According to IndieWire, Johnson and Blunt—who are fashioning themselves into some kind of strange (and, based on name alone, easily meme-able) dynamic duo after multiple collaborations—brought the project to Scorsese themselves.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will reunite with Emily Blunt in Martin Scorsese's next Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has found his next role, landing a part in Martin Scorsese's next Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie, which also stars Emily Blunt.

Dwayne Johnson is teaming up with Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese for a new crime drama that explores organized crime in Hawaii. According to Deadline, the film chronicles the story of “an aspiring mob boss” who goes up against “rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.