The Rock Producing an HBO Show About Backyard Wrestling

The Rock is producing an upcoming half-hour-per-episode scripted HBO series called “TRE CNT” (a.k.a “TRE COUNT”) about the creation of a backyard wrestling promotion, according to Variety.

“The series focuses on Cassius Jones, a young dock worker and struggling pro-wrestler, who uses inherited life-insurance money for start-up cash and the deed to a shotgun house from his grandfather to start a hip-hop centric backyard wrestling empire in Houston’s Third Ward (The Tre) with the help of his working-class family, neighbors, and friends,” Variety says.

The Rock will be an executive producer on the series under his Seven Bucks Productions company banner, but the report didn’t say that he’d have an acting role.

The HBO series Ballers, which starred and was executive produced by The Rock, aired from 2015 until its final episode in October 2019.