According to Deadline.com, former WWE superstar Batista landed a role for the upcoming film “Bus 657” starring Robert DeNiro.
Production starts on October 13th in Alabama. Also featured in the film are Kate Bosworth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and female MMA fighter Gina Carano.
The synopsis for the film is:
“[Bus 657] centers on a father (Morgan) without the means to pay for his daughter’s medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker (Bautista) to rob a casino and the two hijack a bus full of hostages and things go awry. De Niro will play Frank ‘The Pope,’ owner of the casino, and Bosworth plays his estranged daughter. Carano is a policewoman in pursuit of the hijacked bus.”
