Young Rock, the NBC sitcom that looks back on the formative years of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is already taking a leap forward, presenting the wrestling legend and action-movie star as a presidential candidate 11 years from now.

Showrunner Nahnatchka Khan, who knows about running biographical sitcoms from her days with Fresh Off the Boat, told Variety, "We're starting with 2032 because we were looking for a framework that felt organic and that could bring in multiple timelines. It made sense to me that if Dwayne was looking back on his life this way, then we can also look forward, which is where the future timeline came in. We're able to give him an interesting arc for the future."

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Young Rock also looks in on Johnson at age 10 when he lived in Hawaii, at 15 when he lived in Pennsylvania, and as a college student at 20. Khan said, "He has a lot of stories about how money was really tight for them and his dad couldn't get work easily. I think a lot of people can relate to that struggle, and I wanted to tell stories from that era of Dwayne’s life because, again, we know that he ends up OK and he overcomes these hardships."

"And, then, the University of Miami period to me was also really interesting because this is where he thinks he’s found this path and he thinks his future is the NFL," Khan continued. "He's recruited right out of high school to go to this super high-profile football school. He thinks this is how he is going to change his life and support his family, and then his dream gets deferred a little bit. We see how he responds to that and why he obviously didn’t end up going down that road even if in that timeline, he believes that is what his future is. And then we just put it all together."

Created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by Johnson, Young Rock stars Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant and Uli Latukefu in the titular role with Stacey Leilua Ata and Joseph Lee Anderson as his parents Ata and Rocky. The series premieres Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

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Source: Variety