Former WWE superstar turned actor Dave Bautista has landed a new movie role, with Bautista to star in Drew Pearce’s action thriller movie “Cooler”, according to a report from Deadline, who note that production is expected to start in Summer 2023.

The synopsis for the movie notes that it is about “a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona (Bautista), who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back, but when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami PD narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back, one final Herculean task on his journey towards absolution.”