By Benjamin Wagner

The Rock? In a kid-friendly Disney flick? Huh?

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson explained why he jumped on board Disney’s “re-imagining” of its 1975 classic, “Escape From Witch Mountain,” at the film’s Comic-Con panel Thursday afternoon.

“Why me? In a Disney film?” he said, his Cheshire grin growing wider by the second. “Ka-ching!!!”

Judging by the bombastic trailer screened just prior to the panel, though, this ain’t your parents’ “Witch Mountain.”

The dark, atmospheric two-minutes we saw felt equal parts “E.T.,” “Enemy Of The State,” “X-Files,” and “Adventures In Babysitting” with that oft-overused superhero-stops-a-car-with-his-body shot thrown in for good measure.

Director Andy Flickman described the reboot as “Somewhere between ‘48 Hours’ and the ‘Bourne’ series.”

“We wanted to make a thrill ride,” he said. “But we wanted it to feel real. So we had Military advisors, and CIA advisors, and we had Dr. Norman Lear one, of the leading alien abduction experts.”

“I was born in Roswell, New New Mexico,” he said. “So I’ve been dealing with Alien probes my whole life.”

To which The Rock raised his trademark eyebrow and laughed.