Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest foray into film was the biopic “The Smashing Machine,” based on the lifetime of UFC veteran Mark Kerr. Johnson seemed especially obsessed with the project, and even wore prosthetics to higher depict Kerr within the film. Despite this and the nice and cozy reception the movie had on the Venice Film Festival, it has change into considered one of his worst performing movies.
Interestingly, in accordance with Dave Meltzer during an interview on “Cinema Sidetrack,” there’s one other UFC legend that Johnson should’ve played as an alternative. “The actual Mark Coleman story, I assumed can be far more interesting than Mark Kerr,” he opined. “I mean, he only had a handful of fights in UFC. But Mark Coleman had a extremely interesting… really interesting life.” Meltzer recounted how Mark Coleman balanced being a single father along with his UFC profession, and even how he recently saved his parents lives, rescuing them from a burning house.
“And, you recognize, a part of the Ohio State thing where he was molested by the doctor and being this unbeatable force in MMA, you recognize,” Meltzer added before again repeating that a movie about Coleman would’ve been much more interesting than the one made about Kerr. “Because there’s a lot to Mark Coleman, you recognize, greater than – greater than Mark Kerr so far as an interesting topic, an interesting subject.” Meltzer said he was “dumbfounded” when he learned about plans for “The Smashing Machine.”
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