This one shouldn’t come as much of surprise. The Rock has been teasing some sort of involvement in the live action DC Universe for some time, but this morning Variety finally locked the news down, Dwayne Johnson will be Black Adam in the forthcoming ‘Shazam’ from Warner Brothers.
From Variety:
Though Dwayne Johnson hasn’t been shy about teasing his potential involvement in DC and New Line’s “Shazam” movie, the superhero comicbook pic now looks closer to achieving lift-off.
Sources tell Variety that Darren Lemke is set to write the script with Johnson attached to star. Johnson will play Black Adam, who in recent issues of the DC comicbook, is more of an anti-hero trying to clear his name than a villain.
Hiram Garcia is producing.
Johnson confirmed the casting this morning by tweeting out which character he would be playing in the film.
Not much in the way of details just yet, but something tells me we’ll get our Shazam casting next.