Increasingly looking to develop his own starring vehicles (and we don’t just mean buying big trucks), Dwayne Johnson has landed a deal to star in Alpha Squad Seven, which his production company helped develop{
Writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer dreamt up the pitch for what is described as a sci-fi comedy, one that is designed to pair The Rock with someone else, and, if successful, launch a franchise. Not to mention a raft of jokes about whether moviegoers need to have seen Alpha Squad one through six...
Friedman and Palmer sold their one-line idea to producer Beau Flynn and development executive Wendy Jacobson, referencing movies such as** Independence Day** and **Guardians Of The Galaxy **as inspiration, with Flynn then throwing it to Johnson’s 7 Bucks company, which stumped up the money to develop the script. DreamWorks has now won a bidding war for the idea, which all involved are keeping quiet for the moment.
As for Johnson, he’s back on our screens battling Mother Nature’s capricious ways with disaster movie **San Andreas **on May 29, and he’s in the early stages of shooting action comedy Central Intelligence and providing a voice for Disney’s Hawaii-flavoured animated adventure Moana, which is out on February 10, 2017.