SCHOOL OF ROCK. By Elena Cox

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1 SCHOOL OF ROCK By Elena Cox

2 It s been a personal project Michael has had for about a decade now and we talked about doing it together seven or eight years ago, so it s nice that it s come to fruition.

3 Johnson set to announce latest Michael Bay film Although director Michael Bay has frequently mentioned that the next movie he will make is his passion project Pain and Gain, a smaller- real-life story about bodybuildersturned-kidnappers in Miami, there ment regarding a production start stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne The Rock Johnson. During a junket promoting his the project has been in the works for years. He explains, It s been a personal project Michael has had for about a decade now and we talked about doing it together seven or eight years ago, so it s nice that it s come to fruition. It s a true story. It now appears that that announcement is coming very soon as Johnson recently told MTV News that the movie is full steam ahead and that only a few minor technicalities need to be worked out, like Wahlberg s schedule. It s going. We re on the right train and the right track, Johnson said. It s an awesome project, Pain and Gain. It s been with Michael Bay for several years now. I read it years ago; I loved it and wanted to do it then. He brought it back to me now, Johnson said. I hear Wahlberg is in talks and it looks like we re going to do it. It s a really, really cool story. The Fast Five star went on this year in order to accommodate the busy schedules of Bay, Wahlberg and Johnson. The goal would be to shoot it this year because [Bay] has Transformers to make, obviously that s Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Mark Wahlberg a juggernaut. I can t wait for that. Plus, I ve got Fast Six business, I ve got to hunt Vin Diesel down and whoever else is on my list. This will be the twenty fourth - The Mummy Returns, for which Although he was given only minutes of screen time, producers were impressed enough that they built a movie around Johnson s Mummy character, called The Scorpion King and bumped his paycheck to a whopping $5 million.

4 Johnson pays visit to his Hawaiian roots Dwayne Johnson thrilled students and teachers at his former high school while shooting Journey waii by dropping by unannounced - to see if the old place had changed since he was a teenage tearaway. The wrestler-turned-movie star grew up in Hawaii - and even landed a police record there following an arrest. But he was treated like a returning hero when he showed up at his old school, William McKinley High School during a I was a punk kid running around things I shouldn t have been doing, Johnson said. It at all the places that I got in trouble and arrested at for a multitude of things. To be able to bring a movie here, giving tens of millions of dollars to the locals and the local businesses is very special to me. I was a punk kid running around there when I was 14, getting arrested, doing a lot of things I shouldn t have been doing President William McKinley High School, Honolulu, Hawaii I visited my high school unannounced and I haven t been there since I spent so much time and started to understand the value of discipline and hard work. Word spread quickly that I was there and all the students gathered round and I had a quick word with them. wanted to know how the students and the school was doing and he was very happy and proud to tell me how well the students were doing. I told the students how, after all these years, it was great to come back and I told them to keep up the great work and keep chasing their greatness.

5 The Rock returns T - VIII. He was the guest host at last year s event, where he screwed over Cena. The next night on Monday Night Raw, Cena confronted The Rock about it and The Rock suggested setting up a one-on-one match between the two for the next WrestleMania match has ever been set up so far in advance. Johnson made his wrestling debut at at age twenty-four, the youngest wrestler to win a belt. injury, he took some time off to recuperate and to marry his longtime girlfriend Dany Garcia, who he met while playing football at University of Miami. The Rock transformed the world of wrestling, cultivated a bad-boy image and is credited with almost doubling the WWF s female fan base. He was known as The People s Champion, and his signature eyebrow move even took on a name The People s Eyebrow. In addition, The Rock became a merchandising gold mine. His image appeared on T- shirts, posters, and Halloween masks; and there were Rock video games. By ing to Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly, the WWF was bringing merchandise sales per year, thanks solely to Johnson. His autobiography, The Rock Says, was the book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing twenty weeks.