THE KING (DWAYNE JOHNSON)

THE KING

Staff: Writer (Current): Randall Wallace
Producer: Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Beau Flynn, Dany Garcia
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Talent: Dwayne Johnson

Logline: Kamehameha is the legendary king who was the first to unite the warring Hawaiian islands, which fulfilled the prophecy that surrounded his fabled life since birth. He took control of Hawaii’s destiny, and gave the islanders leverage in advancing the culture in trading with the foreign ships from Europe that began showing up on the shores of islands that must have seemed like paradise, albeit a sometimes dangerous one as explorers like Simon Metcalfe and Captain James Cook discovered before Kamehameha forcibly unified the islands


Roles:
[KING KAMEHAMEHA]
Lead Male (30 - 39) Southeast Asian
"He Who Walks Alone," born under a prophesy to reunite the islands, raised in hiding not only to be a fierce warrior but a righteous king, he's super strong but with a sharp eye and a quick mind, the leader his people need just as the outsiders are discovering their paradise.
Attached Dwayne Johnson

[THUNDER]
Supporting Male (50 - 59) Southeast Asian
The enormous warrior who raises Kamehameha, his trainer, mentor, and father figure, he teaches him the tough lessons of what it really means to be King and can still mix it up when he needs to.

[VANCOUVER]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) White
The English cartographer-and our story's narrator-aboard Captain Cook's expedition, he sees the class in Kamehameha right away and, unlike most of the other Europeans, always treats him with respect and becomes a true friend.

[MAKO]
Supporting Female (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The shark-like beauty who is at one with the sea and quick with her knives, if not her heart Kamehameha has to earn that.

[KAHEKILI]
Supporting Male (50 - 59) Southeast Asian
The ferocious king of Maui and a sworn enemy of the big island...who turns out to be Kamehameha's real father, it was he who sent Thunder to protect and train him.

[KA'LANIKUPULE]
Supporting Male (30 - 39) Southeast Asian
Kahekili's son, "a born bully," he's the final King who must be defeated in the climactic battle.

[KAMA]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The young thieves become Kamehameha's first converts and soon his trusted lieutenants.

[MANU]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The young thieves become Kamehameha's first converts and soon his trusted lieutenants.

[CAPTAIN COOK]
Supporting Male (30 - 39) White
The renown explorer who is very pleased with the "discovery" of these islands a bit pompous but not villainous, though when he tries to take a chieftain prisoner he gets his head bashed in all the same.

[OLD KING]
Supporting Male (50 - 59) Southeast Asian
Not about to let an old prophesy keep his own sons from his throne, the king of the big island has tried to have Kamehameha killed from the moment of his birth.

[TAVA]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The Old King's fiercest warrior.

[KIWALA'O]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The Old King's sons, Kamehameha's cousins, who try to prove their manhood and then lose it.

[KEOUA]
Supporting Unknown (20 - 29)
The Old King's sons, Kamehameha's cousins, who try to prove their manhood and then lose it.

[KAHUNA]
Supporting Male (40 - 49) Southeast Asian
The old priest thinks the Europeans are gods.

[NAE'OLE]
Supporting Male (40 - 49) Southeast Asian
The old wise man who helped save Kamehameha and raise him.

[KEKU'IAPOWA]
Supporting Female (20 - 49) Southeast Asian
Kamehameha's mother, held captive by the Old King until she can finally exact her revenge.

[BIG BOY]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) Southeast Asian
The big but surprisingly fast warrior who joins the army, he bowls over his enemies.

[BIG BOY'S MAMA]
Supporting Female (40 - 49) Southeast Asian
A large as her son, she leads the rest of the villagers to stand beside Kamehameha as he fights for them.

[TAHITIAN]
Supporting Unknown (30 - 39) Southeast Asian
The translator who comes with the English. Open

[ISAAC DAVIS]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) White
The European who shows great Mana in battle, and ends up willfully serving Kamehameha.

[YOUNG]
Supporting Male (20 - 29) White
Another European who comes to respect and help
Kamehameha learn modern weaponry.