Dwayne Johnson’s next blockbuster may come in partnership with the biggest name in video games: Call of Duty.
The Rock hinted last month that he was working on a video game project in an interview last month, and word has apparently slipped which one he meant.
He was bringing, his own words, “one of the biggest, most badass games to the screen,” he told Men’s Journal.
Giant Freakin Robot has now reported that the game in question was definitely Call of Duty, the ongoing war franchise that has been headed towards a film adaptation since 2015.
What might the film cover? That’s anyone’s guess, as the franchise is known to zigzag between both years and locales, headed anywhere from World War II as the first game was set to the Cold War, modern warfare, or even to the future.
Johnson, according to the report, has not put pen to paper yet, as they are still in talks, but it looks to be trending in a positive direction if he was comfortable even hinting to it last month.
In 2018, Stefano Sollima, the director of Sicario 2, was reportedly negotiating to helm the feature.
Call of Duty recently changed hands, with Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard just a few days ago in a blockbuster move.
Who knows, maybe Dwayne came along with the deal?
Dwayne is currently the biggest movie star in the world, with his latest film Red Notice burning up the all-time Netflix charts, and his first-ever rap verse still an omnipresent meme on Tiktok.
If you’d like to rap along:
Here’s Dwayne’s full verse, via Genius:
It’s about drive, it’s about power
We stay hungry, we devour
Put in the work, put in the hours and take what’s ours
Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture bangin’ with Strange
I change the game so what’s my motherfuckin’ name? (Rock)
(What they gonna get though?)
Desecration, defamation, if you wanna bring it to the masses
Face to face now we escalatin’ when I have to put boots to asses
Mean on ya’ like a dream when I’m rumblin’, you’re gonna scream, “Mama”
So bring drama to the king Brahma (Then what?), comin’ at ya’ with extreme mana (Ahoo, ahoo, ahoo)