The Rock could be getting ready to film one of the most important films of his career.
According to Mike Fleming Jr. and Justin Kroll of Deadline, a current pitch is being floated around Hollywood for a movie directed by Martin Scorsese that will feature Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Emily Blunt.
The movie will reportedly be written by Nick Bilton. Deadline provides the following description for this untitled film:
The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the island’s most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.
The Rock has worked with Emily Blunt on Disney’s The Jungle Cruise and the upcoming A24 film, Smashing Machine.
Stay tuned to WrestleZone for more information on this upcoming film for The Rock as it becomes available.
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