Disney's Jungle Cruise Movie Delayed A Whole Year

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Disney has delayed its Jungle Cruise movie by a year to Summer 2021. As everyone is well aware, the coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous impact on the entertainment industry in a very short amount of time. Over the last couple weeks alone, numerous films planned for release in March, April, May, June, or even early July have been either indefinitely delayed or postponed to later this year or 2021 over concerns about the virus. Marvel Studios has even gone so far as to change its entire Phase 4 MCU movie slate, beginning with Black Widow and Eternals.

Among the Summer 2020 films that've been hanging onto their release date so far is Jungle Cruise, a big screen adaptation of the popular Disney theme park ride starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Johnson recently acknowledged it was a real possibility the movie would be delayed because of all the other release date changes of late, even if theaters have reopened for business by the time its original spot in late July rolls around. Unsurprisingly, that's exactly what happened today.

In a press release, Disney announced sweeping changes to its release slate across the board on through to 2022. As a result, Jungle Cruise has moved back a whole year to July 30, 2021, with its most recent release date (July 24, 2020) going to the studio's live-action Mulan instead. The latter was previously scheduled to open in late March this year, but was pulled shortly before then when the COVID-19 outbreak took a turn for the worse.


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