Looking at IMDB, around the time Arnold’s Star was beginning to dim w. movies like End of Days (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Collateral Damage (2002)…

…Dwayne Johnson was playing his own dad on That 70s Show (1999), a hologram on Star Trek Voyager (2000), a horrible looking CGI scorpion in The Mummy Returns (2001), a mugger in some movie called Longshot (2001) which I’ve never heard of.

Even after Arnold passed the torch in The Rundown (2003), it took time for Dwayne to seal the deal. His billing was slowly going from The Rock to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Dwayne Johnson, but things like Doom (2005) were still in his future.

So is there someone out there right now we’ll look back on in 10-12 years and be able to trace a trajectory from minor roles to action Star supremacy?

EDIT
I didn’t include Stallone’s doings in the early 00s cuz I was lazy, and it was Arnold who passed the torch.