WWE SuperstarJohn Cenaand acclaimed actorAaron Taylor-Johnsonare both fighting for their lives when pinned down by an enemy sniper in the first trailer forThe Wall. Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions will releaseThe Wallin theaters on July 11, 2025, putting it up against Warner Bros.' massive adventureKong: Skull Island. Before this story came to the big screen, it was just one of many scripts that was uploaded to the Amazon Studios website.
The Wallbecame the first spec script that Amazon Studios bought back in November 2014, and it landed on The Black List a month later. WriterDwain Worrellwas working as a translator in China when he heard a story about a legendary Iraqi sniper, which he used as the basis for his storyThe Wall. He uploaded the script in August 2014, which lead to Amazon buying the script, and the writer landing his first manager and agent. Less than three years afterDwain Worrelluploaded his script to Amazon Studios, this story will hit the big screen.Dwain Worrellhas also been attached to write asci-fi thrillerentitledMindcorpforRoboCopremake directorJose Padilha.
The Wallis a deadly psychological thriller that follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship. Directed byDoug Liman(Mr. & Mrs. Smith,The Bourne Identity,Edge of Tomorrow),The WallstarsAaron Taylor Johnson(Nocturnal Animals,Kick-Ass,SavagesGodzilla,Avengers: Age of Ultron) and WWE starJohn Cena(Trainwreck,Sisters,Daddy’s Home), and is written by first-time screenwriterDwain Worrellfrom his Black List script.The Wallis produced by Amazon Studios.
The only other cast member listed isLaith Naklias Juba, the sniper who has these American soldiers trapped. Juba is the pseudonym for an real-life legendary Iraqi sniper who claimed to have killed 37 Americans in a series of videos that surfaced online between 2005 and 2007. The 2014 blockbusterAmerican Sniperalso mentions a mythical sniper much like Juba, although he was known as Mustafa inChris Kyle’s book and the movie it was adapted from. Very little is known about Juba, but it was believed that he was killed by ISIL in either 2013 or 2014.
DirectorDoug LimandirectedThe Wallafter production was delayed on his superhero spin-offGambit, which hasChanning Tatumattached to star. The director was expected to filmThe Wallbefore returning to start pre-production onGambit, although that didn’t exactly happen.Doug Limandropped out ofGambitin August, instead moving over to the DC side of the superhero spectrum to directJustice League Dark. Take a look at the thrilling first trailer forThe Wall, as we get closer to the March 10 release date.
