New Line is hoping that a combo of two of its biggest stars can help it catch some of the box office success enjoyed by the likes of the Jump Street films. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are partnering up for a new buddy action comedy called **Central Intelligence.
We’re The Millers director Rawson Marshall Thurber will make this one, which finds Hart as a former high school sports star contemplating his next school reunion while working as an accountant. Before the event, a former classmate (Johnson), who used to be a bullied loser back in the day, gets in touch. He’s not bullied much these days – he’s played by Johnson after all, and we’re fairly sure the only thing that could bully that man would be Smaug – as he’s now a CIA contract killer who ropes Hart into stopping a plot to sell classified military secrets.
The Rock took to Instagram to tease his involvement in typically entertaining style…
> > > [Fired up reading the script of my next movie - Big action comedy. Surprise announcement this week of who my co-star will be. Here's a hint... in the right lighting and camera angles, we could pass as twins! #OurMamasWillBeProud #IThinkWeHaveTheSameDaddy #GetReadyWorld #ThisShitIsGonnaBeFunny](https://instagram.com/p/vMIMQboh4f/) > > A photo posted by therock (@therock) on Nov 11, 2014 at 10:45am PST
This isn’t exactly a brand new project: it has been floating around since at least 2009, when Universal picked up the original script by Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen and attached Ed Helms to the role Hart is now playing.
Since then, it’s been through the keyboards of Horrible Bosses 2 duo Sean Anders and John Morris and Thurber himself, who has been working on the draft that presumably will see the light of day when he starts cranking the cameras next spring.