Dwayne Johnson Almost Quit ‘Rampage’ over Original Ending

Spoilers for Rampage follow below.

While Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage opened atop the box office last weekend, the Warner Bros.

film at one point almost lost its marquee star.

The video game adaptation marked a reunion between Johnson and his San Andreas director Brad Peyton, with Johnson filling the role of a primatologist whose friend George, an albino gorilla, is exposed to a pathogen that mutates him and two other beasts—a wolf and a crocodile—into gigantic monsters.

As the film progresses mayhem is unleashed on the U.S., destruction ensues, and it’s up to Dwayne Johnson and …

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