Producer Hiram Garcia has explained why Dwayne Johnson decided to play the part of Black Adam in the DC Extended Universe.
Dwayne Johnson is one of the world’s most sought-after and popular movie stars, meaning that the actor is inundated with job offers. But what attracted him to the role of Black Adam in the in-development DC film of the same name?
Well, producer of the movie, Hiram Garcia, spoke to Collider about why Johnson decided this was the right superhero project for him:
“Black Adam is definitely happening. We’re actually very deep into a script on it right now, which is coming along really well. I’m really excited with the story we’ve crafted. Look, I’ve always been a huge comic book fan. I’ve always had this dream, I’ve always wanted to—You know, you kind of have like these goals of like, ‘One day I’d love to be able to do this and this,’ and making a superhero movie was definitely always one of my dreams. For the longest time, you know you kind of have this living superhero in Dwayne Johnson, so I was always trying to figure out what’s the perfect character that will kind of fit him and his look and his build and his kind of edge and the attitude he’s got.
“Black Adam just made kind of great sense. It was this kind of really cool antihero, kicks ass, who believes in basically exacting justice in his way with a fascinating backstory, the history he has with regards to having been a former slave and freeing his people and then getting his abilities and what happened from there. So I pitched that to Dwayne early on, and he loved the idea, and we’ve just kind of kept it in the back of our mind. We had a great conversation with Warner Brothers one time years ago, and we all settled on this was our character.”
Would you agree with Garcia that Black Adam is the perfect character for Dwayne Johnson in the superhero genre? While the timeframe of Black Adam’s release is currently unclear, the proposition has certainly got a lot of fans excited.
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Originally published August 29, 2018. Updated August 30, 2018.
