One among our favourite Darren Aronofsky movies is “The Wrestler,” and he could also be teaming up with a former wrestler, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Aronofsky is in early conversations to direct “Breakthrough,” a drama that may co-star Dwayne Johnson and is ready up at A24, a supply informed IndieWire.
“Breakthrough,” written by Zeke Goodman, would co-star Johnson in a movie set on the turn-of-the-millennium Southern California about an alienated younger man who comes underneath the affect of a motivational guru, whose intoxicating attraction masks his morally questionable strategies of manipulation and his personal hid darkness.
Johnson is already hooked up to the mission within the supporting function because the motivational guru, and the movie would nonetheless be trying to find its younger lead.
A24 didn’t remark.
A24 will produce and finance “Breakthrough,” and Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions may also produce the movie. Stacey Sher’s Penny Productions may also produce. Jacob Epstein and Justin Wolf will govt produce through Lighthouse Administration and Media.
This may be the second A24 movie for Aronofsky, who directed “The Whale” and helped Brendan Fraser win an Oscar, and it’s additionally the second A24 movie for Johnson, who’s starring in “The Smashing Machine” from director Benny Safdie. Johnson within the movie performs Mark Kerr, a blended martial arts fighter and UFC champion, and he stars within the movie alongside Emily Blunt.
Aronofsky’s subsequent characteristic is “Caught Stealing,” which stars Austin Butler and arrives in theaters this August from Sony. The movie is a genre-bending, neo-noir and psychological drama set within the ’90s following a former baseball participant introduced right into a felony underworld. Aronofsky has additionally stored very busy, together with directing the characteristic for the Sphere in Vegas “Postcards from the Edge,” and he has a brief movie that he produced as a part of Google’s Deep Thoughts program referred to as “Ancestra” that was made through generative AI and premiered at Tribeca this previous week.
Deadline first reported the information.