In the wake of Dwayne Johnson notching the highest opening of his solo star career with this weekend’s Black Adam at $67M, his holiday movie, currently titled Red One, is ramping up with additional castings: Deadline has learned that Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Mary Elizabeth Ellis are joining.

They board alongside not just Johnson, but also Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and Kiernan Shipka.

The pic’s plot is under wraps, however, the event film is looking to be a franchisable piece of IP which will extend to the tentacles of Amazon itself in merchandising.

In the wake of Dwayne Johnson notching the highest opening of his solo star career with this weekend’s Black Adam at $67M, his holiday movie, currently titled Red One, is ramping up with additional castings: Deadline has learned that Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Mary Elizabeth Ellis are joining.

They board alongside not just Johnson, but also Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and Kiernan Shipka.

The pic’s plot is under wraps, however, the event film is looking to be a franchisable piece of IP which will extend to the tentacles of Amazon itself in merchandising.

Ellis’s previous credits include MGM’s critically acclaimed film Licorice Pizza, Godmothered for Disney+, and on the television side, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for FX. Ellis is represented by UTA and Haven Entertainment.

Kimmel’s previous credits include The Book of Boba Fett and WandaVision on Disney+, Good Girls on NBC, and Netflix’s upcoming romantic comedy Your Place or Mine starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Kimmel is represented by Zuri Agency and Jackoway Tyerman.