Over the last few months there’s been a lot of talk about The Rock’s status for WrestleMania. The Final Boss seemingly squashed his beef with Cody Rhodes during the Raw premiere on Netflix, and now it seems that he’s focusing on a major project.
Deadline is reporting that The Rock is set to star in an upcoming Martin Scorsese film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt which will take place in Hawaii. According to the report the film will focus on, “a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.”
The idea is that the film will be similar to “Goodfellas” and “The Departed” and will be set in the 1960s and 70s as a “formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land.”
It’s being said that The Rock has long wanted to make a movie in Hawaii and had previously kicked around a film about King Kamehameha. The Rock and Emily Blunt reportedly brought the idea to Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio, and they all enlisted Nick Bilton to write the film.
Martin Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn are all attached to the project as producers as well. Multiple bids are on the table for the project and are “fast mobilizing.”