Simon West (Con Air) will direct Dwayne Johnson in the action thriller Protection. Set in Mexico City Johnson will play a disgraced former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard of a judge's 21-year-old daughter who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of a member of a powerful Mexican cartel.
The pair go on the run across both sides of the border with the cartel's enforcers, who want to kill the girl before she can testify, in close pursuit.
West had previously been attached but left the pic-then Clive Owen and director Patrick Alessandrin were going to make the fillm but both recently left as well.
Brandon Noonan wrote.the script.
Johnson, Stuart Ford, Robert Lawrence, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray will produce.
Filming kicks off this Fall in New Mexico.
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