J.J. Abrams and the Rock Tease a Mystery Team Up Project

J.J. Abrams hasn’t directed a movie since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and portion we inactive don’t cognize what his adjacent 1 volition be, it whitethorn prima 1 of the biggest actors connected the planet. On societal media Wednesday, nary different than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared that helium and Abrams, on with writer Zak Penn and 1 of Johnson’s partners, Hiram Garcia, were moving unneurotic connected a project. The lone tease was the tagline “…tonight, it comes to life…”

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Years successful the making – we yet broke bread, we drank, we laughed, got a lil’ drunk (maybe that was conscionable maine 🙋🏽‍♂️) we talked beingness stuff, emotion stuff, dude worldly and took our clip chopping up our passionateness for movies and storytelling. Then we each raised a solid and toasted to….

yup,… pic.twitter.com/0E2E1MCRwS

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 16, 2024

Penn is champion known for his aboriginal enactment successful the superhero genre, having written scripts oregon stories for films specified arsenic X2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, The Avengers, and X-Men: The Last Stand. His large interruption came successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile helium helped travel up with the communicative for the hugely underrated and ahead-of-its-time Last Action Hero starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Most recently, helium co-wrote Ready Player One for Steven Spielberg and Free Guy for Shawn Levy.

He’s a big-time, big-scope genre guy, which fits successful nicely with not conscionable Abrams—who has worked on Lost, Star Wars, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, and more—but besides Johnson, who is ever looking for that adjacent large thing. (Case successful point, his hopeful vacation franchise starter Red One, retired successful December.)

So let’s poke astir present a bit. Clearly the thought of Abrams and Johnson teaming up is intriguing, whether you similar them oregon not. They’re radical who bring large ideas and sanction designation to the table. What’s not wide astir the station is if everyone is taking their accustomed role. The presumption is Johnson stars, Abrams directs, and Penn writes, but that’s not a gimmie. Maybe Penn directs (which helium has successful the past) and Abrams produces (which he’s done continually since Rise of Skywalker). We aren’t definite but it’s important to enactment each the possibilities retired there.

Then there’s that tagline: “…tonight, it comes to life…” To travel to life, you presumably person to beryllium dormant oregon non-existent. Is this immoderate benignant of monster? Demon? A disease? Unclear. But again, with Penn successful the mix, we’d ideate we’re looking astatine immoderate benignant of genre IP with franchise possibilities and four-quadrant appeal. Or we’re idiots and it’s a transgression play for Apple TV+. Who is to say?

Penn did chime successful with a tiny update tweeting “More connected this later.” Are we reasoning New York Comic Con? Straight announcement successful a commercialized similar Deadline? We’ll support an oculus retired and fto you cognize erstwhile we cognize more.

What are your thoughts connected Abrams and Johnson teaming up? Clearly close present isn’t a precocious constituent for either of their careers, truthful is this the close squad up astatine the close time?

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