Dave Bautista’s Dream Movie Project Announced After Viral Comments

Dave Bautista will finally get his chance to star in a rom-com.

Bautista has primarily starred in action and adventure movies up until this point in his acting career, as he’s known for playing Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, among other roles.

Bautista told Page Six in January 2023 that he’d love to star in a rom-com movie at some point but has yet to be given the opportunity.

“I know I’m not your typical rom-com lead,” he said at the time. “I’m a little rough around the edges. But I always, you know, I look in the mirror and I say, I ask myself, ‘Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing about me that excludes me from these parts?”

Since then, he’s said he’s working on multiple rom-com projects, though there’s been no official announcements about any of them until now. Now, though, Bautista’s wish has been granted as he has been officially cast in The Romantic, a new rom-com movie that comes from Paramount Pictures.

What do we know about the Dave Bautista rom-com movie The Romantic?

Per Deadline, “The film tells the story of bestselling romance author Francine London, who has a secret: she’s actually a six-foot-four mountain of a man named Ed Schwenke. When Ed’s identity comes under scrutiny, he hires a wildcard of a woman to pose as Francine at a romance fiction convention, while evading a cynical female journalist, who hates romance even more than she hates liars.”

No director is attached to the project at this time. The script comes from Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, while Maximum Effort and Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment will produce the project.

A release date for The Romantic has not yet been set. Bautista most recently starred in Paul W. S. Anderson’s In the Lost Lands, while he’ll soon be seen in Michael Dowse’s Trap House, which hits United States theaters on November 14, 2025.

Source: Comingsoon.net