Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans are starring in their very own spin on “Guardians of the Galaxy”….meets the North Pole.
Johnson performs the North Pole’s Head of Safety who, apart from teaching Santa (J.Ok. Simmons) to get shredded, enlists the world’s most notorious bounty hunter (Chris Evans) to assist save Christmas. The highly-anticipated vacation heist movie “Purple One” is directed by Jake Kasdan and is written by Chris Morgan, with the script primarily based on a narrative by Hiram Garcia.
The official synopsis reads: After Santa Claus – Code Identify: RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Safety (Johnson) should group up with the world’s most notorious bounty hunter (Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to avoid wasting Christmas.
Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, and Wesley Kimmel additionally star.
Johnson, Kasdan, Garcia, Morgan, Dany Garcia, and Melvin Mar produce the Amazon MGM Studios function. Johnson beforehand teased the movie on social media, writing, “Women, gents & kids of all ages…the best, strongest, kindest, most unhealthy ass, most loving & most OG Santa Claus of all time. Dropped at life by Academy Award winner, J.Ok. Simmons who labored his ass off for months to step into this iconic function in AMAZING SHAPE for our Christmas franchise movie, RED ONE. We’re having a BLAST and so will you and your households while you see our film!!”
Co-star Evans captioned, “We’re already having WAY an excessive amount of enjoyable on this one. I can’t consider I’m lastly doing a Christmas film!”
Each Evans and Johnson are choosing the indie route for his or her respective subsequent options. Whereas Johnson simply inked a cope with Disney, the actor/producer is starring in Benny Safdie’s first solo function directing movie, “The Smashing Machine.” Johnson is tapping into his authentic “The Rock” roots to painting MMA legend Mark Kerr. Safdie penned the script primarily based on Kerr’s real-life story and rise within the UFC. Per the preliminary A24 announcement, Johnson’s most dramatic mission but follows MMA fighter Kerr’s profession peak in the course of the “no-holds-barred period of the UFC” in 2000. Johnson and Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions will produce alongside Safdie’s Out for the Depend banner, Eli Bush, and David Koplan.
In the meantime, Evans joined Ethan Coen’s cult dramedy “Honey, Don’t!” alongside Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza. Evans is ready to play a cult chief.
“Purple One” premieres November 15 in theaters. Take a look at the trailer under.
