The Rock is Already Set to Star in another A24 Movie After The Smashing Machine
The Rock's image as a celebrity is pretty clear-cut, so it's pretty surprising that he would team-up with a Safdie brother for the biopic The Smashing Machine . Though some consider this an interesting fluke for Johnson's career, it looks like he's already signed up for another artsy movie with A24.
As per Discussing Film, the Rock will be starring in Breakthrough , a psychological thriller which will have him play a motivational guru who takes a young man under his wing as he uses 'morally questionable methods of manipulation'.
We don't know exactly what the film's theme is set to be, but some guess that the Rock is going to be playing some kind of 'Andrew Tate' character who is going to be a cautionary tale about the rise of misogyny and Hustle culture—especially how it also targets young men.
If anything, the Rock already kind of played a 'wealth-fluencer' character like that in HBO's Ballers , but it would make sense if he was cast as that kind of toxic masculine influencer because it does seem like a lot of those kinds of people are aspiring to be someone like Johnson.
After the several big-budget, family-friendly flops like Black Adam , some are thinking that Johnson is trying to pull a serious image reboot with The Smashing Machine . I'll admit, I am in the camp that thinks he's kind of washed up artistically, but he's very welcome to prove everyone wrong with this recent slate of projects.
Breakthrough has no release date yet, but The Smashing Machine comes to cinemas on Oct. 3.
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