Amazon MGM Studios has released the first official stills from The Wrecking Crew, an R-rated action-comedy pairing Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista as estranged half-brothers pulled back together by a death in the family. The film will premiere on Prime Video on Jan. 28, 2026, with the images marking the start of a marketing push for the streamer’s early-2026 slate.
The story centers on Momoa’s Johnny, a cop from Oklahoma who returns to Hawaii for his father’s funeral, and Bautista’s James, a Navy SEAL commander stationed at Pearl Harbor. Their uneasy reunion turns investigative as the brothers try to sort rumor from fact around their father’s killing, then run headlong into a wider scheme tied to the island’s power players. Amazon has described the film as a buddy-style action ride, built around friction, insults, and sudden violence.
Ángel Manuel Soto directs from a script by Jonathan Tropper, who worked with both stars on Apple TV+’s See and has said the collaboration revealed comic timing that never made it onto that series’ darker canvas. Momoa traced the project’s origin to Bautista’s 2021 social-media pitch for a “buddy cop” pairing, a post that gained momentum inside the industry and later turned into a formal package.
Soto has framed the Hawaii setting as more than scenery. In an interview tied to the film’s first look, he said he wanted the movie to move past “postcards” and into everyday life on Oahu, while touching on tensions around development, displacement, and local identity. That approach lands as Amazon leans into star-driven films that can travel globally on a platform built for scale.
