The Rock Celebrates One Year Until Baywatch's Release

Promises the Avengers of the beach...

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Given how often he posts on Instagram about it, you'd be forgiven for thinking that The Rock's new take on Baywatch would be coming in a matter of weeks. You'd be wrong: it officially comes out in a year's time, on May 19th 2017.

The film has just wrapped, according to Johnson, who took to Instagram to post a celebratory postcode to herald the milestone. He also promised his film would be the Avengers of the beach.

So presumably he's the Hulk then, and David Hasselhoff is Stan Lee?

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"That's an official wrap! Holy sh*t we had a blast pushing the rated R envelope. Hilarious, bad ass and highly dysfunctional "Avenger's of the beach" come home. See you all next summer... MAY 19, 2017."

Baywatch is a difficult prospect: on the one hand it's based on one of the campest TV shows of all time and has a very particular marketing reach, and on the other, it's got The Rock in, and he literally saves a man who gets trapped in an underwater cage.

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BAEwatch more like, amirite?

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At this point, I'm pretty sure everyone would watch The Rock read the phonebook in a bath full of jelly.

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