Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has a new project lined up with a legendary director and rounds out an all-star cast.
Deadline reports that The Rock is attached to a new project with Martin Scorsese at the helm. This Hawaii-set crime thriller will also star Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt and is being pitched as a blend of Scorsese classics “The Departed” and “Goodfellas.”
Nick Bilton (“The Idol,” “Fake Famous”) is writing the screenplay. Deadline describes the film as the following:
“The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.”
Rock and Blunt have starred in past films together on several occasions.
