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The Smashing Machine Adds New Heavyweight Boxing Champion

The Smashing Machine Adds New Heavyweight Boxing Champion

The Smashing Machine is in production from A24, and after sharing the first look of Dwyane Johnson in the role of MMA fighter Mark Kerr earlier this week, they announced a huge get for the cast New boxing undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Oleksandr Usyk, will play MMA legend Igor Vovchanchyn Usyk just last[...]
Dwayne Johnson Transforms In First Pic From A24's Smashing Machine

Dwayne Johnson Transforms In First Pic From A24's The Smashing Machine

Dwayne Johnson is currently filming a role for A24's biopic The Smashing Machine, about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and today, the studio released the first photo from the film, where Johnson looks completely different from when we last saw him Directed by Benny Safdie, the drama also stars Emily Blunt, his co-star from Disney's The[...]
Dwayne Johnson at the AFI FEST 2016 Premiere of 'Moana' held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, USA on November 14, 2016. Editorial credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com

Dwayne Johnson, Benny Safdie Making The Smashing Machine For A24

The Smashing Machine will focus on the MMA career and life of fighter Mark Kerr, from a script also by Safdie Johnson's production company, Seven Bucks, will produce the film alongside Safdie's Out For The Count A24 will finance and produce the movie with them The pair have been trying to get this one off[...]