It turns out there’s a good reason why Dwayne Johnson, aka one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, isn’t going to appear in DC’s Shazam! movie.
Speaking to Collider, Black Adam’s producer Hiram Garcia said that the film’s star won’t be appearing in next year’s light-hearted flick because he didn’t want to compromise either of the heroes.
“So as we were developing an actual Black Adam and Shazam movie,” says Garcia, “we were just realizing that both characters are so special that we didn’t want to compromise either of them by cramming them both into the same movie. So that’s why we made the decision to let Shazam have his own standalone movie and kind of launch him properly, and then we’ll do the same for Black Adam. And so that kind of really freed things up. It allowed us to develop the right version of both.”
Black Adam was originally going to appear in Shazam! as the villain, until it was decided a solo movie was a better fit for a star such as Johnson. Though we haven’t heard much on the film lately, Garcia reassures us it’s still in development.
“So where we are now with Black Adam is we just got our latest script. We’re doing some revisions on it. We’re extremely excited about it, the studio’s very excited about it. And I’m telling you man, as a comic book fan, when this thing comes out, it is going to be amazing. This is the fanboy in me talking to you, it’s going to deliver on the goods of everything you’d want to see Black Adam do, he’s going to be doing in this film.”
Shazam is directed by David Sandberg (Lights Out) and will open on April 5, 2019.
Source: Collider
