Earlier today,BaywatchstarsDwayne JohnsonandZac Efronpremiered the first footage from this adaptation on social media. The sexy beachside adventure moved up one week from June 02, 2025 to July 31, 2025, which falls on Memorial Day weekend. These brief videos provide just a tiny taste of all the ocean action before the full trailer debuts tomorrow, Thursday, December 8. We’ll be sure to bring you the full trailer as soon as it arrives. But in the meantime, these two teasers help set the tone for this big screen adventure.
Dwayne Johnson’sTwittervideo teases that the “ocean’s most powerful force will emerge,” transitioning to a shot of The Rock carrying a lifeless body out of the water.Zac Efron’s teaser video shows footage of his character Matt Brody, who is seen jumping off his motorcycle directly into the ocean to save a victim, along with another funnier moment where he meetsAlexandra Daddario’s Summer Quinn, who catches Matt staring at her chest.
Production wrapped back in May, with the first officialcast photobeing released, featuringDwayne Johnson,Zac Efron,Priyanka Chopra,Kelly RohrbachandAlexandra Daddario. While Paramount hasn’t released an official plot synopsis yet, it has been rumored thatDwayne Johnson’s Mitch Buchannon, described as a “by-the-book lifeguard,” teams up withZac Efron’s Matt Brody, said to be a “rule-flouting hothead,” to save their beach from “envinronmental destruction” by an oil tycoon. Hopefully we’ll learn more about this story once the first trailer debuts.
The cast also includesIlfenesh Hadera,Hannibal Buress,Jack Kesy,Jon Bass,Amin Joseph,Belinda,Izabel GoulartandCharlotte McKinney. OriginalBaywatchstarsDavid HasselhoffandPamela Andersonwill also come aboard for cameo roles, but little is known about their appearnces at this time. The new Memorial Day release date putsBaywatchup against another highly-anticipated movie, Disney’s long-awaited sequelPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starringJohnny Deppas Captain Jack Sparrow. This could be quite the intriguing box office showdown next May, with two of Hollywood’s biggest stars squaring off.
Dwayne Johnsonmade headlines earlier this year when he invited an ailing young fan to the set of this R-rated adaptation. The actor extended the invitation to a seven-year-old Tennessee cancer patient namedGabriel “Tater” Singleton, after the young boy and his family started a social media campaign to meet the actor. Tater has bene fighting cancer for the past four of his seven years, undergoing eight surgeries, two stem cell transplants.
Seth Gordon(Horrible Bosses) is directing theBaywatch remakefrom a screenplay most recently written byDamian ShannonandMark Swift(Friday the 13th).Justin Malen(Bad Teacher 2) wrote the original draft of the script, withDwayne Johnsonalso producing alongsideBeau FlynnandIvan Reitman. Take a look at these preview videos below, before the fullBaywatchtrailer arrives tomorrow.
