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Dwayne Johnson To Play Kamehameha In WB Epic King; Robert Zemeckis Directs Script By Bravehearts Randall Wallace
https://deadline.com/2018/08/dwayne-johnson-king-kamehameha-movie-robert-zemeckis-randall-wallace-1202453017/amp/
https://deadline.com/2018/08/dwayne-johnson-king-kamehameha-movie-robert-zemeckis-randall-wallace-1202453017/amp/
Warner Bros and New Line have won an auction for King, an epic-sized film that will star Dwayne Johnson as Hawaiian king Kamehameha. Robert Zemeckis is set to direct a film that could be compared to Braveheart, and only partly because King is based on a spec written by that films screenwriter, Randall Wallace. Seven Bucks Productions Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are producing with FlynnPictureCos Beau Flynn, Zemeckis and Wallace.
Kamehameha is the legendary king who was the first to unite the warring Hawaiian islands, which fulfilled the prophecy that surrounded his fabled life since birth. He took control of Hawaiis destiny, and gave the islanders leverage in advancing the culture in trading with the foreign ships from Europe that began showing up on the shores of islands that must have seemed like paradise, albeit a sometimes dangerous one as explorers like Simon Metcalfe and Captain James Cook discovered before Kamehameha forcibly unified the islands.
The plan is to shoot the film in 2020.