Dwayne Johnson To Star In ALPHA SQUAD SEVEN

DreamWorks Pictures is teaming with San Andreas star Dwayne Johnson for a new sci-fi action comedy titled Alpha Squad Seven. The Hollywood Reporter says that Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer are behind the pitch, which has Beau Flynn producing via his FlynnPictureCo. along with Johnson, who will produce through his 7 Bucks Productions.

The trade says that plot details are being kept under wraps, though the project is described as a four-quadrant action-comedy adventure set in space.

Dany Garcia of the Garcia Companies will executive produce and Hiram Garcia will associate produce through 7 Bucks Productions.

Johnson is currently shooting the New Line comedy Central Intelligence opposite Kevin Hart, while the Johnson-starring Ballers premieres on HBO on June 21. He also has the animated Disney film Moana coming and will play Black Adam in Shazam.

Source: THR

Dwayne Johnson Talks Why He Wanted To Play BLACK ADAM

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Talking to Digital Spy in the video interview above to promote Furious 7, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson reveals why he decided to choose the role of Black Adam over Shazam in the 2019 movie. “Because I felt ultimately, and this is with all due respect to Shazam/Billy Batson, it’s a mythology that I love; it’s been with me for almost ten years now; what made me choose Black Adam? I just felt Black Adam was inherently more interesting to me because I felt there were more layers to Black Adam starting out as a slave and then ultimately becoming the anti-hero who we enjoy today.” To hear even more from the actor (including how fans influenced his decision), keep watching the video.

Source: Digital Spy

Dwayne Johnson Gives SHAZAM Casting And Script Updates!

Talking to MTV News to promote the release of Furious 7, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was asked how work is progressing on the highly anticipated DC Comics movie which is currently scheduled to be released in 2019. “No, we haven’t picked a Shazam yet, and we have been working on the script. Half the scripts [have] already come in. Fantastic, very excited about it. And what I’m really excited about is — because, again, I’ve lived with this character, and this opportunity for almost 10 years now, so it’s like, in my DNA! I’m like a little kid, and it’s the opportunity to create his journey, but that journey has to start out properly.” The actor then went on to talk more about his portrayal of his villainous character. “And starting off properly is [Black Adam] not being a hero. That’s got to be earned, so he starts off as a slave. And he’s pissed off, and people are going to pay. But eventually down the line he’ll become an anti-hero.”

Source: MTV News

The Rock’s BLACK ADAM Might Show Up In JUSTICE LEAGUE

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is currently on the press tour for Universal’s Furious 7, and while he’s primarily answering questions about the upcoming action sequel, the good folks over at IGN managed to slip him a quick query about his upcoming role as Black Adam and whether or not he could potentially show up and/or join the Justice League. Check out his answer in the video below and if the video doesn’t work for you, read the transcript that follows:

IGN: We are so excited to see Black Adam as this anti-hero imagining there’s going to be this antagonistic relationship with Shazam, but I’m wondering, are you interested in exploring his heroic side down the line. Do you think that he could eventually join the Justice League?

Dwyane ‘The Rock’ Johnson: I think so, and I think you always want to leave that creatively open, that he could join the Justice League and I think… that’s the fun part of creating this character right now and everybody involved, from the studio, from New Line, to Warner Bros as well, to the writer, our producing partners. You want to… you definitely want to engage in his heroic side, but that has to be earned and with the mythology of Black Adam starting off as a slave, because when you start off as a slave, just inherently, there’s things in your DNA that piss you off. And that’s the bottomline, so I think we have to respect and pay homage to the true mythology and then the heroic side will come down the line, but I think it’s important and we all feel it’s important and I believe the fans at IGN feel it’s important to make sure the homage is paid at the beginning because then you have a stronger foundation to stand on, and so he will become an anti-hero, but at first… daddy’s got to go to work.

Now, let’s recap a bit, Shazam! is expected to hit theaters April 5, 2019, so the earliest we would theoretically see Johnson suited up as Black Adam would be sometime in 2018 when the film kicks off production. However, if he debuted as one of the villains, presuming that there are multiple villains, in Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Part One, which is set to arrive November 17, 2017, we could see him as the character as early as next year when that film begins production. This could potentially mean a showdown between him and Henry Cavill’s Superman might happen sooner than later.

If none of the above comes to fruition, Shazam! does arrive two months before Justice League: Part Two, which releases June 14, 2019, so if he doesn’t appear in the first part, there is always a good chance he could appear in the second.

Source: IGN

Dwayne Johnson Talks Black Adam In Shazam; DC Connected Universe

Given all of the other superhero movies coming out in the next few years, it’s easy to forget that a live-action version of Shazam is on the way and that Dwayne Johnson will be playing the antagonist Black Adam. Speaking with Total Film (via Games Radar), Johnson opened up about what he hopes to achieve with the character in the film.

“I think Black Adam is going to grow into becoming an anti-hero,” Johnson said. “It’s all written within the spirit of respecting and paying homage to the comics. As we know, Black Adam started out as a slave. When he’s given the powers, he utilised them. Then in the wake of his powers, tragedy strikes, which turns his sentiment and tone in terms of psychology.”

And as if there was any doubt, Johnson confirmed that the Shazam feature will be tied into the larger DC Cinematic Universe, and that we may see him go up against Henry Cavill’s Superman and Ben Affleck’s Batman.

“It was all agreed that the worlds are all interconnected… One day you will see Black Adam go at it with Superman or Batman or any of the DC characters. But that said, there’s a great independence to Black Adam from the DC world, allowing us to inject, not only viciousness, but also winking humour.”

Jack the Giant Slayer scribe Darren Lemke is currently penning the script for Shazam, which is set to be released April 5, 2019, just a month before Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War Part II. The film tells the story of teenager Billy Batson, who transforms into the superhero when he says the magic word “Shazam!”

Source: Total Film(GamesRadar)

G.I.JOE 3: D.J. Caruso in Talks to Direct ‘G.I. Joe 3’ Plus The Rock Returning?

D.J. Caruso, who directed the Shia LaBeouf hits Disturbia and Eagle Eye, is in talks to direct the third installment in Hasbro’s and Paramount’s G.I. Joe franchise.

Jon M. Chu, who helmed the last Joe movie, 2013’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, was at one time attached to the third film, but left to direct the Jem and the Holograms movie. Martin Campbell’s name surfaced in the fall, but his early meetings never progressed to a deal.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner
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It’s unclear which actors from the previous movie would return, but Dwayne Johnson is attached to return as Roadblock. Before a deal can be made, Caruso and Johnson need to have a tete-a-tete.

The G.I. Joe films has been a solid franchise performer for Paramount. G.I. Joe: Retaliation grossed $375.7 million worldwide. 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which was directed by Stephen Sommers, made $302.5 million.

Caruso, who directed the YA sci-fi thriller I Am Number Four, recently wrapped The Disappointments Room, Relativity’s supernatural thriller starring Kate Beckinsale and Lucas Till. That movie is due for release Sept. 25. 

San Andreas – Official Teaser Trailer Has Dropped!

After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter.

But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it’s just getting started.

The action thriller “San Andreas,” from New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow Pictures, reunites Dwayne Johnson with director Brad Peyton and producer Beau Flynn, following their collaboration on the global hit “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

The film also stars Carla Gugino (“Night at the Museum,” TV’s “Entourage”), Alexandra Daddario (“Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” TV’s “True Detective”), Ioan Gruffudd (“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”), Archie Panjabi (TV’s “The Good Wife”), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Australian TV’s “Home and Away”), Art Parkinson (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) and Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti (“Cinderella Man”).

“San Andreas” is produced by Beau Flynn (“Hercules,” “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”). Tripp Vinson (“Red Dawn”) also serves as producer. Richard Brener, Samuel J. Brown, Michael Disco, Rob Cowan, and Bruce Berman are the executive producers, and Hiram Garcia is co-producer. The screenplay is by Carlton Cuse, story by Andre Fabrizio & Jeremy Passmore.

The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Steve Yedlin (“Looper”), production designer Barry Chusid (“The Day After Tomorrow”), editor Bob Ducsay (upcoming “Godzilla”), VFX producer Randall Starr (upcoming “Into the Storm”), VFX supervisor Colin Strause (“The Avengers”), and costume designer Wendy Chuck (“Twilight”).

Shot on location in The Gold Coast and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and in Los Angeles and San Francisco, “San Andreas” is slated to open in theatres in both 3D and 2D format on Friday, May 29, 2015. 

Dwyane Johnson And Kevin Hart Team Up For Intelligence

Variety is reporting that action superstar Dwayne Johnson and comedy sensation Kevin Hart will combine their gifts for New Line’s buddy action-comedy Central Intelligence, to be directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber of We’re the Millers and Dodgeball fame.

Hart will play a former high school sports star turned accountant who, on the eve of a class reunion, is contacted by a former classmate who used to be a bullied “loser” but is now a contract killer for the CIA. In case you hadn’t guessed, that zero-to-hero is played by Johnson, who will recruit Hart’s character to help foil a plot to sell classified military secrets.

Scott Stuber (Ted, Identity Thief) will produce through his Bluegrass Films banner, along with Peter Principato and Paul Young of Principato-Young Entertainment. Ed Helms, who worked with Thurber on “Millers,” is executive producing. Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen wrote the original script, with Sean Anders and John Morris penning a subsequent draft and Thurber taking another pass on the latest script.

Central Intelligence will begin shooting in the spring, with Johnson also in development on two more “Journey to the Center of the Earth” sequels as well as playing Black Adam in Shazam, both for New Line. Hart has just finished filming a Ride Along sequel and has comedies The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard ready for release in early 2015.

"Furious 7" TRAILER HAS BEEN RELEASED!!!

The first official trailer for,”Furious 7″ has been officially released thanks to their own twitter account. Here is a synopsis;

–Furious 7 is set to take place after Fast & Furious 6. After defeating Owen Shaw and his crew, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) and the rest of the crew are able to return to the United States and live the normal life again as they had wanted, but Owen’s older brother, Ian Shaw (Jason Statham), is after Dominic, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, putting the entire crew in danger once more. After learning of Han’s death, the crew sets out to find the man who killed one of their own, before he finds them first.

“Furious 7” stars Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner, Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs, Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz, Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce, Ludacris as Tej Parker, Lucas Black as Sean Boswell, Jason Statham as Ian Shaw, Elsa Pataky as Elena Neves, Kurt Russell, Tony Jaa as Louie Tran, Ronda Rousey, Nathalie Emmanuel as Megan, Djimon Hounsou as Slim, John Brotherton as Sheppard, Ali Fazal plus Iggy Azalea is set to make a cameo appearance in the film.

Here is the long awaited trailer:

Vengeance hits home. The road to April 3rd has begun. Watch the trailer now. #Furious7https://t.co/7zLFBlCQhr
— #Furious7 (@FastFurious) November 1, 2014