Dwayne Johnson has congratulated Avengers: Infinity War on its box office victory while also teasing a movie team-up with costar Chris Pratt. The Rock enjoyed a short-lived reign atop the box office with his video game movie Rampage before Infinity War hit the scene, but will soon be back for more. In fact, the ever prolific Johnson already has another action/thriller scheduled to hit theaters around two months from now. The film in question, Skyscraper, is an original feature inspired by classics of the genre like The Towering Inferno, Die Hard, and even The Fugitive according to The Rock himself.

Skyscraper is Johnson’s second film with writer and director Rawson Marshall Thurber after 2016’s Central Intelligence; a buddy action/comedy featuring The Rock and his eventual Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle costar Kevin Hart. Thurber and Johnson are already planning a return to the action/comedy world with their third original project together, in the form of Red Notice. While Johnson is the only actor officially cast in the film at the moment, it seems The Rock may already have a teammate in mind.

Details on Red Notice are being kept largely under wraps for now, but the film reportedly revolves around an Interpol agent (Johnson) hunting the world’s most wanted art thief. With a 2020 release date in place, it stands to reason that Red Notice has The Rock’s attention at the moment and is the potential team-up with Pratt that he’s referencing here. If so, the movie could end up being a match-off between the two A-listers in the vein of modern genre classics like Inside Man and Heat. Of course, since both Johnson and Pratt have a knack for blending action and comedy, one imagines that an onscreen showdown between the pair would be a bit more playful than, say, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro matching wits in Michael Mann’s crime drama in particular.

Johnson has been teaming up with actors onscreen since his early acting days on 2003’s The Rundown, but of late the formula has become his bread and butter. That trend will continue with the two films that Johnson is set to shoot this year – Disney’s Jungle Cruise (costarring Emily Blunt) and Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw (as Johnson’s team-up with Jason Statham is currently known) – and on into the two movies that he’s already gearing up to shoot next year, in the forms of Jumanji 3 and Red Notice. Whether it’s on Red Notice or another film entirely, Johnson pairing up with Pratt sounds like a fun addition to The Rock’s growing list of tag-team efforts.

KEY RELEASE DATES
Skyscraper release date: Jul 13, 2018
Untitled Fast & Furious Spinoff release date: Jul 26, 2019