Crawl 2: Alligators Take Over New York City

Crawl 2: Alligators Take Over New York City

Paramount has officially announced the release of Crawl 2 in 2027, with a major shift in location.

The original Crawl took place in the flooded neighborhoods of Florida. In the sequel, the production shifts to New York City.

A new cast of characters, including Emily Rudd and Mason Gooding, are stuck in a post-hurricane nightmare where the city is literally upside down and threatening, otherworldly creatures are lurking in every corner.

Fans of the first installment are looking forward to seeing Alexandre Aja (who directed the first film) return behind the camera to direct Emily Rudd and other survivors as they battle alligators in the Big Apple.

Crawl 2 gets a wide release in the U.S. on July 16, 2027.

Emily Rudd and Mason Gooding will lead the cast of Crawl 2.

Rudd is one of the two principal performers announced for the sequel.

Paramount has yet to release an official bio for the role.

Until the studio releases character details for Rudd, it will not be possible to say what profession, if any, she will have in relation to the characters from the first film.

What we know is that she will be part of the core group of characters dealing with the disaster in New York.

For the audience searching for information on the Cocoflix app, the most important detail at this point is the Crawl 2 production team has focused on creating a new cast to tell a new story rather than bring back the same cast to replicate the first film.

Rudd is a major part of this new cast and story.

Gooding is also a principal cast member. Like Rudd, his character details have yet to be released.

The film's production team has decided to remain secret the relationships between the characters for a survival thriller.

It's safe to say the sequel will focus on a new group of people dealing with a extreme situation in New York rather than concentrating on the people that survived the first film.

Aja has signed on to direct the sequel.

It directly connects the 2019 film with Crawl 2 in terms of the creative team and cast.

{**}Aja also receives a screenplay credit with Jason Harry Pagan, Andrew Deutschman and Gregory Levasseur.

Craig J. Flores, Sam Raimi and Aja are producers. Levasseur and Zainab Azizi are executive producers.

With Sam Raimi on board, it seems Paramount wants Crawl 2 to branch out from the settings of the first film while still retaining the core elements of survival.

As of now, production is still set to be live-action, and The Numbers classifies the project as Contemporary Survival Horror, based on an original screenplay.

The Hurricane Creates a Wider Disaster

A major hurricane is a key element to the plot of the sequel.

According to Movie Insider, the film takes place after a hurricane and when the water levels recede, alligators start appearing in the streets and sewers of New York City.

A different production synopsis states that the central park zoo animals also escape because of the storm and create other dangers for the survivors.

Paramount hasn't released an official synopsis that encompasses all of the aforementioned details, so for the time being, it's safer to keep the established details of the film separate from details that can potentially change.

We know that Crawl 2 is about a combination of events that create a major urban disaster, plus confronting, and surviving against the threats of the animal kingdom.

Final runtime and rating details have not been announced.

Crawl 2 has a release date set for July 16, 2027 in the United States.

Both the Numbers and Box Office Mojo confirm the date.

Filming started in September 2026, and there was filming in Budapest, Hungary.

As with the first Crawl, the sequel is based in the idea of survival horror; however, around it is almost completely different.

There is an almost entirely new cast. Also new are larger cityscapes and a different kind of storm.

Instead of having the survivors (of the first film) dealing with rising floodwaters and trying to escape to safety, Crawl 2 takes that idea and explodes it citywide.

Nyc is made to accommodate millions of people a day. After a major storm, many of the places designed to help the city operate (i.e. the city's infrastructure) can become very dangerous to people (i.e. elevated train tracks, etc.).