{"id":30255,"date":"2025-06-14T23:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:54:30","slug":"darren-aronofsky-reportedly-to-direct-breakthrough-starring-dwayne-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=30255","title":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky Reportedly to Direct &#8216;Breakthrough&#8217; Starring Dwayne Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Photo by Photo credit: Niko Tavernise &#8211; \u00a9\u00a0MMXIV Paramount Pictures Corporation and Regency Engtertainment (USA), Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\r\n<p>Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004716\/\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a> is reportedly in early conversations to direct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37008269\/\"><em><strong>Breakthrough<\/strong><\/em>,<\/a> an A24 movie that will star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0425005\/\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a>. If things go as planned, Aronofsky will be returning to A24 after directing <em><strong>The Whale<\/strong><\/em>, which won an Academy Award for Brendan Fraser. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>As described by the logline for <em><strong>Breakthrough<\/strong><\/em>: \u201cIn turn-of-the-millennium Southern California, an alienated young man comes under the influence of a motivational guru, whose intoxicating charm masks his morally questionable methods of manipulation and his own concealed darkness.\u201d Johnson will be playing a supporting role in the film. Casting has not yet been completed for the role of the young man or any of the other characters, according to published reports.<\/p>\r\n<p>A24 will be producing and financing <strong><em>Breakthrough<\/em><\/strong>, with Shiny Penny Productions producing along with Seven Bucks Productions, a group connected with both Dwayne Johnson and Danny Garcia. Executive producers will be Jacob Epstein and Justin Wolfe of Lighthouse Management and Media.<\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<p>Aronofsky\u2019s most recent project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1493274\/\"><em><strong>Caught Stealing<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a thriller by Sony starring Austin Buffer and Zoe Kravitz, which will make its debut in August. This would also be the second A24 movie for Johnson, the star of Benny Safdie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11214558\/\"><em><strong>The Smashing Machine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which is scheduled for release in October.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Dwayne Johnson also confirmed that he will be appearing as a Hawaiian crime boss opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt in a new movie by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese. Speaking of\u00a0 this project, Johnson said he was \u201cgrateful for what\u2019s been the most creatively inspiring time of my career &#8211; working closely with my friends and of course, the maestro Marty Scorsese. In the 60\u2019s, 70\u2019s &amp; 80\u2019s the mafia controlled New York, Miami, Chicago, Vegas, and ]had] a particularly strong hold on the island I was raised &#8211; Hawaii. Much more to come. <em>Aloha nui loa.<\/em>&#8221; A name and official release date for this movie have not yet been announced.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more articles by Edward.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Photo credit: Niko Tavernise &#8211; \u00a9\u00a0MMXIV Paramount Pictures Corporation and Regency Engtertainment (USA), Inc. All Rights Reserved. Director Darren Aronofsky is reportedly in early conversations to direct Breakthrough, an A24 movie that will star Dwayne Johnson. If things go as planned, Aronofsky will be returning to A24 after directing The Whale, which won&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[27356,23822,11008,1154,2061,27357,26841,10725],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Darren Aronofsky Reportedly to Direct &#039;Breakthrough&#039; Starring Dwayne Johnson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director Darren Aronofsky is reportedly in early conversations to direct Breakthrough, an A24 movie that will star Dwayne Johnson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=30255\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Aronofsky Reportedly to Direct &#039;Breakthrough&#039; 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