Written by James Fohl

After a very impressive and amusing career in wrestling, actor Dwayne Johnson, better
known as "The Rock" has launched himself into the world of acting. After a brief
appearance in the The Mummy Returns, Dwayne now credited as The Rock is his movie appearances
was given the starring role in the movie "The Scorpion King", which brought in over
ninety million dollars, and gave him a record breaking $5.5 million dollar salary for the movie.

Shortly after the blockbuster, "The Scorpion King", The Rock starred in another movie called
"The Rundown", which placed The Rock with Seann William Scott in another action flick. The movie
was really successful, and put The Rock on the favorite actor list of many action movie
buffs. Following The Rundown, The Rock starred in a remake of a movie entitled "Walking Tall"
along with Johnny Knoxville. Although the movie has a lot of fans, it has been criticized
because of its very short leg nth ( eighty six minutes), and because the movie is more
focused upon the action elements in the movie instead of character development.

Even With Critics Bashing His Movies Left And Right, The Rock Still Manages To Sign Onto A
Variety Of Different Movie Projects Stated To Be Released In The Coming Years

Despite the above criticism about "Walking Tall", The Rock has signed onto a variety of projects in the past year, most
notably because every movie he has starred in has brought in a nice chunk of change. In 2005,
movie goers will be able to see him in the comedy "Be Cool" as well as the horror movie, "Doom"
which is based on the popular id Software video game series.

While he only has two movies due in 2005, 2006 seems to be a fairly busy year for The Rock, as
he has several movie projects going on. Of all the movies on the list, another is a movie
based on a video game, this time the video game is the 1980's arcade classic "Spy Hunter". Another
popular franchise that The Rock hopes to take onto the big screen is a live action version
of Cartoon Network's popular "Johnny Bravo" cartoon.

The Future Looks Quite Bright For This Former Wrestling Champion And Future Acclaimed Actor

It seems that after nearly five years of being an actor rather than a wrestler is starting to pay off.
There is no doubt that while he was a professional wrestler for the WWE (formerly the WWF) he was one
of the most popular wrestlers, and is credited with the large amount of success the WWE had obtained
during the second half of the nineties. Now, he is quickly gaining attention on the big screen, most
notably with action flicks, although he has appeared in a comedy role (Be Cool). As every movie he
stars in gains him more attention from the media, hopefully he will build on his acting skills instead
of going the opposite direction towards a lineup of awful movies as many actors have done in the past.