Just when you thought Dwayne Johnson was getting back to doing more action-oriented movies for grown ups such as Faster and The Fast and the Furious 5, he goes and signs on for something like this. I guess family films are where the money is, but it still seems more than a little embarrassing to be picking up Brendan Fraser’s sloppy seconds. When it was first announced that Fraser would not be returning for the sequel to the 3-D adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth, a lot of people wondered how Josh Hutcherson could possibly carry the film on his own. Now we know that he won’t have to, if you smell what Dwayne Johnson is cooking.

According to Heat Vision, Johnson will play the boyfriend of Hutcherson’s mom, who ends up being forced along on a family trip to find their missing grandfather. The movie is being titled Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, and the story supposedly draws from Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island, about a group of people stranded on a volcanic island filled with wild animals, pirates and monsters. Brad Peyton (Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore) will direct, and like its predecessor, the movie will be shot in 3-D. Do you have any interest in seeing Journey 2?