Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson are coming back for a Jungle Cruise sequel

In addition to Johnson and Blunt reprising their roles as Captain Frank Wolff and Dr. Lily Houghton, respectively, screenwriter Michael Green is also going to return for Jungle Cruise 2 along with Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Director Jaume-Collet-Serra is also set to come back to man the helm, making this his third time working together with Johnson.

Jungle Cruise is easily one of the biggest surprises of the pandemic-stricken box office. Despite the circumstances, the film did relatively well. It opened to $35 million at the box office during its first weekend and raked in more than $30 million from Disney+ Premier Access.

As of the time of this writing, Jungle Cruise has pulled in $187 million from the global box office. It doesn't match up well when put against the film's $200 million budget, but it's not bad when you think about the other films with similarly large budgets that did worse.

With all that said, a Jungle Cruise sequel shouldn't be a surprise. If anything, the surprising thing here is what took Disney so long to confirm it. Disney should have announced the sequel before the film premiered to help generate even more hype. Of course, what's done is done. It's better to just focus on other things now, like where Wolff and Houghton will go next.

For now, The Rock fans will get a chance to see the affable Hollywood actor in action in another big-budget film this November on Netflix in Red Notice. The film will see him join an ensemble cast that includes Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. Meanwhile, Emily Blunt has had her hands full shooting the Amazon Prime Video series, The English.