The Rock Confirmed To Play Black Adam In DC's "SHAZAM" Movie
 

So, after years of speculation, The Rock is finally confirmed to be playing Black Adam in the upcoming Captain Marvel/ "SHAZAM!" film from DC/WB.

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/...lack_Adam.html

- The Rock wrote more on Facebook yesterday about his role as Black Adam in DC Comics' Shazam movie:

"This role has been years in the making. A true honor for me to become my favorite comic anti-hero of all time - BLACK ADAM. Lets have some fun."

I really don't like The Rock in much, but I've been saying for years this is the role he was born to play. I honestly can't think of more perfect, spot-on casting for anything than this. I've always liked Captain Marvel; my hopes for this movie honestly went up a ton after reading this.

I know some people were speculating and would prefer that he play Captain Marvel/Shazam himself, but it's better this way. He'd have been a "decent" Captain Marvel but a PERFECT Black Adam. Sometimes you just shouldn't go against the grain.

Thoughts?

Don't care about Shazam or Black Adam..I'm just glad the whole "who is the Rock playing" speculation can finally end.

It's pretty dumb on WB's part to have this movie separate from the new DC universe. Why are you wasting the Rock?

I'll be honest bro.
I'm not the biggest Rock fan, but I can see how they are connecting the dots. The perfect egyptian anti-Shazam is a hard casting call. Let's hope they do it some justice..

I'm in that Rock should be Black Adam boat. Been in it for years.

Now to just find out who will be Shazam! Wonder if they'll even call him Captain Marvel? I know Injustice doesn't, but MkvsDc did.

Not a big fan of these characters. Wish the rock was in a better role.

You know, when I first heard about this, I thought they were doing a reboot of the Shazam movie that Shaq starred in. Glad to hear that's not the case. I'm not familiar with this character, but it's cool that he's playing someone he admires. I'm sure he'll do the role justice.

Good casting

I think so too.


Oh and Bubbly, that's Kazam

Ah, okay. I got it wrong. My bad. Nice new username, BTW.

I used to get em confused too! Haha.


Thanks.

I personally think that The Rock would be suited to play Shazam, but Black Adam would suit him well too.

Didn't DC just start calling Captain Marvel Shazam due to legality issues? That and or confusion. But good for the Rock, I'm just wondering who Shazam's gonna be.

Yeah, it was because Marvel also had a character called Captain Marvel as well. And because they gained the trademark to the name, DC had to change the name of Cap to "Shazam".

Which doesn't really make sense considering Captain Marvel/Shazam was created in 1941 and the Marvel character didn't appear till 1967.

The Rock wouldn't make a good Captain Marvel, he makes a great Black Adam. My favorite scene from that character is in Villains United in a meeting he is floating and they ask him why he is floating and his explanation was just an awesome character moment, from then on I've been a fan.

So Captain Marvel is Shazam now? That's lame, what's the name of the Wizard now? Captain Marvel? And I don't think they changed the name because of a legal battle, I think it was DCs plan? It seems that way from what I read. Maybe they didn't want to give Marvel any promotion by having Captain Marvel as a movie/comic around.

Anyway, a captain marvel movie is not something I really would ask for, and I like the character but now that they're doing it I hope it's really out there with ideas to differentiate him from Superman. Take advantage of the kid in a supermans body and the fantasy elements.

The wizard is still Shazam. I'm pretty sure it's cus of Marvel's Captain that he has to be called Shazam.

Take this with a grain of salt, but Alan Ritchson who played Raphael in the recent TMNT movies, might actually play Shazam.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/shazam...shazam-a145206

We'll the DCCU kinda sucks so.... distancing themselves from it might give this movie a chance. Kinda wish Suicide squad did the same thing tbh.

Worst. Decision. EVER.

You're replying to an old post. It's since been confirmed to be a part of the DC cinematic universe.

Me, I give two craps about Shazam, but who knows. I'd rather see the Rock play Darkseid under heavy makeup, layething the smacketh down on those jabronis named Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, checking them into the Smackdown Hotel. There was actually some pretty cool fan designs for the Rock as Apocalypse in that last X-Men... attempt... that were pretty compelling.

I missed the part where The Rock became a serious actor.
Captain Marvel could be fun, but they're ****ing it up.
The potential is huge, given the source material.

Shame for Shazam.

Snitch and Faster. Give 'em a watch.

But this project? ... Eh. Not really interested.

How is Snitch? It looked like it could possibly be interesting but the trailers didn't really grab me.

I liked it. If I remember correctly, the wife liked it, too.

Not compelling enough to watch it again, but serviceable.

Yeah, no. He's a birthday clown at best.
I mean, in a world where Trump could be president, I guess it makes sense...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngu.../idiocracy.jpg

Now that is great casting.

And here's today's story of DC throwing **** at the wall hoping it looks like they have an actual plan.........

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/dw...ff-1201964119/

Good grief....

Shouldn't they want to wait and see how Shazam does befor --

Oh, never mind. It's not even possible to make excuses for DC anymore.

Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.

Shazam movie CANCELLED... Man of Steel 2 to have Black Adam as the main villain?

http://www.screengeek.net/2017/04/10...zam-cancelled/

I guess that's not the worst thing ever. Though Man of Steel 2 really ought to have an actual Superman villain in it. i.e., Brainiac or something. Black Adam isn't going to be terribly different from General Zod.

The thinking is probably, "let's use Man of Steel 2 to springboard the Black Adam movie, and the Shazam movie later on, and make the Rock really happy," and not on "Let's make a really great Man of Steel sequel." Which is a shame.

Shazam! canceled... told ya.

But Black Adam facing off against Superman? When we could be seeing Brainiac, Mogul, Metallo, (a better Lex Luthor), Parasite, Bizarro, Cyborg Superman, Eradicator, or Lobo? No thank you. Recast the Rock as a Superman rogue and pay him enough $$$ to stick around.

WTF? How can WB recklessly announce a Black Adam spin-off movie while at the same time "not feel confident in the first drafts" of the Shazam script? Absolutely contemptible.

The Rock probably has his contract signed for X number of movies as Black Adam, and WB is so desperate to not lose him to Marvel that they're putting him in Man of Steel 2. Which isn't that bad, but as Cylon said... so much untapped mythos you could be using instead. But considering the Lex Luthor we've got, I'm not even sure I'd want to see what their take on any of the above would be.

Kinda funny that this rumor breaks on the same day as a great Marvel trailer drops... you really get a sense of how things are going for the respective studios.

Man of Steel 2 is to The Mummy Returns as the Black Adam movie is to The Scorpion King movie. Same idea.

Like Andrew said... WB appears to be much more concerned with keeping Dwayne Johnson on retainer than making a good Superman sequel.

Which is infuriating. Just put Johnson in a mocap role for Man of Steel 2 (Parasite or Metallo, perhaps?) and promise him that IF Warner Bros can pull off a Shazam movie, he absolutely gets to still costar in it as Black Adam.

But no. That makes too much sense. Let's have Black Adam v Superman: Dawn of Poor Planning! :trolleye:

Dawn? We're at least at midday now.

Yeah, The Rock could even BE Brainiac. I'd be okay with that. Have him kind of be defeated in Man of Steel 2, then show up in a later Justice League movie.

Does The Rock even do mocap anymore? I've felt like he enjoys appearing in movies more or less as himself.

I see Dawn of Justice as Man of Steel 2. As far as a second solo outing for Superman, what about Dwayne as Metallo who is working with Brainaic? Would Johnson go for something like that?

This movie was never a good idea, especially when it became part of the DCEU, and yes they're putting Black Adam in MoS2 not just to keep the rock but to make the Superman movie viable with some star power.

How did DC lose the rights of having the name Captain Marvel? That's so stupid, Captain Marvel was not even an important character in Marvel and yet the Captain Marvel movie is now unrelated to the Captain Marvel we all know. Shazaam is such a stupid name for the hero though I guess it makes sense since the comics had been called that for rights issues but still a weak name change.

I'm sure it's twofold... but there does appear to be an inherent lack of trust from WB in a Superman movie flying entirely on its own merits.

It doesn't even make sense. Shazam is the old man wizard who gives Captain Marvel his powers. Making (merging?) Captain Marvel into Shazam was a thing the New52 did, and dumb.