{"id":182282,"date":"2025-06-13T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182282\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:12:11","slug":"darren-aronofsky-to-direct-dwayne-johnson-in-a24-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182282\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky to Direct Dwayne Johnson in A24 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDarren Aronofsky is looking to reteam with his The Whale studio A24, and is talks to direct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dwayne-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwayne-johnson_1\" data-tag=\"dwayne-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a> in the feature Breakthrough, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe logline for the film reads: \u201cIn turn-of-the-millennium Southern California, an alienated young man comes under the influence of a motivational guru, whose intoxicating charm masks his morally questionable methods of manipulation and his own concealed darkness.\u201d Johnson will be playing a supporting role in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA24 will produce and finance actor-writer Zeke Goodman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStacey Sher\u2019s Shiny Penny Productions will produce with Johnson and Dany Garcia\u2019s Seven Bucks Productions. Jacob Epstein and Justin Wolf will executive produce via Lighthouse Management and Media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis will be the second A24 project for Johnson, who stars in Benny Safdie\u2019s The Smashing Machine, which is due out this October. Johnson, who is known for family-friendly fare like Jungle Cruise and Red One, has been setting up projects with auteur directors as of late. He is set to star in a Hawaii-set mob epic with Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio from director Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAronofsky will soon release crime thriller Caught Stealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky is looking to reteam with his The Whale studio A24, and is talks to direct Dwayne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,12656,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-182282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dwayne-johnson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114678592126779947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}