The future of Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam is uncertain. But now the actor has made the decision to refute the rumors.
At the moment, the DCU Camp is receiving attention from all over the world. There have been significant moves and departures at the studio ever since James Gunn and Peter Safran assumed the boss seats. The two greatest departures were Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam and Henry Cavill as Superman. The latter was only beginning his tenure as the renowned DC villain when the studio’s executives ordered him to take a backseat. There were rumors following the same, but The Rock is now dismissing them all.
Dwayne made it possible for himself to play Black Adam in the standalone DC film, but it fell short of the extremely high standards he had set. His time as the bad guy was soon over, and he was told to step aside with no certain future in sight. The Rock dispelling rumors at the moment is making headlines.
It was recently reported that Dwayne Johnson had pitched a multi-year future for Black Adam in the DCU. But turned out his pitch failed and did not impress the makers. The Rock has now decided to dismiss and slam the rumours. Read on to know everything you should about the same.
As per The Direct, Dwayne Johnson while talking to Morgan Brennan about the alleged failed 10-year Black Adam future pitch, said, “That is simply not true. I had a great meeting with David Zaslav, myself, and my longtime business partner Dany Garcia. Her and myself went in, we sat with David, and we did not pitch a ten-year plan at all. What our meeting was the future and how can we build across the entire platform of Warner bros. and Discovery.”
Dwayne Johnson added how recent weeks have been “challenging,” as he demonstrated “discipline” by just “(letting) these reports come out.” He said, “You know, I gotta tell you Morgan and David, one of the hardest things that I’ve had to do – and it’s one of the greater disciplines that we have to practice when we’re in this position – is you want to be careful how much you get pulled into the sludge. of media reporting.”
“Now, that’s not an overall criticism. but you do want to be careful about it. So it was very difficult – wait, let me rephrase that – it was challenging to exercise that kind of discipline. Just to let these reports come out,” the Black Adam star concluded.
Source: koimoi.com