A trailer for a film called The Insect has surfaced online, leaving fans questioning whether the footage featuring Dwayne Johnson is real or fake. Many are also curious about whether Johnson will star in The Insect and if the film itself actually exists. Recently, the rise of highly convincing fan-made or AI-generated footage has often misled audiences, making it difficult to distinguish real projects from fabricated ones.
Is The Insect trailer with Dwayne Johnson real or fan-made? Will the Fast & Furious star appear in the movie? Here are your answers.
Is The Insect trailer with Dwayne Johnson real or fake?
The Insect trailer with Dwayne Johnson is fake and fan-made.
This fan-made footage was created by KH Studio, a YouTube channel known for producing concept trailers. As of now, the trailer has amassed 682.8 million views and 2.1k likes. In the video description, KH Studio describes the film as “a creature feature like no other.”
You can check out the trailer below:
The trailer, whose opening clips use the introduction cards of Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema, predominantly features AI-produced shots and videos. Additionally, interspersed in between are clips from Johnson’s other films, like Rampage. Through the footage, the trailer presents a story of a man fighting an insect infestation that has plagued Earth.
The footage features an AI-generated synthetic voiceover mimicking Dwayne Johnson. In the narration, Johnson’s character says he participated in an experiment by a secretive organization. The AI-generated voice also reveals that he awakens something deep beneath the surface and transforms it into a weapon. Additionally, the character expresses regret, stating that he should have walked away and revealing that the experiment was never truly about science but about control.
Will Dwayne Johnson appear in The Insect?
Dwayne Johnson has not been confirmed to appear in The Insect, and there is no official confirmation that such a film is in development.
Johnson is currently set to star as former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, in Benny Safdie‘s sports biopic The Smashing Machine.
