Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Dwayne Johnson will be Black Adam in Shazam


Dwayne Johnson revealed that he is playing Black Adam in the upcoming Shazam movie. Black Adam is an enemy of Shazam/Captain Marvel and powerful character in the DC Comics universe.

Variety
reports:
Sources tell Variety that Darren Lemke is set to write the script with Johnson attached to star. Johnson will play Black Adam, who in recent issues of the DC comicbook, is more of an anti-hero trying to clear his name than a villain.

Johnson and Hiram Garcia are also producing.

“We Love Dwayne and have had nothing but success with him over the years,” said Toby Emmerich, President and COO of New Line. “When I look at Dwayne both off screen and on screen, he is such a larger than life character and it just made perfect sense to me that we put him in a DC comic movie. You look at these comic book characters and they have this certain swag and charisma that Dwayne carries with him where ever he is so that’s why this always made sense.”
Hope he can pull it off.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm really looking forward to this. He looks the part. And I'm ready to see him in tights. :) Although he had the choice between Capt Marvel & Black Adam, I'm glad he chose Adam... because I'd rather see him as a sexy bad guy for once.

Anonymous said...

Are we running out of Black actors ?

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