Dwayne Johnson Called the Studio to Get Black Adam Removed from ‘Shazam!’: It’d Be a ‘Disservice’ to the Character

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Dwayne Johnson’s DC passion project “Black Adam” will finally open in theaters this October, but the character could’ve debuted in 2019’s “Shazam!” had Warner Bros.

went ahead with its original plan. The “Shazam!” movie went into development in 2014 with a script that included origins stories for both the title character and Black Adam.

The duo have a shared history in the comics, so it seemed fitting to launch their big screen iterations together in one film.

Johnson disagreed.“When the first draft of the movie came to us, it was a combination of Black Adam and Shazam: Two origin stories in one movie,” Johnson recently told Vanity Fair. “Now that was the goal — so it wasn’t a complete surprise.