Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as WWE wrestling superstar The Rock, has signed onto appear in the Disney film taking its cues from their amusement park ride section known as Tomorrowland. Variety is describing as the film as a “space movie”, inspired by the studio’s recent whirlwind success with the theme ride-inspired “Pirates of The Caribbean” franchise starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are set to write the outer space adventure flick, which Disney is hoping to use as a vehicle for Johnson. The film is being designed as a vehicle for Johnson, who recently completed “Race to Witch Mountain” for Disney as well, due out March of 2009. The studio is calling the as-yet unnamed project an original script with no direct connection to the Tomorrowland section, a science-fiction futuristic area of Magic Kingdom that includes the legendary Space Mountain Ride.
Johnson, a former member of World Wrestling Entertainment where he went under the moniker of The Rock, is best known as the brutal Scorpion King from both 2001’s “The Mummy Returns” starring Brendan Frasier, as well as in his own eponymous spinoff film starring Johnson, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Kelly Hu, in 2002.
The film would be produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray of Mayhem Pictures, who produced Johnson’s last movie for Disney, the family-oriented comedy “The Game Plan.” Ciardi and Gray have also recently written the upcoming “The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” starring Jennifer Garner and Matthew McConaughey from New Line, and “The Hangover” for Warner Bros.
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By Costa Koutsoutis, source: (Variety.com)