Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans to star in holiday action-comedy Red One

In an upcoming holiday event film, Chris Evans will star alongside Dwayne Johnson. According to Deadline, the film, currently titled Red One, will begin filming this year. It's a four-quadrant, globe-trotting action-adventure comedy that imagines a whole new world to explore inside the holiday genre. Details about the plot are being kept under wraps.

The project is based on an original story written by Hiram Garcia, President of Production at Seven Bucks Productions, which Amazon Studios acquired after a competitive bidding war last year. Jake Kasdan (Jumanji franchise) is directing from a screenplay by Chris Morgan, who has previously worked with Seven Bucks Productions on films like Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, The Fate of the Furious, Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6, and Fast & Furious 5.

Kasdan is producing alongside Melvin Mar and co-producer Sky Salem Robinson through his production firm, The Detective Agency, with Morgan for Chris Morgan Productions and Johnson, Hiram Garcia, and Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks.

According to Deadline, Johnson announced his involvement with the film, which is set for a holiday release in 2023, in June, according to Deadline. While both Johnson and Evans participated in Shawn Levy's Disney comedy Free Guy in 2021, Red One is the first time the two will star in a picture together.

Evans is best known for his roles in the Marvel films Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame as Steve Rogers (aka Super Soldier Captain America). The actor will next be seen in the Netflix feature The Gray Man, directed by the Russo Brothers, and as Buzz Lightyear in Pixar's origin story Lightyear, which will be released on June 17. He's also due to star in the next Apple film, Ghosted, and is in development on an untitled Gene Kelly project, which he'll both star in and produce.

Evans also recently starred in Adam McKay's Netflix end-of-the-world comedy Don't Look Up and Mark Bomback's Apple TV+ series Defending Jacob, in which he played an assistant district attorney whose life was turned upside down when his son was accused of murder.