Dwayne Johnson will play golden-age comic book hero Doc Savage in the long-gestating feature film version.
Johnson revealed the news in an Instagram post over Memorial day weekend. Seems he spent the weekend holed up with the powers-that-be on the project, namely director Shane Black (“The Nice Guys”), discussing their vision for the movie.
The Sony-housed project will be co-written by Black, Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry.
At one stage Arnold Schwarzenegger was – granted, this was back in the ’90s – going to play the “Man of Bronze”.