I’m praying that this movie is more in the mold of Pirates of the Caribbean than Tomorrowland. It doesn’t need to be a brilliant work, it just needs to be fun.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script is coming from John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (Focus) and is going to be a period piece similar to The African Queen in tone. Having been on the Jungle Cruise ride — which, if you’ve been lucky enough to avoid, is a cruise through a generic “Africa” full of animatronic animals and horrible puns from your guide — I can safely say that setting it in the past is really the only way to make it work. And I 100% endorse a film that is just two hours of Dwayne Johnson telling puns.
Plus, Johnson’s really excited:
[Disney production president] Sean Bailey and Disney have been awesome partners and now the fun part begins … We’re starting to put in the work with Requa and Ficarra and our creative team. Fired up about this one. Here we go.
If only his pure charisma could carry a film, we’d be guaranteed a good time.
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