Major Update on The Rock’s New Hollywood Project Revealed
Dwayne Johnson joins forces with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Emily Blunt for a Hawaiian mafia film now backed by Disney’s 20th Century Studios.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s upcoming crime film directed by Martin Scorsese has found its home. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that 20th Century Studios, a Disney subsidiary, has acquired the highly anticipated project featuring The Rock alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt.
Johnson will pull double duty as both star and producer, sharing producing responsibilities with Scorsese, DiCaprio, Blunt, and screenwriter Nick Bilton on the still-untitled film.
Set across the 1960s and 1970s, the movie chronicles a crime boss’s attempts to seize control of the Hawaiian islands. Bilton’s screenplay, described as based on true events, promises a fresh take on organized crime:
The untitled story follows a formidable and charismatic mob boss who rises to build the most powerful criminal empire on the islands, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates, while fighting to preserve his ancestral lands. His relentless pursuit of absolute power launched the last great American mafia saga, where the war for cultural survival happens in the most unlikely place: paradise.
The acquisition makes strategic sense as Johnson’s Seven Bucks Production previously signed a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company, which owns 20th Century Studios. This agreement also extends to 20th Television, another Disney property.
