‘Black Adam': Inside the Decade-Long Journey to Bring Dwayne Johnson’s DC Anti-Hero to the Big Screen
thewrap.com“Black Adam,” but the wildly in-demand actor and producer has been plotting this anti-hero role for over a decade, navigating the changing landscape of not just superhero movies in general, but the regime structure at Warner Bros.
and DC to bring a gritty, nearly R-rated iteration of the character to the DC universe. The trajectory of the long-in-the-works film began with a combo Black Adam/Shazam movie, but the franchise’s future could find Johnson squaring off against the biggest DC heroes around.The story of “Black Adam” officially begins back in 2007, when Johnson – who at that point was still building his acting career with films like “The Rundown,” “Doom” and “Southland Tales” – revealed that he was playing Black Adam, at that point in time for his “Get Smart” director Peter Segal who was attached to the project.For “Black Adam” producer and president of production at Seven Bucks Productions Hiram Garcia, this was a chance to make a dream come true. “What starts as a small conversation and a dream and sharing comic books and looking at storylines that we liked became a moment where we started to live in an industry where these movies were now starting to become a thing,” he told TheWrap.
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