The One Almost Paired Dwayne Johnson & Jason Statham (Before Hobbs & Shaw)
Before Jet Li came aboard The One the movie was intended for Dwayne Johnson, and it would have paired him with Jason Statham many years before Hobbs & Shaw. Statham's movie debut was Guy Ritchie's sleeper hit Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, and he had an unlikely journey to becoming an action hero from there. Statham's screen presence was immediately apparent, but outside of his Ritchie collaborations, he's struggled to score a hit. Statham's first action role was Ghosts Of Mars, John Carpenter's sci-fi horror, but it wasn't until 2002's The Transporter that audiences saw his true potential.
Following the surprise success of that star vehicle, Statham scored more successes like Crank. He later joined The Fast And The Furious series as Deckard Shaw, who swears bloody vengeance against Dom and company in Furious 7. Statham made for a formidable foe, but as the series is wont to do, it began a redemption arc for Shaw with The Fate Of The Furious. This entry marked a turning point for Dwayne Johnson's involvement with the franchise too. Behind the scenes issues with Vin Diesel saw that they didn't film scenes together, and Johnson later vowed to never return to the main series. Fate Of The Furious also showed there was remarkable chemistry between Johnson's Hobbs and Statham's Shaw — whose family need their own spinoff — leading to talk of a solo movie fronted by the duo.
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This eventually came to pass with 2019's Hobbs & Shaw, which played like an even more cartoonish Tango & Cash. However, there is an alternate universe where Johnson and Statham would have been paired earlier onscreen. The One is a 2001 sci-fi action movie starring Jet Li, with heavy
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