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In his career, Dwayne Johnson’s name and star power tends to overwhelm the characters he plays. Figures in features likeare just variations on his real-life media personality rather than Johnson portraying a fictional standalone entity. Still, a few notable characters have become associated with Johnson. There’s Maui from the Moana
movies, for one. Then there’s Luke Hobbs, his Fast & Furious villain-turned-hero who has gone on to become a staple of that franchise. The titular lead role ofThen there’s a character from a Shane Black directorial effort that never got off the ground. Playing this figure would’ve meant Johnson was inhabiting a fictional hero that dates back to the early 1930s. Playing this figure would have ensured that Johnson was stepping into a much larger pop culture legacy than just his own.
If DC wasn’t knocking on Johnson’s door, he’d go headline a different kind of superhero movie anchored by a figure who even preceded Superman in the history books.Variety movie had become tangled up with a foe even this ancient superhero couldn’t solve: legal problems. Rights issues related toprevented the project from becoming a reality. Presumably because of the character’s relatively obscure status, Sony/Columbia Pictures and Original Film weren’t rushing to save. There were other tentpoles these entities could finance instead, without having to deal with so many lawyers.. Nothing else ever came out of that endeavor.
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