John Cena is motherfucking Duke Nukem. - Many aliens will be disrespected.

[Ruin]

The wrestler-turned-actor is negotiations to star in Duke Nukem, a big-screen adaptation of the popular video game franchise featuring the politically incorrect action hero that is set up at Paramount.

Platinum Dunes, the company run by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, will produce the movie.

No director is on board at this stage. A search for a writer will begin soon to develop a script for what is intended to be a star vehicle for Cena.

The Nukem video games follow muscular adventures of its titular protagonist, who initially was a mash-up of action hero tropes. The muscular cigar-chomping figure has been fighting aliens in order to save planet Earth since 1991 when the first game was released.

The project was previously set up at Dimension Films.

Platinum Dunes is one of the companies behind The Purge action franchise and has produced the Ninja Turtles movies for Paramount. It next has the John Krasinski-directed horror movie A Quiet Place opening April 6.

Cena has quietly made Paramount his de facto movie home, having appeared in the studio’s Daddy Home 2, which has grossed over $100 million domestically, and is due to appear in Bumblebee, the studio’s Transformers spinoff that Bay produced.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

@Duke Nukem

 

[Tranhuviya]

This is actually perfect casting. I don't see this ever getting off the ground at all, though. Unless Epic (or was it Gearbox?) cares enough to revive the series just to tie-in with this movie, and makes it...a modicum better than their last attempt. Otherwise, this will languish in development hell like every other video game adaptation.

 

[Ruin]

This is actually perfect casting. I don't see this ever getting off the ground at all, though. Unless Epic (or was it Gearbox?) cares enough to revive the series just to tie-in with this movie, and makes it...a modicum better than their last attempt. Otherwise, this will languish in development hell like every other video game adaptation.

They have to fund this shit. I'll burn stuff down if Boss baby 2 gets funded but 2 hours of John Cena giving the finger to aliens and pissing on pigmen never gets made.

 

[IV 445]

This is actually perfect casting. I don't see this ever getting off the ground at all, though. Unless Epic (or was it Gearbox?) cares enough to revive the series just to tie-in with this movie, and makes it...a modicum better than their last attempt. Otherwise, this will languish in development hell like every other video game adaptation.

Yeah Duke Nukem has a niche fan base. With Doom, there was some infamy behind the franchise name. But The Duke is only well known to a small percentage.

Some other video game movies pop up, but for the most part they were lame crap.

Now a movie based on Grand Theft Auto would be pretty entertaining. Keep the writers, get some good character-actors and it might not suck.

 

[Fareal]

Fuck yes

 

[Duke Nukem]

Please make this happen and don't let the SJWs ruin it again.

 

[Neil]

Hopefully they'll have John St. John dub over Cena as an extra in the eventual blu-ray release.

There is one and only ONE true voice for Duke Nukem.

 

[Somsnosa]

I guess Cena wants to roll The Rock way. The Fred movies and this are a weak start but the skits in Fred with him were genuine fun
Can he handle being the protagonist though? Who knows. I just hope in good amounts of tits and cheesy lines. Bay is good at those

 

[Y2K Baby]

Please.

 

[Bob Page]

Yeah Duke Nukem has a niche fan base. With Doom, there was some infamy behind the franchise name. But The Duke is only well known to a small percentage.

Some other video game movies pop up, but for the most part they were lame crap.

Now a movie based on Grand Theft Auto would be pretty entertaining. Keep the writers, get some good character-actors and it might not suck.

If a GTA film gets made, get Steven Ogg as Trevor Phillips.

Hopefully they'll have John St. John dub over Cena as an extra in the eventual blu-ray release.

There is one and only ONE true voice for Duke Nukem.

Already, Jon St. John is up in arms about it. He's been talking about it on his personal Facebook and Twitter.

 

[XYZpdq]

Now a movie based on Grand Theft Auto would be pretty entertaining. Keep the writers, get some good character-actors and it might not suck.

iirc the deal Rockstar made with the makers of Ron Howard In Grand Theft Auto is that if they agreed to never ever ever make a movie based on the game then they wouldn't sue them to death over using the name for the game.

 

[tehpope]

Hopefully they don't bungle the movie by trying to make it PG-13. Make it R rated. IIRC, John Cena is more family friendly, so hopefully this won't happen.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

If Cena is still with WWE then there's no way this shit show will work.

...However if he's not and it can be a hard R, it would be the perfect candidate for a Michael Bay action 'splosion shit show.

 

[Devilish Jack o Lantern]

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

With the average Duke Nukem game coming out once every 25 years, this movie will be out next century.

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

Please make this happen and don't let the SJWs ruin it again.

He is one.

 

[Duke Nukem]

He is one.

 

[LN 910]

The aliens can't see him.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

Michael Bay better get it done before the weird stuff comes out.

If Cena is still with WWE then there's no way this shit show will work.

...However if he's not and it can be a hard R, it would be the perfect candidate for a Michael Bay action 'splosion shit show.

I'm pretty sure WWE actors have some kind of fucked life contract. But hey, Roddy Piper did They Live, so maybe you shouldn't worry on that end.