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 Then again, he's not going to pretend that box office grosses mean nothing to him. "The Game Plan was very significant. The box office success was very significant. It allows you a lot more freedom; that's just what happens in Hollywood." And more freedom means he can take the kinds of roles he craves. "It was very important earlier on in my career to just make sure I wasn't only doing action movies. That would be the easy thing to do. You're unchallenged that way. No, I want to grow, do comedies, quirky stuff like this, you know?" The plan is working - Johnson's next role will be opposite Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, and Alan Arkin in Get Smart an update of the classic television comedy. "Oh, it's great!" he exclaims, visually excited to be talking about what sounds like much more of a sure thing than Southland Tales. "It was a great experience working with Steve Carell, he was fantastic, and Alan Arkin was really tremendous. He's a good man...The great thing about that is that everybody's straight in that movie. Why it works in Get Smart is because the characters don't know that they're in a comedy, so everything is played very straight." After that comes Witch Mountain, the second in what he hopes will be a long and lucrative relationship with Disney. It's an update of the classic 1975 family film Escape to Witch Mountain. "We're going to shoot Witch Mountain next, with Andy Fickman, who directed The Game Plan. We're very exiting about that, David Baumbach turned in a really outstanding script. And I know a lot of the writers have been up against a wall handing in their scripts, but he really nailed it, and we're very excited. Big Disney movie, March of '09 it'll be out," he says. "The action and comedy are amped up, the children are a little older - AnnaSophia Robb is in it, and we still haven't cast the boy." (Johnson elaborates on the WGA Strike in as neutral terms as possible: "I look for it to be resolved as soon as possible, but I understand where the writers are coming from, sure," he says. "I was hosting Saturday Night Live next week, and from what I know now, obviously we're not going to do that. But it's fine. You know, big deal - the most important thing here is that the writers and everybody come to an agreement.") Finally, there's the little question of his name - Southland Tales marks the first time the actor is simply referred to as Dwayne Johnson - not The Rock, not even Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. "Yes, it is the first time I'm being billed as Dwayne Johnson," he confirms. "Moving forward now, I'll be billed as just Dwayne ... |
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