Dwayne Johnson Phone Call Made DC's Black Adam Solo Movie Happen
Despite originally being scheduled to make his DCEU debut in 2019's Shazam, all it took was one phone call from Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson to ensure the character got his own proper solo origin movie instead. Johnson has been attached to play Black Adam since 2014, and after nearly a decade, his take on the character is finally set to hit the big screen. He'll star as the DC Comics antihero alongside Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell, Bodhi Sabongui, and Pierce Brosnan.
When Shazam! was being developed, it was actually going to act as an origin story not just for Zachary Levi's titular hero, but also for Johnson's antihero. However, after multiple rewrites and years of delays, the film's producers were still having trouble finding a story that would do both characters justice while still maintaining a cohesive script. Eventually, it seems Johnson decided to make an executive decision.
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According to comicbook.com, Johnson came to the conclusion that the only way to properly introduce both of these classic comic book characters would be to divorce their origin stories and give each one a movie of their own. In what seems to have been a decisive call to producers Hiram Garcia and Beau Flynn, Johnson explained how he thought the franchise should proceed. Read how it played out below:
«The original plan, maybe five or six years ago I think, was to tell the two origin stories of Shazam! and Black Adam in the same movie. That's what we had worked on. The script was delivered. When we all read the script, I immediately felt like, 'We have to separate these two movies. We have to honor Shazam! and that origin story and what
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