Dwayne Johnson On Shazam!: The Rock Will Play Black Adam

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has spoken about the big screen adaptation of Captain Marvel comic book Shazam! He’s revealed a few updates and speaks about how things have changed - The Rock will now play Black Adam.

Speaking at the Southland Tales Junket over the weekend, Johnson said,

“I just met with Pete Segal last night. It was a great meeting on Shazam. We’re just waiting for John August to hand in another draft, which will probably be handed in months from now because of the strike.”

“And not Shazam but Black Adam, that’s now very clear. He’s a character that I can’t wait to play. When they first approached me about playing Captain Marvel, they said there is also this interesting character too called Black Adam. This was about a year ago on the set of Get Smart. I said ‘Oh, Okay, Great’.

So did he choose the role of Black Adam? Apparently not, it was down to the comic book fans Dwayne reveals,

“We went down to Comic Con to show the trailer for Get Smart. And there I was talking to all the fans and they were like ‘You should really look into Black Atom.’ So I said to some writer or journalist that I think it’s up to the fans, they should just let me know. And they just let me know in spades - It’s Black Adam! And that dictated to the studio, to the director…”

The character Black Adam has a morally ambiguous nature which sees him fall between the fine lines of heroism and villainy. The character was created back in 1945 for the first issue of Fawcett Comics’ Marvel Family comic book by Otto Binder and C.C Beck and an ‘evil’ version of the popular Captain Marvel character.

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