There ’s nothing quite so furious as Hollywood dramatic event , and Dwayne Johnson ’s crash and burn with Black Adam is n’t so much a superhero smash as a superhero flop . Frommiddling box federal agency numberstodefensive claimsabout said box seat office numbers , to assurances from newDC maestro James Gunnthat Black Adam ’s not bushed , just on ice … there ’s really nothing more that could surprise us .
At least until Variety decided to pull out all the reception andfigure out what exactly blend wrong here . Black Adam had the budget , the star , and the space in the DCEU timeline to get all eyes on it . So , this all protrude to go down in 2022 , when Dwayne Johnson bend the ear of CEO David Zaslav and “ straight pitched … a multiyear programme for Black Adam and a Cavill - head Superman in which the two attribute would interweave , setting up a Superman - versus - blackened Adam showdown . ”
This conversation apparently turn the tide of internal legal opinion at Warner Bros , mostly because “ Dwayne go around everyone , which did n’t sit well , ” reports one of Variety ’s sources . to boot , another source said that “ [ Johsonson ’s ] demands increased and the returns just were n’t there . ” Such demands included ask for a producer credit on DC League of Super - Pets and then scarcely doing any promotion at all , then importune that a bar function his tequila brand , Teremana , be set up at the NYC premiere of Black Adam , despite its PG-13 rating .
Image: Warner Bros.
And then , when the title fizzle out out at the box office despite the Cavill cameo , and without anyone at the new - merged Warner Bros. to stand up for Johnson , it appears as if that was the end of Black Adam ’s on-going dealership . As these news report continue to come out , it seems potential that the writing might be on the wall for Dwayne Johnson ’s DC life history .
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