Dwayne Johnson Pokes Fun At RAMPAGE Moving Its Release To Avoid Competition With AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

In light of Rampage getting a new release date, the film's star Dwayne Johnson has a little fun addressing Hollywood's game of chess, posting a video addressing the competition with Avengers: Infinity War.

By MattIsForReal - Mar 07, 2018 12:03 AM EST

Filed Under: Video Games

Last night, Warner Bros. announced that it would be bumping the theatrical release of its video game adaptation Rampage up one week to April 13 (from its original April 20 date). The move came shortly after Disney announced that it's own blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War would also be releasing one week earlier, moving from May 4 to April 27. While the studio didn't flat out admit the reason behind the move was due to the new Avengers date, it was pretty obvious to just about everyone.

And now, Rampage star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has taken to social media to address Hollywood's latest game of musical chairs. Having a little fun with the situation, Johnson claimed in his video that Rampage's new release date had "nothing to do" with Marvel moving up the release of Avengers: Infinity War. Rather, the real motivation behind the move, according to the actor, was to avoid "giving away any of our spoilers."

He's joking, of course. And in a more honest message accompanying the video, Johnson said: "These movie release dates are always a chess game, and in the end I want EVERYONE playing to win. And now that we’ve moved to April 13th, it pretty much guarantees that I’ll be home for the birth of my baby daughter - so thank you Mr. Stark. We all win. And if you Avengers ever wanna have a lil’ fun and Rumble... you know where to find me."

Let's face it, Rampage never had a chance against Avengers: Infinity War and everyone - including Warner Bros. execs and Dwayne Johnson knew it. So while the change of dates isn't a surprise to anyone, it's fun to see Dwayne Johnson have a little fun with it.

Check out the full video below which includes some light "spoilers" (but not really) for Rampage.

Alert 🚨: THE RAMPAGE is officially unleashed around world APRIL 13th. Of course it had nothing to do with Tony Stark and his Avenger gang moving their release date up a week 😉 These movie release dates are always a chess game, and in the end I want EVERYONE playing to win. And now that we’ve moved to April 13th, it pretty much guarantees that I’ll be home for the birth of my baby daughter - so thank you Mr. Stark. We all win. And if you Avengers ever wanna have a lil’ fun and Rumble... you know where to find me. APRIL 13th - THE RAMPAGE BEGINS WORLDWIDE. 🐊🦍🐺

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Mar 5, 2018 at 9:49pm PST

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21 Comments

NOVAtheSUPA - 3/7/2018, 12:17 AM

bobevanz - 3/7/2018, 4:43 AM

Who gives a flying [frick] about this movie?

Equivocal - 3/7/2018, 11:45 AM

@bobevanz -

that's what I'm thinking right now....

it doesn't appeal to me at all

judging for the trailer alone, it looks like a flop
same happened with jumanji trailer
and see how it turn out ?
at this point
who knows ??

bobevanz - 3/7/2018, 12:00 PM

@Equivocal - Very true lol. Delusions of Grandeur I suppose

permaturenut - 3/7/2018, 8:00 AM

noooOOOOOOOO!!!!!!... you guys do see it??!!! its [frick]ing obvious!!! the rock was meant for one role only in marvel! HE MUST PLAY BETA RAY BILL!!! BOOOM MIND [frick]ING BLOWN SON! he actually loves the bull symbol, he can easily do CGI rendering to make himself into the image and plus....he can make the character his own! He can be seen kicking thor's ass! also getting to fight the hulk...and getting his (betta rays's ass kicked) by the hulk would be bad ass! omg im a [frick]ing genius! someone get feige on the phone!???

permaturenut - 3/7/2018, 8:05 AM

and the rock as beta ray bill in his own franchise going across the universe fighting crazy shit alien pirates like the space jammers or shatter star, and getting pulling into the shi'ar'd wars and the 'war of king' and fighting cosmic beings and having to bring back his dying species...just would be epic! [frick] im a genius

BlackPhillip - 3/7/2018, 9:33 AM

@permaturenut - Rock as BRB or Gladiator would be dope.

BlackPhillip - 3/7/2018, 9:31 AM

He needs to be in the MCU. He can play Gladiator, now that he's in the MCU. Heck, he can play Beta Ray Bill.

IndominusTitan - 3/7/2018, 9:32 AM

How dare he insult Godzilla like that

BlackStar25 - 3/7/2018, 9:57 AM

Is there really hype and anticipation for this movie?

Kadara - 3/7/2018, 12:28 PM

Probably the best publicity this movie could've gotten lol!!

SwampThing - 3/7/2018, 7:01 PM

This guy is just really likable. He knows how to play this game.

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