Dwayne Johnson Confirms Position in Oscar-Profitable Director’s Mafia Film

It is official: Dwayne Johnson and Martin Scorsese are making a film collectively. The fan-favorite actor has confirmed that he’ll seem within the Oscar-winning director’s upcoming mafia film, described as Goodfellas meets The Departed.

On X, Johnson shared a screenshot of the Deadline report concerning the forthcoming collaboration, which may also star Scorsese common Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnson’s Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt, alongside the next assertion: “Grateful for what’s been probably the most creatively inspiring time of my profession – working carefully with my associates and naturally, the maestro Marty Scorsese. Within the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s the mafia managed New York, Miami, Chicago, Vegas, and a very robust maintain on the island I used to be raised – Hawaii. Far more to come back. Aloha nui loa.”

Introduced in February 2025, Johnson will headline the untitled mafia film as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, primarily based on an actual determine, who battled encroaching rivals for management of organized crime in Hawaii. Deadline described the character as being much like Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas. Nick Bilton is writing the screenplay for the film, which is able to deal with a “turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest management of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.”

Right now, it is unclear if this will probably be Scorsese’s subsequent film. The acclaimed filmmaker is at the moment creating a number of options in tandem, with DiCaprio hooked up to all of them. The primary is the long-awaited movie adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling novel, The Satan within the White Metropolis: Homicide, Magic and Insanity on the Honest That Modified America, which Scorsese would direct DiCaprio in.

Scorsese and DiCaprio are additionally hooked up to Apple’s feature-length adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Residence, the second novel within the creator’s Gilead sequence. First printed in 2008, Residence is about concurrently with Robinson’s 2004 novel Gilead, chronicling the lifetime of the Boughton household — Reverend Robert Boughton and his grownup youngsters Glory and Jack — within the fictional plains city of Gilead, Iowa.

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The Rock Is Reinventing Himself as an Actor

Johnson is finest recognized for starring in big-budget blockbuster films like Quick 5, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Black Adam, and San Andreas. Nevertheless, Johnson appears eager on reinventing himself as a dramatic actor, starting with the upcoming A24 biopic The Smashing Machine. The actor will painting former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, which reunites him along with his Jungle Cruise co-star Blunt forward of Scorsese’s mafia film. Benny Safdie, the filmmaker/actor who is maybe finest recognized for guiding Uncut Gems alongside his brother Josh Safdie, is helming the sports activities biopic.

A primary have a look at Johnson as Kerr was launched in Could 2024, with the actor wanting nearly unrecognizable because the MMA fighter. Talking to GQ in November 2024, Johnson defined how he wished to do one thing exterior his consolation zone, with enjoying Kerr permitting him to “disappear into a personality” and “problem myself in ways in which I hadn’t been challenged.”

The Smashing Machine will probably be launched in theaters in 2025. A launch date for the Scorsese film has not but been introduced, as studios are nonetheless bidding on the venture.

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The Smashing Machine

Launch Date

2025-00-00

Director

Benny Safdie

Writers

Benny Safdie

Producers

Beau Flynn, David Koplan, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Tracey Landon

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