Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista Will Face-off Against This ‘Dracula’ Star in New Buddy Comedy

Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista team up for buddy comedy The Wrecking Crew, directed by Ángel Manuel Soto.
The film follows a loose cannon cop and disciplined Navy SEAL unraveling a conspiracy in Hawaii.
Claes Bang joins the cast as the villain, with a script by Banshee creator Jonathan Tropper.

After two successful collaborations in Dune and See, Jason Momoa will again team up with Dave Bautista in a buddy comedy titled The Wrecking Crew. Bautista himself pitched the idea for the feature in a 2021 X (formerly Twitter) post before Amazon MGM came on board. Since , the project appeared to have been placed on the back burner with its progress seemingly hampered by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. However, we are now learning via that the project is now receiving more attention with a new cast update. Danish actor Claes Bang (The Square) has been tapped for a role in the movie that will pit him against Momoa and Bautista’s characters.

Bautista, in his tweet, teased the plot as “a Lethal Weapon-type buddy cop movie.” Now, new details per the official synopsis reveal that The Wrecking Crew will follow “two half-brothers — one a loose cannon cop (Momoa) and the other a disciplined Navy SEAL (Bautista). After 20-odd years of bad blood, they must work together to unravel the conspiracy behind their father’s murder in Hawaii.” Bautista originally suggested The Fall Guy director David Leitch step into the director’s chair. However, the role would eventually go to Soto, whose innovative vision for Blue Beetle’s origin story earned significant praise. It will be Soto’s first attempt at directing an action comedy, which he seems quite capable of given how he was able to fuse a lot of fun into Blue Beetle.

Not much detail about Bang’s role has been revealed other than that he will play the villain, which means his character will face off against dual protagonists Momoa and Bautista. The project reunites Momoa and Bautista with who served as the showrunner for the pair’s science fiction series, See. Tropper completed the script for the movie right before the WGA strike. His recent writing gigs include scripts for Shawn Levy‘s new Star Wars movie and Chris Hemsworth‘s Apple sci-fi The Corsair Code. The Wrecking Crew will be produced by 6th & Idaho’s Lynn Harris and Matt Reeves, along with Bautista, Momoa, and Jeffrey Fierson.

The Wrecking Crew adds to a growing number of Bang’s upcoming projects, including Bonjour Tristesse slated to premiere this fall at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. He appeared in a couple of recently released period pieces, including Stockholm Bloodbath co-starring Emily Beecham as well as the Russian fantasy drama, The Master and Margarita, which was released to record box office numbers in Russia.

He will next be seen in the epic thriller William Tell as the titular 14th-century hero famed for his skills as a marksman. Bang currently stars in Apple TV+’s biographical series, The New Look, recently renewed for Season 2, and the crime thriller comedy series, The Outlaws on Prime Video.

Amazon MGM is yet to set a release date for The Wrecking Crew, but stay tuned for updates.