Another macho man has made the obligatory leap into the kiddie pool. This time it's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who has gone and starred opposite a child in this weekend's new release The Game Plan. Could it damage his potential for further tough guy roles? Does he care? He's already signed on to another kid friendly part in Witch Mountain, so perhaps he's no longer worried about audiences accepting him as a muscle man with attitude.

The Rock, like Vin Diesel before him, may have jumped the gun on doing a Disney family film before securing an iconic place next to Schwarzenegger, Stallone and other action hero types. His movie may therefore lack that necessary extreme between the character we associate with The Rock and the character he must take on for the movie -- like the type of contrast that made Kindergarten Cop so funny.

But there are worse things he could do. Other action stars and macho actors have made some pretty terrible mistakes that had nothing to do with working with kids, and many of these mistakes were career altering. Let's just hope Dwayne Johnson never has to suffer such ideas as these:


1. Junior (1994, Ivan Reitman)

For a macho guy, finding out you have a kid is domesticating, but finding out you're pregnant is emasculating. Nothing says an action hero has gone soft like giving him a bun in the oven, and it's no wonder that Arnold Schwarzenegger had difficulty maintaining his image in action movies for the next decade -- until Terminator 3. I'm certain that if The Rock tried doing a movie in which he's with child rather than with a child, he'd cause far more problems for his career. At least Schwarzenegger had just a few months earlier released True Lies, and fans likely held onto the hope he would be back on top one day.

Hey, remember when Fred Durst was frontman for Limp Bizkit and, like, really popular? Don't you remember? No, before the porn, er, failed comeback attempts. No, that's Kirsten Dunst -- but nice try though. I'm talking about that rowdy "It's just one of those days!" dude, who always wore a red Yankees hat backwards, and did things like yell and ... what else did he do, exactly?

Well, chalk one up for Durst's agent, because the man has just landed an acting role alongside Chris Klein and Jake Busey (guess who he's related to?) in Play Dead, to be directed by Jason Wiles. Now, before you begin to wonder what on earth Chris Klein is doing in a movie with Jake Busey and Fred Durst, let me tell you what this sucker is about. Remember Last Action Hero? Yeah, well change the bad guys to meth dealers and, instead of Arnold, stick Klein into the lead role. The American Pie star will play a former TV action hero who's career has gone into the toilet. While traveling back from an audition, he becomes stranded in a remote Nevada town where a bunch of seedy drug dealers (Busey, Durst, etc ...) do bad things to people they don't know. Now, it's up to Klein to become a real action hero and save the day.

Pic was written by Wiles and Shem Bitterman; currently there's no production schedule set for this bad boy. Is anyone out there still a fan of Fred Durst? Does knowing he's involved in the film really make you want to see it? They're labeling this one as a dark comedy, so when it arrives on Netflix (I can't see this getting a theatrical anything), we'll be sure to let you know.