`` Jack the Giant Slayer '' earned a $ 28 million opening on 3,525 screens . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and It 's nowhere near what the movie needed to take in on its opening weekend . But it did well enough that Disney is going back and rebooting their sequel with an entirely new cast, including Dwayne Johnson as The Rock ( who was originally supposed to play Hercules ).
`` Jack the Giant Slayer '' earned a $ 28 million opening on 3,525 screens . It 's nowhere near what the movie needed to take in on its opening weekend . But it did well enough that Disney is going back and rebooting their sequel with an entirely new cast, including Dwayne Johnson as The Rock ( who was originally supposed to play Hercules ).