Source:
ComingSoon
After Warner Bros. and New Line won the auction for
The King movie, Dwayne Johnson (
Jungle Cruise,
Hobbs and Shaw) will finally get to play Hawaiian King Kamehameha in the project directed by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis (
Forrest Gump,
Flight,
Allied) and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Randall Wallace (
Braveheart,
We Were Soldiers,
Pearl Harbor),
Deadline has confirmed.
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 Hawaii’s 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.
