Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam was just too much of a bad boy for Shazam!
It’s been like four years since Dwayne Johnson first hinted that he was finally getting into the superhero game, announcing that he’d be playing the villainous Black Adam in some sort of upcoming movie based off of D.C.’s Shazam line of comics. Said declaration led to some raised eyebrows a few years later, though, as it became increasingly clear that, while Warner Bros. was definitely making a Shazam! movie, Johnson and Black Adam were nowhere in sight. Now, Hiram Garcia—who’s listed as a producer on both Shazam! and a still somewhat hypothetical Black Adam movie—has offered some insight on the issue, telling Collider that Johnson’s Adam is just too big and badass of a character to be shoved into another hero’s origin story.
