The Rundown
The Rundown (known internationally as Welcome to the Jungle) is a 2003 American buddy action comedy film directed by Peter Berg and written by James Vanderbilt and R.J. Stewart. It stars Dwayne Johnson (credited as The Rock), Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, and William Lucking. In the film, Johnson plays a bounty hunter who travels to Brazil to retrieve his employer's son (Scott). The film was released by Universal Pictures in North America and Japan and by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International under the Columbia Pictures label internationally on September 26, 2003 and made $80.9 million on an $85 million budget.
Plot
Beck is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for Billy Walker. He is sent to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and tells him that he wants out of the business.
More details
| author | James Vanderbilt |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Brazil Los Angeles |
| director | Peter Berg |
| editor | Richard Pearson |
| genre | action adventure comedy |
| keywords | assault bounty hunter capture el dorado gunshot wound jeep kill mining town paralyze rebel leader run search trap wake up |
| musicBy | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| producer | Karen Glasser Kevin Misher Marc Abraham |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Hawaii Los Angeles |
| theme | action comedy buddy comedy |