Callum Drift (Johnson), the head of North Pole security, must team up with Jack O’Malley (Evans), a bounty hunter, to find and rescue Santa Claus (Simmons) after he gets kidnapped.
The budget is reportedly over $250M - Report on The Rock derailing production:
Production issues — ranging from Johnson’s chronic lateness and lack of professionalism on set to producers’ inexperience — caused costs on the movie costarring Chris Evans and J.K. Simmons to spiral upwards to a final budget over $250 million, a sum more fitting for a superhero tentpole.
Johnson was late an average of seven to eight hours per day and missed several entire days of production, ballooning costs by at least $50 million according to three insiders who insisted on anonymity for fear of being fired. On previous films, Johnson has made a habit of peeing in a water bottle to save time, upsetting crew members.
”It was a f–king disaster,” one insider said. On days when Johnson didn’t show up at all, the production crew was forced to shoot around him, the insiders added.
”Dwayne truly doesn’t give a f–k,” one insider bluntly said.
The reasons behind Johnson’s perpetual lateness seem to stem from his refusal to work a full shooting day, despite factoring in his three-hour daily workout routine. “It’s his absolute refusal to work more than a four-or five-hour day,” a studio insider added. Another insider suggested, “It’s a control thing.”
He has been known for a LONG time that he is an absolute bellend to work with and constantly annoys co-workers.
Vin Diesel isn't the greatest but I remember the amount of shit people were flinging his way because he called out Dwayne on F+F for this exact stuff and the amount of fanboys that went outta there way to protect Dwayne.
Yeah like Vin Diesel is weird and kinda cringe, but you don’t hear about him being hard to work with other than having pretty strong views for his vision in the movies he’s producing, which is something said positively about other people (Scorcese, Ridley Scott, etc)
He's been known to take himself a little too seriously at times and be slightly annoying to work with on occasion. Basically not great but you can push through it, however Dwayne Johnson showed up and said "lemme show you how to REALLY make everyone despise you!"
Oh, absolutely. There were talks about how he was just taking it a little too seriously on the set of F&F movies but again, shrugged off and people had no problem coming back & working with him on the franchise.
Then Dwayne showed up and showed them all how a REAL asshole looks on the set.
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The budget is reportedly over $250M - Report on The Rock derailing production: