Cannot add task 'wrapper' as a task with that name already exists

When installing 'react-native init AwesomeProject' I get this error when I run react-native run-android:

Could not determine java version from '11.0.1'.

A quick google suggests I need to update the distributionUrl in the Gradle-wrapper. Having done this I am faced with a new error:

Cannot add task 'wrapper' as a task with that name already exists.

It suggests the issue is in the file:

/AwesomeProject/android/build.gradle' line: 36

which looks like this

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {    gradleVersion = '4.4'    distributionUrl = distributionUrl.replace("bin", "all")}

I've been back and forth trying to figure out what this does. It seems odd that something wouldn't work straight out of the box. Is anybody facing a similar issue?