At one promotional look, Dwayne Johnson proudly declared of his Black Adam film, “The hierarchy of energy within the DC Universe is about to vary.” The uniquely phrased line turned quoted time and again in articles concerning the movie.
Because it seems, Johnson was proper: The hierarchy of energy within the DC Universe actually did change. However not in Black Adam, or in Johnson’s favor. A number of weeks after the movie got here out, Warner Bros. employed James Gunn and Peter Safran to grow to be the brand new co-CEOs of DC Studios. And so they have set about planning a completely new future for DC motion pictures and exhibits — one that doesn’t embody Johnson or Black Adam, a minimum of within the brief time period.
That’s in line with Johnson himself, who up to date followers concerning the state of his DC future in a tweet addressed to “my passionate pals.” It learn, partially:
James Gunn and I related, and Black Adam won’t be of their first chapter of storytelling. Nonetheless, DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to proceed exploring essentially the most helpful methods Black Adam may be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters.
Johnson added that he “will at all times root for DC (and Marvel) to win and WIN BIG.
That is fairly a reversal from just some months in the past, when Black Adam appeared positioned to take an more and more giant position in DC motion pictures. The movie launched the Justice Society and ended with a shock look from Henry Cavill’s Superman — seemingly establishing a Black Adam sequel that may characteristic the character going through off with the Man of Metal. As a substitute, Gunn and Safran are actually prepping a Superman film (written by Gunn himself) a couple of youthful model of Superman, and Cavill’s return as Clark Kent is over after simply that single cameo look.
A few of this may occasionally need to do with the field workplace efficiency of Black Adam, which in line with some estimates may lose as much as $100 million. (Johnson himself just lately tweeted that the movie would flip a revenue of “$52M-72M” in line with his “financiers.”) Or it may merely need to do with the truth that if you’re constructing a brand new DC film universe, you may not need a violent, offended antihero who gleefully murders his enemies to be considered one of its cornerstones.
You may learn Johnson’s full letter under.
The subsequent DC film, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, is scheduled to open in theaters on March 17, 2023.
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