5 Badass Games The Rock Could Make A Movie About

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Can you smell what The Rock is… playing? After decades of suffering through bastardized adaptation and bargain bin Uwe Boll swill, we finally had a couple of hit video game movies. Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu were successful enough to convince Hollywood that big budget video game movies are finally a safe investment, and as expected, all the major players are sniffing around to see which IPs are ripe for the big screen, including Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

To his credit, The Rock is no stranger to video game movies. He played Sarge in 2005’s Doom alongside Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike, and he was also the lead in 2018’s Rampage (not the Uwe Boll one). The Rock isn’t exactly seizing on the sudden trend of video game adaptations, but hopefully he’s preparing to finally make a good one for once.

All we know about The Rock’s next movie is that it’s based on “one of the biggest, most badass games.” That might not narrow it down much, but here’s a few educated guesses as to what that movie might be. I came up with these theories based on two metrics: A. What I think The Rock thinks is badass, and B. What games I think the Rock would fit well in. As I’ll demonstrate, that’s actually most games. Let’s get started.

Every character in Gears of War is based on The Rock. Even the one that’s literally Dave Bautista is based on The Rock. Bautista has been vocal about getting a Gears movie off the ground, and Hollywood would love nothing more than to finally get those two in a movie together. Gears has incredible iconography. Between the Hammer of Dawn, the Swarm, the Locust Horde, and the arsenal of weapons like the Lancer and and the Dropshot, Gears is primed for a big-screen adaptation. The only problem is that