SUBMITTED BY Timbo

September 23, 2003 — The Rock, who stars in the upcoming "The Rundown", is gaining traction as the next big action movie star.

With one-time box-office action giants Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis all showing their age, Johnson, 32, is poised to be their successor.

After a brief cameo in The Mummy Returns, Johnson quickly got his own Mummy feature, The Scorpion King which grossed more than $400 million.

He's already completed his third feature, a remake of Walking Tall, and opens on Friday as a bounty hunter in the action comedy The Rundown. Read the full article at the link below.