{"id":153391,"date":"2025-11-22T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153391\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:53:09","slug":"dwayne-johnson-and-emily-blunts-disney-sequel-has-been-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153391\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt\u2019s Disney sequel has been cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s bad news for anyone awaiting the sequel to 2021 flick Jungle Cruise, as stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt have revealed it is no longer on the cards – at least for now. The film was released just as cinemas reopened after COVID lockdowns, and was enough of a success<\/a> to warrant quick plans for a follow-up.<\/p>\n

Now, however, it seems those plans have sunk.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> as they promote their new team-up The Smashing Machine, Johnson and Blunt were asked if Jungle Cruise 2 is still en route, to which they are both quoted as replying: “I don’t think so.”<\/p>\n

Johnson explained: “I think when Disney came under new leadership, they just shifted coming out of COVID. COVID shifted our business in a lot of ways. <\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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Blunt quipped that bosses “did not want to set sail again, and that’s fine.”<\/p>\n

Johnson had previously expressed huge excitement at the prospect<\/a> of revisiting their characters, tweeting back in 2021: “ALL ABOARD… This is going to be FUN!”<\/p>\n

The film also starred \u00c9dgar Ram\u00edrez, Jesse Plemmons, Paul Giamatti and a much-discussed Jack Whitehall<\/a>, with direction from Jaume Collet-Serra.<\/p>\n

The Smashing Machine, meanwhile, is a very different affair, and stars Johnson as former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, with Blunt as his girlfriend Dawn Staples.<\/p>\n

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It has a solid 70% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, with the consensus saying: “Dwayne Johnson goes the distance with his transformative turn as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, a gritty biopic that sidesteps clich\u00e9 even at the expense of narrative satisfaction while still landing the dramatic body blows that count.”<\/p>\n

It had a successful premiere at the Venice International Film Festival back in September, where Johnson burst into tears<\/a> and writer-director Benny Safdie won the Silver Lion.<\/p>\n

Blunt will soon be back in comedy territory in the long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is due in May 2026 and released its teaser trailer<\/a> – with a first glimpse of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway – earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The new edition of Living Legends is here! Buy Ariana & Witches in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>; specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s bad news for anyone awaiting the sequel to 2021 flick Jungle Cruise, as stars Dwayne Johnson and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,1105,86632,1107,93,61,60,1135,86631],"class_list":{"0":"post-153391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-122c04d7-f408-4668-bab6-6129f672fa59","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-shorttitle-dwayne-johnsons-disney-sequel-has-been-cancelled"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}