Dave Bautista has been confirmed for his next movie gig.
According to Deadline, Bautista will play the lead in the upcoming action thriller Cooler. Directed by Drew Pearce, the film will begin production approximately around the summer of 2023. Dave Bautista will contribute the role of a bouncer who finds himself entailed in a scheme of blackmail and a mission to find a safe.
Deadline further detailed the plot of the thriller:
The film follows a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona, played by Bautista, who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami PD narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back… one final Herculean task on his journey towards absolution.
Bautista’s filmography has rapidly grown, with Knock at the Cabin next set to premiere in February of next year. Cooler Director Pearce spoke highly of the former pro wrestler turned actor.
“Dave is one of the most soulful and talented collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to work with,” he noted. “The chance to build an iconic character with him and make the kind of long-dark-night-of-the-soul thriller that I’ve always loved, is too good to be true. The fact that we get to do it all in Miami, guided by the epic cultural knowledge of Drake and Future The Prince, is frankly a mindblower. And there’s nobody more perfect to be our partner than Infrared, whose creative ambitions aligned perfectly with what we want this movie to be.”
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