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Dwayne Johnson expresses his love for Black Adam

January 4, 2017 by Robert Kojder

Shazam! hasn’t actually started production yet, but Dwayne “The Rock” is certainly excited to play the antihero/villain Black Adam, as per a recent Q&A on his YouTube channel.

Johnson was asked why he sought the role, replying “I love the role of Black Adam. I love that he starts off as a slave, that he felt like he was wronged. I just love that backstory, and I think that Black Adam has always been, for me, the most intriguing superhero.”

This falls in line with an interview about the character from March 2015, where The Rock said: “I felt ultimately- and this is with all due respect to Shazam and Billy Batson, it’s a mythology I love, it’s been with me for almost ten years now – what made me choose Black Adam… I just felt Black Adam was inherently more interesting to me because I felt there were more layers to Black Adam, starting out as a slave and then ultimately becoming the anti-hero who we enjoy today… In 2007 or 2008 I publicly took a swing, I asked the fans, who would you rather see me play and I really left it up to them because at that time we were developing with Warner Bros. and New Line, and Black Adam won out.”

SEE ALSO: Dwayne Johnson teasing Superman appearance in Shazam?

Shazam is set for release on April 5th 2019.

Filed Under: Movies, News, Robert Kojder Tagged With: DC, Dwayne Johnson, Shazam

About Robert Kojder

Robert Kojder is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association, and Online Film Critics Society. He is also the Flickering Myth Reviews Editor.

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