon to discover an immortal myth. Jungle Cruise is one of the rare movies inspired by a theme park attraction that absolutely works.

With its exotic locales, lost treasure, and beautiful explorers, The Lost City has all of the components of a rip-roaring contribution to the action-adventure genre. Starring Sandra Bullock as Loretta Sage, a novelist thrown into a story more exciting than her latest book, Channing Tatum as Alan Caprison, the vapid cover model who comes to her rescue, and Daniel Radcliffe, the billionaire mastermind pulling all the strings, the movie has no shortage of charm, romance, and humor.

After the successful release of Disney's Jungle Cruise, rumors are understandably circulating about the mysteriously canceled Tom Hanks version of the movie. First mooted back in 2011, the movie would have seen Hanks team up with long-time acting collaborator Tim Allen for a project that many believed had the potential to be the next Pirates of the Caribbean. However, despite the initial enthusiasm for the project, things quickly went downhill.