Dwayne Johnson And GalGadot approach the possible end of their DC career very differently. While The Rock lives so ruthlessly these days that he jokes with Dad about being armed to the teeth in front of officers of the law, the wonder woman star is delighted to sit back and watch as the Snyderverse fandom burns to ash in the wake of James Gunn’s rebooted DCU. And yet, if Johnson had taken a different approach to his own attempt at DC domination, who knows, things might have turned out differently.
We all know that Johnson got a little too big for his boots when it came to it Black Adam, as Henry Cavill’s Superman, ended up embarrassing everyone involved, not least because DC was already working with Gunn on a Cavill-less new Supes film at the time. The Black Adam Franchise might then have survived in the Gunnverse if it had instead chosen to team up with Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince. If only DJ hadn’t been too obsessed with an impossible Marvel crossover to make it happen.
Back when Netflix was Red notice Released back in 2021, talk naturally arose about whether Johnson and Gadot could ever work together in what was then the DCEU. Variety was particularly interested in the idea at the action thriller’s red carpet premiere, pitching the proposal to both production partner Hiram Garcia and the Man in Black himself.
Garcia insisted that something like this should happen, claiming that it was a major must-have for the characters:
“We need to see them together somehow,” Garcia said. “Seeing Black Adam and Wonder Woman sharing the screen is going to be pretty awesome. I honestly feel like Wonder Woman is one of the few superheroes that can rival Black Adam.”
Johnson for his part however, apparently saw an Adam/Diana connection as too small to care too much about, preferring the idea of a multiverse-shattering crossover with Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool:
“I think there’s a crossover with Black Adam [and] Wonder Woman,” he said. “But what we were just talking about today… I turned to Ryan [Reynolds] and Gal [Gadot] and I said there should be a crossover between Marvel and the DC Universe. We can be the ones who can possibly make it happen. So we’ll see. Lets see what happens.”
Given his inability to even land Black Adama sequel, The Rock’s one-time belief that he could get a Marvel/DC crossover off the ground now seems extremely cocky. In hindsight, he probably should have happily adopted Wonder Woman’s team-up concept and run with it.
source:worldtimetodays.com
