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Dwayne Johnson is Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine trailer

April 29, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

A24 has shared the first trailer and a poster for The Smashing Machine, the biographical sports drama from writer-director Benny Safdie which sees Dwayne Johnson swapping the squared circle for the octagon to play UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Check them out below…

Joining Dwayne Johnson in the cast are Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, Bas Rutten as himself, Oleksandr Usyk as Igor Vovchanchyn, Lyndsey Gavin as Elizabeth Coleman, Satoshi Ishii as Enson Inoue, James Moontasri as Akira Shoji, Yoko Hamamura as Kazuyuki Fujita, and Stephen Quadros as himself.

The Smashing Machine arrives in cinemas on October 3rd.

 

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Benny Safdie, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, the smashing machine

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Amie Cranswick is Executive Editor of Flickering Myth, responsible for overseeing editorial coverage across film, television and pop culture.

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