By Nicolas Lafferriere On 04/30/2024
While taking a break from your commitments within WWE, The Rock He is focused again on his film projects. One of them is Red Onea Christmas movie produced by Amazon MGM and its own Seven Bucks Productions, to be released in November 2024 in theaters and streaming.
The film suffered several production problems.starting with a delay in its original release to the end of 2023. What was initially indicated as a consequence of the strike that hit Hollywood took a new point of view when Dwayne Johnson was revealed as responsible of an overinflated budget and deplorable behavior in its recording.
The Wrap revealed several behind-the-scenes details of Red One. The report states that several members of the group working on the film They have called Dwayne Johnson “incompetent and unprofessional” in the production section, to the point of relegating several of their tasks to Hiram Garcia, Julie Rapaport and Glenn Gainor, other producers in charge of the project with less experience. They also criticized his conduct of “refusing public toilets and using water bottles to urinate“.
The reason for those relays lies in The Rock’s bad habit of breaking work schedules. The members of the film’s production described delays of up to eight hours to get to the filming set, and even reported absences of entire days. Curiously, An example of this behavior occurred in WWE itself. when Dwayne Johnson arrived late for his appearance at the World at WrestleMania XL convention.
As a result, several scenes of the film had to be shot in a parallel studio, where other actors recorded their roles while the protagonist of the film arrived at the filming set. Consequently, The film’s budget generated more than 50 million extra dollars in expenses related to The Rock’s tardiness. The more than 250 million dollars invested are exaggerated if we take into account the type of film that was expected to be created.
Red One was intended by Amazon MGM and Seven Bucks as the start of a new Christmas movie franchise. Dwayne Johnson shared the filming with names like Chris Evans, Lucy Liu and JK Simmons. Skepticism towards The Rock’s work It has been present since films like Black Adam, and has been carried over to other future projects of the fighter such as The Smashing Machine.
