Dwayne Johnson Dwayne Johnson Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, producer, and semi-retired professional wrestler. Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, where he won a national championship on the 1991 Miami Hurricanes team. After being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL two months into the 1995 season, he began training for a career in professional wrestling, following in the footsteps of various family members, including his grandfather Peter Maivia and his father, Rocky Johnson, from whom he inherited Canadian citizenship in 2009.
Dwayne Johnson originally attached as producer and star, Johnson will now serve solely as the former on a film adaptation of "The Janson Directive". John Cena will fill the leading role, with Akiva Goldsman attached as screenwriter. Johnson will co-produce and star in "The King", a film about king Kamehameha Kūnuiākea, founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. The project will be directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script written by Randall Wallace. The movie will be comparable to "Braveheart" in tone, given Wallace's work on both films, and will depict the king's role in resolving the wars among the