Hot off the heels of their successful collaboration on disaster epic San Andreas, it appears that star Dwayne Johnson and director Brad Peyton are reuniting for another bombastic project.
Deadline reports that Peyton has signed on to direct Rampage, an adaptation of the 1980s arcade game that involved players taking control of giant monsters to fight off military forces.
Plot details were being kept sewn up when the project was originally announced and things are staying that way for the time being. All we know is it will involve giant monsters like a gorilla, a lizard and a wolf attacking North American cities and landmarks. Undoubtedly Johnson will be there to save the day. Are these monsters stupid or something? Trying to mess with The Rock?!
San Andreas might not have been the most critically well-received film in the world but it made a crap ton of money at the box office – $460 million, excellent for a movie that isn’t based on any existing property, proving that The Rock + buildings falling down = serious bank. That film was actually Johnson and Peyton’s second collaboration after Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which itself grossed a pretty impressive $335 million worldwide. The duo are also expected to do another one of those movies, this time entitled Journey 3: From Earth to the Moon (yes, really).
The duo will also produce the project, Johnson through his Seven Bucks Productions while Peyton will produce with Beau Flynn through his FlynnPictureCo.
Johnson is obviously a very busy man these days: as well as San Andreas and his HBO sports drama Ballers on the air, he’s also attached to a Big Trouble in Little China remake and is all-but-guaranteed to return in Fast & Furious 8. Peyton is in post-production on thriller Incarnate, starring Aaron Eckhart.
Were you a fan of the original Rampage arcade game? Do you see this working as a film and are Johnson & Peyton a good fit?
Source: Deadline