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The Rock: the crucial rewrite that got Sean Connery on board

Summary by Film Stories
Twenty years ago, Sean Connery was looking for a blockbuster movie – but he wasn’t too pleased when he first got the script to Michael Bay’s The Rock. Sean Connery wasn’t happy. In the middle of the 1990s, an offer had gone to the former Bond star: a film called The Rock. The idea was that it’d be a big action movie, and he’d play the role of John Mason. As it happened, it was just the kind of project he was on the lookout for. The basics were t…
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Film Stories broke the news on Thursday, April 23, 2026.
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