Black Adam was supposed to be in ‘Shazam’ but then ... the Rock had other ideas.
desire to separate Black Adam from Shazam. Johnson said that when he got the early script for “it was a combination of Black Adam and Shazam: Two origin stories in one movie,” which he felt would “be doing Black Adam an incredible disservice.”I made a phone call. I said, ‘I have to share my thoughts here. It’s very unpopular…’ because everybody thought, ‘Hey, this script is great, let’s go make this movie.
Was that the right call? We’ll see after we watch the movie and see how it does at the box office.looks like a fairly dark film, with the title character serving as this extremely grim avenger of wrongs — which stands in very stark contrast to the first comic hero in the lead role. They might not have fit together.