EXCLUSIVE: In the last sizzling film package of the summer, Warner Bros and New Line have won an auction for The King, an epic-sized film that will star Dwayne Johnson as Hawaiian king Kamehameha.

Dwayne Johnson will star as Hawaiian king Kamehameha ... “King” is based on a spec script written by Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”). Johnson will produce alongside his Seven Bucks ...

As Johnson flew to Hawaii to film the 2017 Disney hit Jumangi: Welcome to the Jungle, he reached out to Wallace to write the screenplay and then Zemeckis came on board and here we are.