There’s a brand new replace on Dwayne Johnson‘s biographical film about MMA fighter Mark Kerr!

The 51-year-old former WWE wrestler and actor is ready to star in and government produce the upcoming film, which has now landed financing from A24, THR reports.

Should you recall, A24 can be producing the upcoming Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White film The Iron Claw, which facilities on the Von Erich brothers, who made historical past in skilled wrestling within the Nineteen Eighties.

The Mark Kerr biopic has been in the works for several years, and it was simply revealed that one of many actors from Oppenheimer has written the script and can direct!

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Benny Safdie, pictured right here, has written the characteristic and can make his solo directing debut with the movie.

The author/director/actor is most well-known for working alongside his brother Josh, because the Safdie Brothers. They most notably co-wrote and co-directed Adam Sandler‘s movie Uncut Gems.

Benny most just lately co-created and stars within the collection The Curse, which he’s additionally a author on.

“It’s a dramatic function, however Mark lives a dramatic life,” Dwayne beforehand advised Variety of the upcoming function. “It’s a possibility to shine a lightweight on considered one of our warriors, who not solely deserves it, however who has such common attraction and a common story.”

“The man was a beast and he was dominant and there was just one like him at the moment,” he added. “When you concentrate on these fighters, there is no such thing as a different sport like MMA — the a number of disciplines and the strain and the truth that you place your life on the road, actually, each time you step within the cage — and when you dig slightly deeper than the physicality that they’ve, there’s an actual character of depth to loads of these warriors, and Mark is considered one of them.”