Dwayne Johnson Signs On For ‘Snitch’

COMMENTS (16)

• He’s awesome and deserves the best. He works hard and delivers. Wish h the best

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 5:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• sweet. ric roman is a good egg. felon is some real shit.

  Comment by Flohneesa — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 5:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “save his son, who is falsely imprisoned.”

  Interesting that he’s playing a role where he has a son old enough to be in prison.

  Comment by cindercity — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 6:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He’s always come across as the new version of Arnold Schwarzenegger so I can’t picture him in a serious dramatic role but why not?

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 7:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Um, didn’t Paul Haggis and Russell Crowe just make this movie?

  Comment by Tarantino'd — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 7:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ric Waugh is an awful person to his core. Worked with him a few years ago and i saw first hand how huge his ego is. He has no problem screwing over anyone and will stab you in the back and then stab you in the chest.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 8:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • you’re kidding… a director with a big ego?

    i’ve never heard of such a thing.

    mild, milquetoast, passive people usually make the best directors, right?

    sounds like you were lousy at your job, and rrw– who doesn’t suffer fools lightly– either called you out, or fired you.

    either way, you’re both bitter AND a pussy (hence your anonymous attack) so… have fun with that.

    Comment by Flohneesa — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 8:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nice to see. Faster was one of the best action movies I’ve seen in years.

  Comment by Ricky — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 11:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yes it was. Good to see him return to action movies again too.

    Comment by casting couch — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 4:07am PDT  Reply to this post

  • “Faster was one of the best action movies I’ve seen in years.”

    You obviously don’t get out much.

    I guess you missed INCEPTION.

    Comment by Slower — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 4:28am PDT  Reply to this post

    • You haven’t been out much if you think Inception is an action movie. It has like 3 action scenes.
      Go back to hide under your rock.

      Comment by Me — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 12:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Inception? That’s what you cite as an example of quality? Inception was a complete pile of crap.

      Comment by Joe — Saturday March 26, 2011 @ 11:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love The Rock but wish he would pick better projects (same with Jason Statham too I guess)

  How come these guys are never up for studio tentpole roles?

  Comment by DVS — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 2:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• The real life character, Joey Settembrino, and his father, on which this story is based (whose father/son struggle was documented on FRONTLINE), centered on Joey’s first bust for dealing. He wasn’t innocent. The issue was he was a first-time offender and unlike other career criminal, who have associations to give up to prosecutors to cut a deal, Joe did not have any names/higher-ups to give up in order to cut a good deal so they just threw the book at him while the main thug he was working for got off with a minor sentence because he had names to give up. So, the prosecutors told the father, if you want your son’s sentence reduced YOU bring us information we can use to shorten his sentence. The Settembrino case is a perfect example of minimum sentencing requirements (judges hands tied – they had to give him 25 years) for first-time drug offenders that are out of control since the crack epidemic 80s – There have been some modifications but its still crazy. The idea that they made the Joey character “innocent” will, at first blush at least it would seem, rob the story of it complexity. What could have been a taut, thoughtful thriller/crime piece steeped in relevant themes ala TRAFFIC balanced with fine plotting and character work seen recently in Haggis’ THE NEXT THREE DAYS seems to have been developed in a very different direction here. The Rock? Really? I think he is great in a certain type of main stream material but this? Perhaps this is a big step for him acting/performance wise. I hope so as this is a really interesting, unique story to say the least.

  Comment by Interesting Facts — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 7:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• Look- I love Dwayne but whoever said Faster is the Best Action Movie in years is a dope. If you haven’t see Faster here’s the movie in a few words The Rock walks up to bad people and shoots them in the face. Theeeeee End.

  I would have been nice to see him actually fight someone.

  Comment by jUGDISH — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 11:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• Does this mean that Gordon Gray and Mark Ciardi are no longer producing partners? I see that Mark is not mentioned here. Is Mayhem a dead company?

  Comment by justwondering — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDT  Reply to this post