Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Santaros Credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Okay, it's official, The Rock is no longer The Rock. Dwayne Johnson is the gorgeous fellow making movies. The other guy was a cool wrestler. Dwayne, the hunky actor, stars as a film icon with amnesia in the futuristic, apocalyptic, dark comedy Southland Tales, written and directed by another hunk; ultra-cute, perfect fratboy-faced writer/director Richard Kelly who gave us the deeply disturbed but brilliant Donnie Darko. "Tales" has a huge ensemble cast including "Saturday Night Live" alums, Sarah Michelle Gellar as a porn star with a reality series, Mandy Moore as Dwayne's estranged, senator's daughter wife and Justin Timberlake as a damaged Iraq war vet!

Southland Tales is pretty hard to follow so you might want to read the three graphic novels that serve as a prequel to the movie. "Southland Tales Book I: Two Roads Diverge," "Southland Tales Book II: Fingerprints," and "Southland Tales Book III: The Mechanicals." Kelly told us that the film functions as the final three chapters of his love/hate relationship with L.A.

We met with Dwayne and Richard in Beverly Hills recently. Dwayne told us about getting involved in the film, developing his character and dancing with Sarah Michelle. Richard spilled the goods on getting Justin Timberlake to narrate his movie and do a musical number! Read on for our insider "Tales"....