No, we don’t mean Dave Bautista will be Han Solo. Instead, Bautista is ready to take the leap from co-starring in movies to actually getting his own main starring role in an…
No, we don’t mean Dave Bautista will be Han Solo. Instead, Bautista is ready to take the leap from co-starring in movies to actually getting his own main starring role in an action-comedy film called Dogtown. While Baustista has gotten fame from the WWE, he’s probably best known to audiences all over for his portrayal of the hilariously inept-at-understanding-metaphors Drax the Destroyer of Guardians of the Galaxy. Dogtown will be similar territory, as it is based on a comic book from Dark Horse Comics entitled Body Bags.
Body Bags was created by comic book artist Jason Pearson, who is probably best known for his work on Deadpool and X-Men comics. Like Deadpool, Body Bags is chock full of irreverent humor and is highly stylized. For Dogtown, Bautista will play the main character Mack Delgado, a bounty hunter whose work is so good he’s earned the title of “body bagger”. His dark life gets flipped turned upside down when a teen daughter he never knew he had shows up at his doorstep hoping to create a relationship, which of course makes things complicated.
Dogtown is looking to start production this fall with a script from John Wick 2 writer Kyle Ward. Who will play Bautista’s daughter is unknown at this time, but it does seem that, while it’s a comic book film, it’s something much bigger for Bautista. Being that he comes from the WWE, it’s hard to not draw comparisons to The Rock, but with a film choice like this and his turn towards more dramatic roles (though still action-orientated), like Blade Runner 2049 and the upcoming Hotel Artemis, then Bautista might just prove to have more range in acting than even The Rock himself.
- Kevin Donaldson, YH Contributing Writer
