Baywatch is a 2017 American action comedy film based on the television series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Gregory J. Bonann. The film was directed by Seth Gordon, written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (from a story by Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant), and stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron with Jon Bass, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Priyanka Chopra and David Hasselhoff in supporting roles. The story follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team who must take down a drug lord in an effort to save their beach.