Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista is clearly as excited as cinemagoers to see him share the screen with fellow action movie star Jason Momoa, with the actor taking to social media to celebrate the news of their buddy-cop idea selling to MGM. The studio is expected to emerge from the recent bidding war victorious, meaning that they will handle the project, which stemmed from a tweet by Bautista himself.

“2 months 11 days wait time. Acceptable! We came, We hugged, We conquered. Proud AF of this accomplishment,” Bautista said alongside an image of his original social media pitch. “We materialized this from nothing more than love, respect and a desire to work together again. #Grinders #DreamChasers #GameChangers. Love you brother [Jason Momoa]. We manifested the sh*t out of this! Big Love over Big Egos. We win!”

The Bautista-Momoa buddy-cop movie will see the formidable duo playing brothers in an action outing akin to the iconic Lethal Weapon franchise, with the action stars solving a case in Hawaii. “Just going to throw this out into the atmosphere and see what happens,” Bautista said in the original tweet. “Here we go…Me and Momoa in a Lethal Weapon-type buddy cop movie directed by David Leitch. Ok! There it is. Now we wait.” Bautista is clearly hugely excited to get started, and is rightly very proud of achieving an actual movie from a simple social media suggestion.

The buddy-cop flick does not yet have a director (though Bautista has since thrown the spot-on suggestion of John Wick and Nobody helmer David Leitch), but it has been revealed that Jonathan Tropper (Warrior, The Adam Project) is on board to write the script, with the initial idea coming from a conversation between Tropper, Bautista and Momoa.

This will not be the first time that Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa have added their A-list names to the same project, with the pair having recently played estranged, warring brothers in the Apple TV+ series, {See}. While Momoa led the first season of the post-apocalyptic adventure as Baba Voss, a fearless warrior and the leader of the Alkenny Tribe, he is joined in season 2 by Bautista as Edo Voss, the vengeful younger brother of Baba Voss and the Commander General of the Trivantian army, the rival kingdom of Payan.

Bautista and Momoa are once again on opposite sides of an epic war in director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the seminal sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, Dune. The movie follows Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive.

Dave Bautista plays Glossu Rabban, who is aptly known as Beast, the nephew of Baron Harkonnen, with the latter portraying the superbly named Duncan Idaho, the swordmaster of House Atreides and one of Paul's mentors. While Bautista does not feature much in the first Dune, he is expected to have a much bigger part to play in the upcoming sequel, Dune: Part Two, which was recently confirmed for release on Oct. 20, 2023. This comes to us from Dave Bautista’s official Instagram account.