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For someone who pursues a profession Dwayne Johnson Since his rise to professional wrestling superstardom in the ’90s, it’s hard to believe that it’s been more than twenty years since twenty-nine-year-old Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, made his feature film debut in 2001. The return of the mummy Then he starred in his movie debut in The return of the mummy Spinoff prequel movie Scorpion King.
Although Johnson, like any other movie star who has enjoyed Johnson’s subsequent longevity, has certainly had his fair share of cinematic failures, with failures such as Baywatch And death And Tooth FairyJohnson’s success as an above-the-line movie star, if not a superstar, has put him in the rare position of being one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars of the past 20 years.
However, it now appears that Johnson’s time as a Hollywood star may be drawing to a close, as evidenced by the disappointing box office performances of his latest films, especially his latest starring vehicle, the DC superhero flick. Black Adamwhich was a critical and commercial failure.
Now at fifty-one, a precarious age for any Hollywood star, especially one with a mostly action-oriented streak like Johnson, Johnson is now engaged in the same battle for commercial relevance as Clint Eastwood in the late ’80s, Sylvester Stallone in the ’90s, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first decade. From the twenty-first century. At fifty-one, can Johnson fend off the challenge of Hollywood’s newest streak of action stars, the younger generation that Johnson represented twenty years ago?
Dwayne Johnson is Black Adam
Like all aging Hollywood stars, especially action movie icons, Dwayne Johnson is currently battling against Hollywood’s most abiding truth: every movie star is as good, so to speak, as his last movie.
According to this criterion, except for Johnson’s cameo appearance in X is fastJohnson’s career is currently being defined by the titular starring role in Black Adam, which was rated as a box office bomb. Although the film grossed nearly $400 million at the worldwide box office, the film’s reported production cost of approximately $260 million kept the film from reaching a point Draw at the box office. Given that privilege-conscious Johnson expressed a strong desire to convert Black Adam In a film series, the film’s failure was particularly detrimental to Johnson’s career.
Furthermore, with the lackluster commercial and critical reception of X is fast It seems to hasten the long term demise The Fast and the Furious Film series, this leaves Jumanji A series of films such as Johnson’s energetic and consistently popular series. In fact, Johnson has not had real success at the box office since 2019 Jumanji: The Next Levelwhich grossed nearly $800 million at the worldwide box office against a reported production cost of $132 million.
despite of Jumanji: The Next Level It was preceded by another successful movie at the box office, 2019 Fast & Furious Shows: Hobbs & Shawwhich grossed approximately $760 million at the worldwide box office against a reported production cost of $200 million, with The Fast and the Furious The series is now seemingly on its last legs, as Johnson’s next reliable source of box office revenue will come, beyond its potential future Jumanji films?
Is Dwayne Johnson overexposed?
Perhaps no other Hollywood star in history has been as visible as Dwayne Johnson over the past decade, whether in film or television, particularly through Johnson’s giant social media platform, which has amassed over 380 million followers.
With his film and television production company, Seven Bucks Productions, Johnson produced and starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Ballers The biographical sitcom Young Rock. However, has Johnson’s focus on television detracted from his film career in terms of making Johnson too accessible, and have audiences tired of the media’s seemingly unavoidable presence?
No matter how much audience stress caused Johnson’s steady decline in popularity, the box office performance of his films over the past decade reveals that Johnson’s cinematic successes have grown progressively smaller and smaller, while his failures, such as Black Adam and 2021 Jungle tripon a larger scale, especially in connection with its huge production costs.
Furthermore, Johnson’s screen persona has become increasingly one-dimensional over the past decade. Rather than take more creative risks, as an actor, Johnson seemed to have confined himself within the constant and increasingly predictable confines of his blockbuster film space, which are now under threat.
Is Dwayne Johnson still having fun?
after Scorpion KingDwayne Johnson’s next starring role came in the popular 2003 action comedy the rundownwhich marked a major turning point not only in Johnson’s career but also in the history of Hollywood.
In one of the film’s early scenes, Johnson’s bounty hunter character, Beck, enters a nightclub in search of purpose and outruns Arnold Schwarzenegger, who tells Beck and Johnson to simply have fun, an apparent pass on the proverbial action star’s flame. From the then fifty-six-year-old Schwarzenegger to Johnson, who was thirty-one when the movie was released.
Today, Johnson can look behind him, figuratively speaking, and see the progress of Chris Hemsworth, Tom Holland, Jason Momoa, Chris Pratt, and others. As Johnson passes through his 50s, will he step down, so to speak, from those actors, as Schwarzenegger did to Johnson, or will Johnson fight to preserve or reclaim his now-fading status as the number one action hero in Hollywood, if not the world. ?
