The rest of the trailer is filled with a few wisecracks, some nods in the direction of the story’s ridiculousness and lots and lots of action and large-scale set pieces.Ī final trailer (3.8 million views on YouTube) released at the beginning of July, just a couple weeks before the movie came out, began with an extended version of the scene where Johnson is navigating the exterior of the building before offering just a couple additional cuts to help establish the stakes. The second trailer in May (3.2 million views on YouTube) gives us a little more backstory before pushing him into the skyscraper-based situation that he then has to escape and rescue his family from. ![]() When a group of terrorists invade the building and start blowing things up, Johnson is the only one who can stop them, all in the name of protecting his family. And his family has been brought along because that’s how these things go. ![]() Now he’s a security consultant who’s been brought in to offer his opinion on a new building, the tallest ever built. The first trailer (16.4 million views on YouTube), also released in February, begins by showing that Johnson is - or was - a soldier who suffered an injury leading to the loss of one leg. Two posters revealed by Johnson in early July acknowledged the movie’s cultural inspirations, placing his photo as well as images of the building from the film and some of its promotional messaging within one-sheets resembling those of Die Hard and Towering Inferno. Another shows him leading his daughter through the flames as a way to convey the human stakes in the story. The next poster shows an extreme close-up of Johnson as he hangs on the outside of the massive skyscraper he’s trapped in, flames coming out the windows of the floors below him. In an entertaining thread, a Twitter user even did the math on the physics of the jump and found that in no scenario was he getting in that window. Reaction to the poster, released in February so as not to overlap with Sony’s Dwayne Johnson-starring Jumanji was, of course, that it was ridiculous. So it’s pretty clear we’re in summer action territory here, with a story that’s being sold primarily on the belief audiences will react to a big, spectacle-driven sequence. Dwayne has a daughter, Simone Alexandra Johnson, born in 2001, with his ex-wife Dany Garcia, and daughters, Jasmine, born in 2015, and Tiana Gia, born in 2018, with his wife, singer and songwriter Lauren Hashian.Johnson is leaping from a crane toward the broken window of a burning building on the first poster, a busy cityscape behind the action. He returned in 2001 during the WCW/ECW invasion where he joined a team of WWE wrestlers at The Scorpion King (2002), a prequel to The Mummy Returns (2001). In 2000, the Rock took time off from WWE to film his appearance in The Mummy Returns (2001). He turned face and became known as "The Peoples Champion". Soon the Rock was kicked out of the "Corporation". After the "Nation" split, The Rock joined another elite group of wrestlers known as the "Corporation" and began a memorable feud with Steve Austin. Rocky eventually took over leadership of the "Nation" and began taking the persona of The Rock. ![]() In 1996, Dwayne joined the WWE and became Rocky Maivia where he joined a group known as "The Nation of Domination" and turned heel. He made his wrestling debut in the USWA under the name Flex Kavanah where he won the tag team championship with Brett Sawyer. He then signed a three-year deal with the Canadian League but left after a year to pursue a career in wrestling. In 1995, Dwayne suffered a back injury which cost him a place in the NFL. During his high school years, Dwayne began playing football and he soon received a full scholarship from the University of Miami, where he had tremendous success as a football player. While growing up, Dwayne traveled around a lot with his parents and watched his father perform in the ring. His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black Nova Scotian descent), and his mother is of Samoan background (her own father was Peter Fanene Maivia, also a professional wrestler). He is the son of Ata Johnson (born Feagaimaleata Fitisemanu) and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles). Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, was born on in Hayward, California.
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