{"id":573827,"date":"2026-07-07T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/573827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:35:12","slug":"dwayne-johnson-star-in-free-byrd-action-drama-for-greg-kwedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/573827\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson Star In Free Byrd Action Drama for Greg Kwedar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dwayne-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwayne-johnson_1\" data-tag=\"dwayne-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a> is set to star in and produce Free Byrd, an action drama directed by Greg Kwedar for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ben-affleck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-affleck_1\" data-tag=\"ben-affleck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon_1\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a>\u2019s Artists Equity banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gill Netter will also produce the pic also written by Kwedar (Sing Sing, Train Dreams). \u201cFree Byrd\u00a0follows a Las Vegas motorcycle stuntman who conceals a dementia diagnosis from everyone, including his mechanic brother, as he risks everything on one last jump. The film examines and confronts the mind\u2019s vast mysteries and the beauty and power of asking for help before it\u2019s too late,\u201d a synopsis from the producers states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFree Byrd\u00a0is a gift in many ways. Emblematic of life\u2019s sacred beauty, as well as life\u2019s harsh and callous reality. The subject matter of\u00a0Free Byrd\u00a0has become deeply personal to Greg Kwedar and myself as we\u2019ve started to unpack this fateful journey together,\u201d Johnson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film continues a path Johnson has been on in recent years. The Jumanji actor took a time out from playing a blockbuster action heros to star in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/benny-safdie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_benny-safdie_1\" data-tag=\"benny-safdie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benny Safdie<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-smashing-machine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Smashing Machine<\/a> as\u00a0Mark Kerr, an early MMA fighter whose life took a dark turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His upcoming releases include the live-action Moana\u00a0and\u00a0Jumanji: Open World, as well as Lizard Music,\u00a0written and directed by Safdie. The script for Free Byrd was originally by Jon Boyer, with an earlier draft coming from The Peanut Butter Falcon\u00a0writer and directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, before Kwedar did a rewrite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artists Equity is producing alongside Fifth Season, Johnson for Seven Bucks Productions, and Kwedar and Clint Bentley for Ethos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGreg is one of the most exciting writer-directors working today, and Dwayne  is an extraordinary talent and person. We are extremely excited that they have chosen to make this with us and very much look forward to sharing the finished film with audiences,\u201d Affleck and Damon said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Variety first reported the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson is set to star in and produce Free Byrd, an action drama directed by Greg Kwedar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[25304,28756,8168,18,117,19,17,8000,327],"class_list":["post-573827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-affleck","tag-benny-safdie","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-matt-damon","tag-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}