The Rock has not taken very well the failure of ‘Black Adam’ and the departure of Henry Cavill from DC
The arrival of James Gunn and Peter Safran at the controls of DC heralded troubled times, but the transition period is being a power war even more bloody than expected. The culprit of the last chapter in the long list of potholes that the studio is going through seems to be Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, the protagonist of ‘Black Adam’, who has not taken the failure of his solo film and the cancellation well at all of his confrontation with Henry Cavill’s Superman on the big screen.
‘Black Adam’ was originally going to be the villain of Zachary Levi’s ‘Shazam’, but Johnson lobbied to star in his own film and subsequently fought the studio to bring Henry Cavill back. as the Man of Steel anticipating a match between two of DC’s most powerful characters. However, the film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra did not meet expectations at the box office and shortly after, DC confirmed Cavill’s departure from their universe.
In any case, the members of the Justice Society of America from ‘Black Adam’ were originally slated to appear in ‘Shazam: The Fury of Gods,’ but the filmmaker David F. Sandberg has denounced that the scene “was canceled three days before the shooting date”, forcing him to find alternative characters at the last minute. According to The Wrap, it was Dwayne Johnson who blocked the appearance of superheroes in ‘Shazam 2′, and also refused a cameo by Zachary Levi in ’Black Adam’ that would have linked the three films.
In a stories from Instagram, Levi himself shared a post confirming the information with a rather revealing sentence: “The truth will make you free“.
Given the results of ‘Shazam 2’ at the box office, even worse than those of ‘Black Adam’, the truth is that perhaps Johnson did his co-stars a favor. The most normal thing is that the new direction of the DC Expanded Universe does not include neither Levi’s superhero nor Johnson’s, therefore closing their story with this sequel that, it must be said, it surely deserved better luck as a popcorn diversion.
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