Speaking with Cinema Blend while promoting G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson talks about his upcoming performance as Hercules in the Brett Ratner-directed adaptation of the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars. He says the fact that Die Hard 2 director Renny Harlin is helming his own 3D Hercules movie, which is targeting a March 2014 release, doesn't bother him at all. He also says that the film is "darker in tone", and that he wishes to honor and respect the Hercules mythology in the adaptation. Finally, he gives some more detail into what to expect from the costume.
Johnson has also been associated with some unproduced comic book movies, namely DC Comics adaptations
Lobo and
Shazam. The Rock was in talks to play the title role in the former, while he was attached to the Black Adam role in the latter a few years ago. Here, he talks about why both projects were shelved, and says that he will end up playing a superhero someday.
"It [Lobo] kind of came and went. It came – I thought it was interesting – and then it kind of went away? Shazam was more interesting. And really interesting to me. I would have loved that, especially the idea of playing Black Adam. Again, though, studios start to look at other properties and other superhero properties, what makes sense and what doesn’t, but I’ll be a superhero down the line." If any, which comic book character would you like to see Johnson play?
You can next see Dwayne Johnson in action in
G.I. Joe: Retaliation on March 28th.
Hercules is set to hit theaters July 25th, 2014.