Variety reported yesterday that New Line's upcoming video game movie adaptation, Rampage, is currently tracking for a pretty solid opening weekend in the $35 million range and box office pundits are expecting it to go even higher as promotional efforts begin to ramp up heading into April.
The studio has also released the first clip from the movie, featuring Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) doing his best to calm the genetically mutated George (Jason Liles), an albino silverback gorilla, after he escapes captivity, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
Brad Peyton helmed the monster feature with a cast featuring Dwayne Johnson (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Malin Åkerman (Watchmen), Joe Manganiello (Justice Leaguearle), Jake Lacy (The Office), Marley Shelton (Scream 4), and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural).
Check out Johnson's announcement, which features a new mini-trailer, below
Check out all three new posters below:
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Rampage features:
Director: Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson as Davis Okoye
Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell
Malin Åkerman as Claire Wyden
Joe Manganiello as Burke
Jake Lacy in an undisclosed role
Marley Shelton in an undisclosed role
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Agent Russell
Jason Liles as George
P. J. Byrne in an undisclosed role
Jack Quaid in an undisclosed role
Matt Gerald in an undisclosed role
Demetrius Gross in an undisclosed role
Will Yun Lee as Agent Park
Breanne Hill as Amy
Urijah Faber in an undisclosed role
Rampage smashes its way into theaters April 20