Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt purpose for awards glory with the primary trailer for fact-based sports activities drama The Smashing Machine.
The wrestler-turned-actor performs the MMA fighter Mark Kerr within the movie impressed by the 2002 documentary with the identical title. Kerr received a number of awards and medals in his profession and in addition struggled with substance abuse.
The movie additionally explores his relationship along with his then girlfriend, performed by Emily Blunt. The pair beforehand starred in Disney journey Jungle Cruise.
It comes from the writer-director Benny Safdie, marking his first solo effort behind the digital camera. Collectively along with his brother, he acquired popularity of crime dramas Good Occasions and Uncut Gems.
“Benny desires to create, and continues to push the envelope in the case of tales which can be uncooked and actual, characters which can be genuine and at instances uncomfortable and arresting,” Johnson mentioned to Selection in 2024. “I’m at a degree in my profession the place I wish to push myself in ways in which I’ve not pushed myself previously. I’m at a degree in my profession the place I wish to make movies that matter, that discover a humanity and discover wrestle [and] ache.”
The actor additionally made it clear that this doesn’t signify “an abandonment of huge, four-quadrant films”.
In December final 12 months, Blunt known as it “an extremely immersive, very intense, very emotional expertise” and Safdie a “very cool, aesthetically thrilling, visible director”.
Final 12 months Johnson led Christmas motion comedy Purple One and can subsequent be seen within the live-action remake of Moana.
He was additionally lately connected to a different movie with Blunt, a Hawaii-set crime thriller from Martin Scorsese that will even star Leonardo DiCaprio. Johnson will co-author a real crime e book on the identical topic, calling it “an unbelievable, inspiring and eye-opening expertise”.
Blunt was final seen alongside Ryan Gosling in The Fall Man after she acquired her first Oscar nomination for Oppenheimer. The actor can also be set to seem in Steven Spielberg’s subsequent untitled movie, a mysterious sci-fi undertaking additionally starring Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.
The Smashing Machine will likely be launched within the US and the UK on 3 October.
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