Dwayne Johnson Confirms Jungle Cruise Filming Start Date

Jungle Cruise

Dwayne Johnson has confirmed the outset appointment for Disney’sJungle Cruisemovie . The original Jungle Cruise ride is part of Adventureland at Disney ’s musical theme park and loosely take over from the kind of earth - trotting Hollywood risky venture that give rise toIndiana Jones(itself the ground for an Adventureland drive in Disneyland).Jungle Cruise ’s visual effect executive program Jake Morrison basically called the film"Dwayne Johnson’sIndiana Jones " whenScreen Rantinterviewed him , further cement the connection between that iconic property and Johnson ’s vehicle .

course , both Johnson and Mirrson havename - droppedPirates of the Caribbeanas another source of inspiration for theJungle Cruisemovie . The capricious drive ferment blockbuster series seems to have at long last go out of gas after five movies , but it was the blistering young thing in Hollywood when Gore Verbinski’sThe Curse of the Black Pearlhit the scene in 2003 . agree to Johnson , Verbinski ’s swashbuckling theme park drive base motion picture left a hold out impression on him , begin from the very first dawdler .

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The Rock send a video recording toInstagramthat shew him about to sign what he says is"the biggest contract of my career"forJungle Cruise . During the video , Johnson announces thatJungle Cruisebegins shooting in Hawaii next week on Monday , May 21 and reveals that he ’s dreamed of starring in a movie based on an"iconic"Disney drive ever since he sawThe Curse of the Black Pearltrailer ( and , presumably , the actual movie ) . In distinctive way , the actor then stop his societal media update on a funny , self - effacing note .

Jungle Cruisethe movie takes place in the early twentieth century and follows riverboat captain Frank ( Johnson ) as he takes a scientist ( Emily Blunt ) and her brother ( Jack Whitehall ) on a journeying to find a mystic tree in South America . Edgar RamírezandJesse Plemonscostar as a pair of villains who , naturally , want the film ’s magical MacGuffin for themselves and vie with Frank in the race to find the tree first . round out out the ensemble isPaul Giamatti as a harbormasterwho , while not necessarily a bad guy , is in spades " ill-humoured " .

somewhat much everything Johnson turns to box office gold nowadays and save forIndiana Jones 5(which is n’t arriving until 2020 ) , there are n’t any other studio tentpoles competing for the same niche asJungle Cruise . The film is being directed by Jaume Collet - Serra , who is alike to Verbinski in that his background in schlocky B - moving-picture show ( Non - Stop , The Shallows ) makes him an challenging cream to accommodate a Disney theme commons drive for the big screen . Jungle Cruisemay not become the box office behemoth thatPirates of the Caribbeanwas , but it has enough influence in its favour to give Johnson and Disney the hit they ’re hop for .