April 01, 2004
The Rock Puts Stock In Bond
"I'm Rock, The Rock."
Dwayne Johnson, aka the Rock, is the new James Bond replacing Pierce Brosnan as the British agent. The new Bond was expelled from the British Spy Serve and is hired by the CIA to battle the rising gang violence in NYC and LA.
"The Rock" told Rolling Stone that his upcoming project, "James Bond 22 MOB RULES" , will be a serious take on the 1980 cult classic The Warriors. "It's like what Mission: Impossible was for Tom Cruise," Johnson said in an interview while promoting his latest film, the April 2 release Walking Tall. Johnson will star in MOB RULES as James Bond, who chases bad guys in an elaborately designed Hummer.
Johnson revealed that plans are already in development for the car he will use in Spy Hunter. "I was just up in the room and there was this awesome secretive meeting," he said. "We took out all the concepts [of] what it looks like. It's this awesome machine Hummer is making. [It] breaks off into a boat, into a three-wheeler and into a motorcycle. It's really incredible."
MOB RULES is being written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (2 Fast, 2 Furious), but Johnson said that a director has yet to be chosen. "Probably within 10 days," he said. Johnson also reported that the music, which was borrowed from Henry Mancini's theme for the television series Peter Gunn, would return as well, though in a modified version. "It won't be done over and over," Johnson said, referring to the repetitive loop that played in the game. "It has to be part of the movie, sure, but a contemporary version of that."James Bond 22 MOB RULES" is set for a summer 2005 release by Universal Pictures.