Doom Gi Joe Retaliation Jumanji and Rampage how Dwayne Johnson turned video game movies to hollywood blockbusters

This horror science fiction flicker was Dwayne's first entry into movies based on video games. Though it did not do much on box office collections but put The Rock, on the eyes of the directors.

Dwayne Johnson, the wrestler from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is one of the highest grossing actors that Hollywood has as of now. Many does not know that his major success has come from movies which are based on video games. Since 2005 starting with Doom till 2017 with Rampage and Jumanji, Dwayne Johnson has turned out to be the Midas of directors to turn their flicks to money minting machine at the same time entertaining the audience world over. Let us take a walk through photographs of the journey of,'the Rock'.

Doom, Gi Joe Retaliation, Jumanji and Rampage, how Dwayne Johnson turned video game movies to Hollywood blockbusters

Gi Joe Retaliation is a movie based on the famous Gi Joe Cobra Strike 1983. A fan-made game based on the classic, attack On Cobra Island was released as a free download in March 2012. It earned a worldwide gross of around $375,740,705.

Doom, Gi Joe Retaliation, Jumanji and Rampage, how Dwayne Johnson turned video game movies to Hollywood blockbusters

At 2017, Dwayne Johnson is shooting for Rampage, based on Midway Games Inc's famous game on the same name. The movie will tell the story of failed scientific experiments in the jungle which results in the genetic edition of a rare white albino gorilla, a wolf and a crocodile which displays unpredictable behavior and goes on a full Rampage of Chicago and destroying everything that comes on the way.

Doom, Gi Joe Retaliation, Jumanji and Rampage, how Dwayne Johnson turned video game movies to Hollywood blockbusters

Dwayne Johnson will be seen battling George, the rare white albino gorilla, a 30 foot wolf and a crocodile, all of which are showing extremely violent behaviour as a result of genetic edition.

Doom, Gi Joe Retaliation, Jumanji and Rampage, how Dwayne Johnson turned video game movies to Hollywood blockbusters

Jumanji is a North American-exclusive game for Microsoft Windows that was released on 1996, which was based on the 1995 film of the same title. It will be interesting to see how Dwayne Johnson does justice to the board game based movie.