Dwayne Johnson reunites with his The Game Plan director Andy Fickman for Race to Witch Mountain, a sci-fi action comedy about a cab driver who suddenly finds himself involved in a struggle to save the world when two teenagers with special powers (played by AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) plop into the backseat of his taxi. Carla Gugino (Watchmen) co-stars as a UFO expert who finally gets confirmation aliens do exist.

On Revisiting Witch Mountain:

Carla Gugino: "I loved the movie as a kid. I lived in a van. We had a motor home for a year as a kid. So, for me, I always just related to those kids so much - not the alien part. And then when I got this script, I just thought it was really good, and I was a fan of Andy’s. We sat down and talked about it and within about three minutes, I was like, 'We have to work together! We have to do this!' And, I’m a huge fan of Dwayne’s. It was just a really natural fit. I fell in love with the character and all the elements. It’s great when something isn’t a lot of work to make happen. Obviously, making a movie is a lot of work - in a great way - and it’s really fulfilling, but what you want is the creative connections to be easy and that was definitely very immediately apparent."

Dwayne Johnson: "They offered me so much money, there was no way that I could turn this down! [Laughing] I mean, 'Wow!' It was a very, very easy decision. I loved the script and was a big fan of the original.

My little girl who’s six loves the original, and that was even before Andy came to me with the idea, so it was a very easy decision to make. I love Andy. We worked together on The Game Plan. And I didn’t want to pass it up. Carla came onboard, with a company that I think embodies a lot of wonderful elements, especially with a movie like this, where you can combine and infuse great action with great adventure, great family values, great humor, contemporary action, contemporary humor and with a touch of fantasy too. I’ve said it in the past and I’ll say it again, in my opinion there’s really no greater director more suited for this type of movie. With his history, his love for UFOs and everything that that means, and having been born in Roswell, it’s amazing. Being around Andy, when it comes to UFOs and the mythology and history of what it could be and what it is, is like being around your favorite professor in college, where you’re just like, 'Wow!' It’s incredible the wealth of knowledge that he has. So, it was an easy decision for me."

On Working with AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig:

Dwayne Johnson: "They were great. They were really great to work with. Making movies is a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of hard work too. Acting is difficult to do, on many levels, and you’re so impressed when you can find teenagers like that, who have a tremendous amount of capacity to do what they’re doing, and to be that involved and be that present in the characters and the movie, and to see the same vision as Andy and the rest of us have. To see that wide scope, for them to have that vision, and then for them to still embrace being teenagers and having fun, I thought was great. I give a lot of credit to their families. They’re really, really talented kids. A very important point to mention is the fact that they are really, really passionate about the movie, not only this movie but the originals, and having a big love for the originals, and loving the fact that Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann [the original actors who played their roles] were there on the set. They spent a lot of time with them. Seeing them really engage with them was great, on our end. A lot of teenagers, frankly, are not like that. They’re interested in what’s on Yahoo! or Facebook, or something like that. But, they were great to work with. They’re very, very talented."

Who is Dr. Alex Friedman?

Carla Gugino: "She’s been discredited from several universities because she has decided that there is enough hard data to prove that there probably is alien life. And at the universities that she was working for, that wasn’t a popular notion for a respectable university. So she’s relegated to lecturing at the UFO Con in Las Vegas. She’s hoping, of course, that she’ll get some support, and all they want to talk about is crop circles and kooky theories. She’s pretty much having one of the worst days of her life when Dwayne’s character, Jack, the cab driver who drove her from the airport, walks in and says, 'Hey, these two kids are aliens.' She’s like, 'Great, and now I’m being made fun of.' And then she comes to realize that, in fact, they are aliens. It’s basically the most exciting thing -- the thing she’s been waiting for her entire life. Then she is swept away to help on the journey to save the world, or two, in this case."

Does The Rock Believe in Aliens?:

Dwayne Johnson: "Of course I do, yeah. I think it’d be extremely arrogant to think that we’re the only ones. I firmly do. And I’m always fascinated and intrigued. Spending three or four months with Andy, as all of us did, in pre-production and seeing his love and his passion -- he had all these videos and books and he just literally took us on this course…it was amazing. It was really phenomenal. But, yeah, of course I do, sure."

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