John Cena may seem like the type of guy who has it all; who’s seen it all and done it all. And he has… Except star alongside The Rock on the big screen.
The wrestling veteran has revealed he’d love to go face-to-face with Dwayne Johnson in the Fast and Furious franchise, calling it a ‘dream.’
As reported by CINEMABLEND, Cena said:
That stuff is beyond my control, but I would absolutely love that opportunity. That, for me, would be a dream.
I’m never really like, ‘Oh, I’d like to work with this person,’ but I just think between our chemistry in the live performance setting, there’s something certainly there with The Rock. So that would be my one name on the wish list.
Just imagine. From WrestleMania to Hollywood. From chokeholds to car… rides? Whatever, it’d be SICK.
If it doesn’t pan out then it’s no biggie as Cena is reportedly in talks to play Duke Nukem in a big-screen adaptation of the popular game.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Cena is currently in negotiations to take on the lead role in the cinematic adaptation of the popular video game franchise.
The currently unnamed film is due to be released by Paramount and is being produced by Platinum Dunes, a company run by Mr. Explosions himself, Michael Bay, who’s also the director behind the critically slammed Transformers series.
With the film in the early stages of development there’s currently no director on board, but the search to find a writer to pen the script is due to begin soon.
Other cast members are yet to be announced but with the studio eager to get the cameras rolling, I’m sure the wait for fans won’t be long.
Cena certainly does resemble Nukem and I think he’d be the perfect fit for the brash, wise-cracking and often politically incorrect action hero.
You’re forgiven if you haven’t heard of Duke Nukem before seeing how the game series was mostly popular during the 1990’s.
Starting out as a PC game in 1991, the series followed the adventures of the aggressive gun-slinging hero Nukem, whose missions always involved shooting down aliens to save planet Earth.
Initially being a mash-up of action film tropes and gore, the series evolved throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s with its most popular game, 1997’s Duke Nukem 3D, being released on the Nintenso 64, Playstation and Sega Saturn.
However since then, the series really has lain dormant… until 2011’s much reviled Duke Nukem Forever which, after spending 15 years in development hell, was not appreciated by anyone when it was finally released.
The big screen project was previously picked up by Dimension Films but when the rights eventually lapsed, Paramount picked up the pieces from Gearbox Software, the company who made the original game.
