--- description: Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson play a mismatched pair of lifeguards in the trailer for the film adaptation of "Baywatch," out in 2017. title: Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson Report for Duty in First 'Baywatch' Trailer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4107ad832b929b7a/6988b240cd1bba6651703577/zac-efron.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson Report for Duty in First _Baywatch_ Trailer ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. Cue the slow-mo beach run_  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 8, 2016 3:17 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 8, 2016 3:17 PM CUT The most enduring image from [_Baywatch_](http://time.com/4210181/pamela-anderson-activism-playboy-baywatch/ "undefined"), which premiered on NBC in 1989, is surely that of Pamela Anderson running in slow motion toward an unforgiving sea, all steely-eyed determination and windswept locks. In its first trailer, the _Baywatch_ movie adaptation, due in May 2017, manages to both own this trademark and send it up, recreating the hot-heroic slow-mo jog while getting a witty one-liner out of it, too. The stars of the movie, however, appear not to be the red-suited female guards but [Dwayne Johnson](http://time.com/4355140/dwayne-johnson-the-rock-president/ "undefined") and [Zac Efron](http://time.com/4253240/zac-efron-insane-baywatch-diet/ "undefined"), whose mismatched pairing as lifeguarding bros will undoubtedly lead to a bromantic finale. Along the way, Johnson will dive into an ocean that is somehow on fire, we will be asked to laugh at the incongruity of two brawny men riding a bubblegum pink scooter, and there will be ball and boob jokes aplenty. Johnson plays Mitch Buchannon, played in the TV show by David Hasselhoff, Alexandra Daddario plays Nicole Eggert’s Summer Quinn and Kelly Rohrbach reprises Anderson’s C.J. Parker. The number of opportunities Efron seems to find to parade around shirtless might be getting old by now if he weren’t, save for a [handful of misses](http://time.com/4190128/dirty-grandpa-unfunny-review/ "undefined"), funny pretty much every time he does it. 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