Jesse Plemons is setting sail with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney’s “The Jungle Cruise,” sources tell Variety.Plemons will play one of the film’s villains.
As previously announced, Edgar Ramirez and Jack Whitehall are also on board.Jaume Collet-Serra is directing the movie based on the classic theme park attraction, which operates in several Disney Parks across the globe and takes guests on a guided tour through the rivers of the world.
Michael Green (“Logan”) penned the most recent draft of the script, rewritten from screenplay by J.D.
Payne and Patrick McKay.Disney plans to develop the film as a possible franchise in the vein of its billion-dollar “Pirates of the Caribbean” series.John Davis and John Fox will produce via Davis Entertainment; Beau Flynn will produce with his FlynnPictureCo.
banner; and Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia will produce through Seven Bucks Productions.
Scott Sheldon is co-producing the movie,
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