Dwayne Johnson has always been a poster-picture when it comes to heroes with toothy smiles saving the cat from the tree-top. Or playing a misfit but eventually triumphant wish-granting fairy. Or stoic, but still as much an embodiment of chivalry as a DC character can get. But as times move, so does Johnson's wishes to embody something more, something different, something to help him Breakthrough. 

Being the blockbuster promise that he is, Dwayne Johnson's addition to Breakthrough has led to a breakthrough in the movie's pre-production buzz, as audiences chime in to see what it is all about.

One of Hollywood's most sought after, say, comfort actors, Dwayne Johnson is set to take on a guise that he has not yet been uncovered in. More complex, more thrilling, and with a lot more intentional moral ambiguity than Teth Adam. Teamed up with independent studio A24 and penned down by Zeke Goodman, Johnson's next venture is all but set into motion. But, awaiting a cast that is yet to fully assemble, as reported by Deadline. This rumored shift in trajectory, in terms of Johnson's career, is highly probable to landmark the fifty-three-year-old Hollywood veteran's bejeweled crown. 

As for the anticipated film, Breakthrough brings Southern California into the limelight and timed at the end of the culture-shifting millennium that had the world brought to a standstill in its wake. Taking focus on an era where self-help movements had the youth by the throat, the story follows a young man who gets involved headfirst in the consequences of these movements. It is the charismatic and magnetic, unignorable guru responsible for the young man's spiral, that Johnson is expected to play. With a directorial cast yet to be appointed, the film stands at a pre-production level as of now. 

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While the role of a conniving guru might be a new path to tread for audiences, it cannot be said that the WWE star had not ever teased such a possibility before. 

Dwayne Johnson has been seeing dipping his toes into different waters as of late, and his recent most Smashing Machines is an exception from his usual ventures, in proof. Taking on the caricature roles of real-life MMA prevailing Mark Kerr, the intense transformation, results of which had even had spectators comparing resemblances to John Cena,  was nothing short of a spectacle. Portraying the vices of addiction and its struggles, topped with difficult relationships, his latest persona takes off from his usual action-hero guise. 

Dwayne Johnson's gear shifting, however, is not uninvited by the audience. Welcoming the change with time and the actor's reflective disposition. His re-teaming with A24 has the spectators anticipating with abated breaths for his tempting role as the complex, enigmatic motivational-guru, ready to be spell bound by the actor. The shift in trajectory creates the friction that Johnson's career could make use of, changing from the Hollywood heroics. 

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