According to IndieWire, Johnson and Blunt—who are fashioning themselves into some kind of strange (and, based on name alone, easily meme-able) dynamic duo after multiple collaborations—brought the project to Scorsese themselves.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to lead Martin Scorsese's new mafia drama – and we're here for it. Deadline has described Johnson's character as "Robert De Niro's Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas, but as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, based on a real figure, who battled encroaching rivals for control of organized crime in Hawaii."

Dwayne Johnson is teaming up with Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese for a new crime drama that explores organized crime in Hawaii. According to Deadline, the film chronicles the story of “an aspiring mob boss” who goes up against “rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.

WWE WrestleMania returns to the Superdome in 2026. On Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson formally announced that WrestleMania 42 will take place in New Orleans on April 11 and April 12.

It doesn't sound like The Rock has aspirations of competing at WrestleMania 41, even after his absurd offer to Cody Rhodes on SmackDown