A Duke Nukem movie is within the works, with John Cena rumoured to play the title function

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie, which is at present and not using a author, script, or director, can be produced by Transformer director Micheal Bay’s Platinum Dunes studio, having been arrange by Paramount. The rights to the Duke Nukem franchise had been acquired from Borderlands developer Gearbox Studios.

The character himself first appeared in 1991’s imaginatively-titled Duke Nukem. Initially meant as a mash-up for varied motion determine tropes, by the point 2011’s Duke Nukem Forever got here round, Duke had grow to be an awkwardly offensive caricature. The character’s most up-to-date look was in final 12 months’s Bulletstorm DLC, the place he additionally did not make a lot of an impression.

John Cena rose to fame as an expert wrestler. In current years he has starred in characteristic movies Daddy’s Home and its sequel, and is about to seem in Bumblebee, a Transformers spinoff additionally produced by Micheal Bay.