These skills come in quite handy when his home state of California is rocked by the biggest earthquake the planet has ever seen, and he has to vertically cross the state to save his wife (Carla Gugino) and daughter (Alexandra Daddario).
In the original San Andreas, based on a screenplay by Carlton Cuse, Andre Fabrizio, and Jeremy Passmore, Dwayne Johnson starred as Raymond Gaines, a first responder helicopter pilot.
Reports about the sequel suggest that it will involve what’s known as the Ring of Fire, which is a circle of fault lines around the Pacific Ocean that is home to the vast majority of the world’s quakes.