{"id":121585,"date":"2023-12-02T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=121585"},"modified":"2023-12-01T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:53:11","slug":"red-one-the-rock-christmas-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/12\/02\/red-one-the-rock-christmas-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Red One: Can Santa Deliver The Rock&#8217;s Christmas Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson<\/strong> will star alongside <strong>Chris Evans<\/strong> in his first-ever Christmas movie<em><strong> Red One<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>Red One<\/em> sees &#8220;The Rock&#8221; take the lead role of red leather-clad Callum Drift alongside Santa Claus, played by <strong>J.K Simmons<\/strong>. A year ago, Rock teased the movie as a mix of &#8216;<em><strong>Jumanji<\/strong><\/em>,&#8217; &#8216;<em><strong>Miracle on 34th St<\/strong><\/em>,&#8217; <em><strong>Hobbs &amp; Shaw<\/strong><\/em>,&#8217; and <em><strong>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> &#8230; with a sprinkling of <em><strong>Harry Potter<\/strong><\/em>. Please, Santa &#8216;Just Bring It&#8217; in time for Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Red One Plot, Release Date, and Villain\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Rock&#8217;s Callum Drift is head of the E.L.F and looks set to protect Mankind from The Krampus. Mankind is the human race, not his former tag team partner otherwise known as <strong>Mick Foley<\/strong>. The Krampus is the anti-Santa who beats naughty children. Essentially, &#8220;The Rock&#8217;s&#8221; character is just trying to make the world a better place for Mankind. Get It.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;The Rock&#8221; confirmed the movie &#8211; also starring <strong>Lucy Lui<\/strong>, <strong>Nick Kroll<\/strong>, and <strong>Kiernan Shipka<\/strong> &#8211; wrapped filming in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8216;The People&#8217;s Champ&#8217; hopes <em>Red One<\/em> will spark a new franchise of high-octane Christmas flicks. He is set to earn &#8216;millions, and millions&#8217; from the movie. Specifically, $50M which is what he is rumored to be being paid for <em>Red One<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Red One\u2019 starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Kiernan Shipka, and Lucy Liu has officially wrapped filming. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WdtppHcRDH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WdtppHcRDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Red One Updates (@RedOneUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedOneUpdates\/status\/1622104474436116483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The film is a joint venture between <strong>Seven Bucks Productions<\/strong>, <strong>Amazon MGM Studios<\/strong>, <strong>Amazon Prime Original Films<\/strong>, <strong>The Detective Agency<\/strong>, and <strong>Chris Morgan Productions<\/strong>. It was originally slated for a 2023 release via <strong>Amazon Prime<\/strong> in time for festive viewing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So where in the blue hell is our trailer, or release date?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Strike While The Iron Is Hot\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It appears the recent<strong> Screen Actors Guild<\/strong> strike has delayed the promotion and release of the<em> Red One<\/em>. This puts the future of the picture in limbo. The studio could wait a year and launch <em>Red One<\/em> with all the bells, whistles, and tinsel it feels it deserves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Or, sneak it onto its Amazon Prime streaming service before Christmas Day like a dad returning from the pub on Christmas Eve and distributing presents under the tree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Rock&#8217;s Festive Cheer\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If <em>Red One<\/em> doesn&#8217;t make it onto Amazon Prime in time for Christmas 2023, fear not. The Rock has plenty of festive moments for you to enjoy whilst you wait for Red One to drop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/06\/15\/why-young-rock-got-canceled\/\" target=\"_self\">The <strong>Young Rock<\/strong> TV show<\/a> features two Christmas episodes. In Season 1, Ep12 &#8220;A Christmas Peril&#8221;, all three generations of Dwayne Johnson experience very different Christmases. In 1987, Dwayne and <strong>Rocky Johnson<\/strong> took jobs as a Mall Santa and Elf.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Season 3, Episode 6, &#8220;Dwanta Claus&#8221;, Dwayne learns the true meaning of gift-giving at Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But let&#8217;s be honest, nothing will beat The Rock&#8217;s 12 Days of Christmas promo from the December 20, 2001 edition of <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rock&#039;s 12 Days of Christmas: SmackDown, Dec. 20, 2001\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XlNJHaMTKLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for more on WWE Crown Jewel and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>WWE Network<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Peacock<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson will star alongside Chris Evans in his first-ever Christmas movie Red One. Red One sees &#8220;The Rock&#8221; take the lead role of red leather-clad Callum Drift alongside Santa Claus, played by J.K Simmons. A year ago, Rock teased the movie as a mix of &#8216;Jumanji,&#8217; &#8216;Miracle on 34th St,&#8217; Hobbs &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":121588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,3],"tags":[201,550],"class_list":["post-121585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-mick-foley","tag-the-rock"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}