San Andreas 2: Next Chapter (2025) picks up the action-packed disaster saga, once again starring Dwayne Johnson as Ray Gaines, a rescue helicopter pilot who saved his family in the original film. The teaser trailer opens with serene, sweeping views of California’s coastline at sunrise, but the calm is quickly interrupted by a deep rumbling sound beneath the earth. Ray’s voiceover begins, “We thought the worst was over. We were wrong.” The familiar earthquake sirens blare as the screen cuts to chaos erupting in various cities.
Ray, now living a quieter life with his wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario), has tried to move on from the harrowing events of the first film. But early in the trailer, we see him pulled back into action when Dr. Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti), the seismologist from the first film, warns of an unprecedented geological disaster. Hayes explains that a massive shift in the Pacific tectonic plate is threatening not just California, but the entire Pacific Rim—signaling the onset of a “mega-quake” that could destroy everything in its path.
The trailer flashes scenes of global devastation, showing cities like Tokyo, San Francisco, and Los Angeles being ravaged by a chain reaction of quakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions triggered by the seismic activity. Blake, now following in her father’s footsteps as a rescue pilot, is seen joining the rescue efforts, flying into crumbling cities and navigating dangerous aftershocks. Ray, though initially hesitant, is forced to come out of retirement to save his family and help with the global response efforts.
The action ramps up as Ray and his team embark on a mission to evacuate survivors from Los Angeles, now nearly destroyed by the relentless quakes. Epic sequences show collapsing skyscrapers, highways splitting open, and massive tidal waves crashing into the coastlines. Blake’s helicopter is seen flying dangerously close to a skyscraper as it tilts and falls, while Ray leads a daring ground-level rescue amidst fire, debris, and destruction.
In a particularly dramatic moment, Ray faces an impossible choice—whether to rescue a group of trapped civilians or go after Blake, whose helicopter has gone down near a collapsing dam. The trailer crescendos with scenes of explosions, roaring earthquakes, and Ray standing on the edge of a massive fault line, looking out at the devastation as his voiceover echoes, “We survived the last one. Now we fight for the future.”
The trailer ends with the screen fading to black and the title San Andreas 2: Next Chapter appearing, followed by the release date. The teaser promises an even more intense, global-scale disaster with heart-pounding action and emotional stakes, as Ray and Blake fight to save their family and humanity from nature’s most destructive forces yet.
