news culture It Takes Two: A Lot Of Details About The Amazon Movie, With Maybe… Dwayne Johnson
The Rock in a film adaptation of It Takes Two, this is news that we did not expect the least in the world. And yet, it may come true: the Variety site has just published a long article full of details about this feature film made directly for Amazon.
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It Takes Two, soon on all screens
The arrival of an It Takes Two movie is not a surprise: we were already talking about it a few months ago, the company dj2 Entertainment has recovered the rights and has signed an agreement with Amazon, which makes the latter an important decision maker . In other words, We already knew that a 2021 Game of the Year adaptation was going to see the light of day on Prime Video, but on the other hand, we didn’t know that the site was that far along.
Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock
The information comes to us from the site. varietywho has just published a long article full of unpublished details. To the production therefore, dj2 Entertainment but also Seven Bucks Productions, this last organization directed by Dwayne Johnson, Dany García and Hiram García, all together with Amazon Studios. Precisely for this reason, “according to various sources” of the English-speaking site, “The Rock” could appear in the cast of the film. In what role, instead… that’s another story.
A frame faithful to the video game
And since we are talking about the story, we are already given a first synopsis: The film will take up the plot of the video game, specifically that of May and Cody, in the middle of a divorce and finding themselves trapped in the body of some rag dolls after a spell cast by their own daughter. The opportunity to venture into the house and garden from a new angle to find a solution to this big problem, which is definitely annoying.
Joseph Fares, director of It Takes Two
On the script side, obviously it’s Pat Casey and Josh Miller (Sonic the Movie and Sonic 2 the Movie) who are named, also assuming the role of executive producers. Also in the executive production we can highlight the presence of Stephan Bugaj on the side of dj2 Entertainment while Dmitri M. Johnson and Dan Jevons are in the main production. Also and above all, let’s point out the participation of Josef Fares (the same director of It Takes Two) and Oskar Wolontis, both from Hazelight Studios, also as executive producers!
Companies specializing in blockbusters… and video games
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For information, Seven Buck Productions is a company behind several big box office hits. : Red Notice, Jungle Cruise, Jumanji Next Level, Welcome to the Jungle, Skyscraper, Hobbs and Shaw, Rampage or even soon the DC Domics movie “Black Adam”. Short, plenty of big-budget movies that Dwayne Johnson plays in every single time: In other words, it shouldn’t be surprising if his name is on the It Takes Two poster.
At the end, dj2 Entertainment has already given birth to several adaptations of video games for the cinema: the last two Sonic precisely, but also soon the Tomb Raider animated series for Netflix, currently in development. The company is planning other projects in the future, particularly on behalf of Amazon, not least since there is talk of a Disco Elysium series and a Sleeping Dogs movie.
No mention of a release window for the It Takes Two movie has been moved upbut the work seems in any case to be well underway.
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