News: The Rock in Hollywood

"Touchstone Pictures has pre-emptively picked up "Blowback," a buddy action comedy with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Ryan Reynolds attached to star.

Sheldon Turner will write the script, which will be produced by Tapestry Films' Andrew Panay, Peter Abrams and Robert Levy, who are coming off the success of "Wedding Crashers."

Dark Trick Films, run by Jonathon Komack Martin and Reynolds, also will produce the film, and Reynolds will act as an executive producer.

Details on "Blowback" are being kept under wraps, but the high-concept project is being described as a modern-day "Lethal Weapon." The two main characters are San Francisco cops. "

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