Dwayne Johnson Holiday Film From Amazon Taps Jake Kasdan to Direct

Dwayne Johnson.The star made his desires known when he sat down with and revealed there’s a family connection to the Bond franchise. As Johnson tells it, his grandfather, Peter Maivia, played a Bond villain in the 1967 classic starring Sean Connery.Johnson, however, doesn’t exactly want to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps.

With Daniel Craig’s 007 swansong, “No Time to Die,” finally in theaters and making hundreds of millions of dollars around the world, it’s time for Barbara Broccoli and the other James Bond decision-makers to start planning the future of the franchise. And if she wants a late addition to the “Who will take over as James Bond” discussion, it appears Dwayne Johnson is ready to put his name in the hat.

Dwayne Johnson is up for being the next James Bond.

James Bond.The actor opened up about his interest in the role in light of Daniel Craig retiring from Bond after No Time To Die, in a new interview with Esquire.Nodding to the fact that his grandfather Peter Maivia had starred in the franchise, as a villain in the 1967 entry You Only Live Twice, Johnson tossed his hat in the ring.“Yes, my grandfather was a Bond villain in You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery.

Netflix’s $200M Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds feature Red Notice was a sensation in U.S. Samba TV measured households, pulling in an awesome 4.2M in its Friday-Sunday debut.

Dwayne Johnson has called out his Red Notice co-star Ryan Reynolds in a large-scale prank involving a billboard and a mom joke.The trolling took place after the premiere of the Netflix film, which sees the pair work together onscreen to take down Gal Gadot’s top tier criminal.Johnson took to social media to share the prank billboard, which reads: “Ryan Reynolds uses his Mom’s Netflix account.”A post shared by therock (@therock)“For the record, Ryan’s mama is an AMAZING WOMAN.

finale of the “Fast & Furious” franchise.Another sequel in development at Seven Bucks is “Jumanji 3,” and with news that director Jake Kasdan – who helmed “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “Jumanji: The Next Level” – is directing Johnson’s next movie (more on that below), we asked Garcia if this meant that development on the next “Jumanji” movie had slowed. As it turns out, it’s quite the contrary.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has an adorable new publicist on his team, his five-year-old daughter Jasmine.

Vin Diesel has extended an olive branch to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, campaigning for the former wrestler, current actor and recent one-time rapper to appear in the final instalment of the Fast & Furious series.In a new post shared to his Instagram, Diesel asked Johnson to “rise to the occasion and fulfil [his] destiny”.

Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson have been feuding for quite some time and the duo have said quite a lot about their disdain for each other over the years.

The film stars Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds. The trio play an FBI profiler (Johnson), a skilled art thief (Reynolds) and the most wanted art thief in the world (Gadot).

fired a prop gun on the set of film Rust last month (October 21), which resulted in the death of Hutchins and caused injuries to director Joel Souza.Speaking to Variety at the premiere of Netflix film Red Notice on Wednesday (October 3) in Los Angeles, Johnson vowed he’d stop using real firearms on all projects produced by his company, Seven Bucks Productions.“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without an absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with

Dwayne Johnson will no longer use real guns on his movie sets. In the wake of the fatal shooting — in which Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun on the film's set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza -- Johnson vowed that his production company will stop using real guns on its sets.«First of all, I was heartbroken,» Johnson told at the premiere of his latest flick, .

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, and towards the end of the film, there's even a pointed joke about a celeb not in the film — Vin Diesel. Johnson, 49, and Diesel, 54, have a history together after their reported drama on the set went very public. This history led Reynolds to throw in a quip about the action star in the upcoming Netflix film. «You know, Ryan loves to improv, and I love that,» Johnson told ET's Matt Cohen at the premiere of on Wednesday.

Dwayne Johnson spoke out about the tragic “Rust” shooting during Wednesday’s “Red Notice” premiere in Los Angeles.

Hallmark Christmas movie, a film that works best if you’re paying only half-attention to it while folding laundry or paying the bills.“Red Notice” opens in select theaters Nov. 5 and premieres on Netflix Nov. 12.

Dwayne Johnson isn’t afraid to make some lighthearted jokes about Vin Diesel.

The Rock might have a big new franchise on his hands.