We Need John Cena As Duke Nukem In A Live-Action Movie

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With the help of Cobra Kai creators leading the project, everybody’s favourite tough guy, Duke Nukem, is finally getting his own movie. Of course, you’ll agree that it’s a great fit for wrestler-turned-actor John Cena to play Duke Nukem in the upcoming movie.

Ask any film critic: video games are the next big thing for movies. Just as comics dominated the past decade, video game adaptations seem to dominate the modern entertainment market, both on the small and the big screen. From Fallout to The Last of Us and even Five Nights at Freddy’s, these digital diversions are here to become the next MCU.

Knowing that filmmakers are desperate to come up with fresh ideas for video game adaptations, it’s no wonder some of them are looking for less “mainstream” characters to bring to live-action. I mean, there’s a Margot Robbie The Sims film coming out – if that doesn’t sound weird enough, I don’t know what does.

When it comes to non-PC video game characters, nothing gets closer to the one and only Duke Nukem. If you’re a younger player you might remember Duke (sadly) from Duke Nukem Forever, or perhaps from Bulletstorm‘s DLC. However, if you grew up in the nineties, you know there’s no one as macho and with more metallic gonads than the Duke.

Surprisingly, a Duke Nukem movie almost happened in 2018, when it was reported that John Cena would play the iconic role. That movie never materialized. Then, in 2022, a new Duke Nukem film resurfaced, this time from Cobra Kai‘s creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg. Not much has been revealed about this new film – but one thing is for sure: John Cena needs to be the Duke.

You can't see him as @JohnCena but you can see him as Duke Nukem XD @WWE pic.twitter.com/y1iO6hRbZb

One look at John Cena is all you need to convince yourself he was born to play Duke Nukem. Sure, 3D Realms had other action heroes in mind when they came up with the character. At the time, Duke was more a caricature of Arnie and Stallone, considering Cena