Dwayne Johnson was prepared for one thing totally different.
Dwayne Johnson, often known as The Rock in skilled wrestling, is among the greatest stars on the planet. A pivotal determine in each previous and current WWE, The Rock can also be probably the most bankable film stars on the earth, together with his movies grossing over $12.5 billion worldwide. However Johnson’s subsequent movie is a a lot smaller affair, one which touches near residence for MMA followers.
In October, Johnson’s new film, The Smashing Machine can be launched, exhibiting the lifetime of two-time UFC heavyweight match winner Mark Kerr. The movie is from acclaimed director Benny Safdie and can be launched by the unbiased movie firm A24, which produced 2022 Academy Award successful Every thing All over the place All at As soon as amongst a litany of different essential darlings. It’s an enormous departure for Johnson, who instructed Pat McAfee on Tuesday that’s what drew him to the undertaking.
“I had been wanting for years now to chase the problem and be impressed by the problem,” Johnson stated. “I like making the larger blockbuster films. They’re lots of enjoyable. They’re exhausting as shit to make, and lots of people get pleasure from them, hopefully, knock on wooden, all over the world. However I needed extra. I needed a problem, and I simply needed the chance to vanish into one thing and disappear into a component and a task that may actually problem me in ways in which I’ve by no means been challenged earlier than.
“And on high of that, I do know it sounds loopy, however to be nervous. In a method, you’re buzzy. ‘How am I going to do that? I don’t understand how to do that?’ That occurred on The Smashing Machine with Benny Safdie and A24 and, in fact, Emily Blount.”
The movie is predicated on The Smashing Machine documentary detailing Kerr’s rise to the highest of the MMA world and precipitous fall and subsequent battle with habit. The movie additionally stars former Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader, who performs UFC Corridor of Famer and Kerr’s buddy Mark Coleman, together with a number of different notable fight sports activities figures, together with heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk taking part in Russian fighter Igor Vovchanchyn, Satoshi Ishii as Enson Inoue, James Moontasri as Akira Shoji, Andre Tricoteux as Paul Varelans and former UFC heavyweight champion Bas Rutten taking part in himself.
