Originally, the plan was for Black Adam to be the antagonist in Shazam!. However, plans changed and a solo outing for the anti-hero was announced before that was pushed back to once again make room for Shazam. Presumably, the plan is to now have them star in their own movies before bringing them together but if you were hoping to see Black Adam as soon as next year, then you can guess again.
"I’m not in that one," Dwayne Johnson confirmed in a recent interview. "It’s Shazam! and Black Adam and, with the way the DC universe works, we should — in theory — meet up on the big screen. But who knows." There's a chance that the actor is misleading us, of course, and it would be a wasted opportunity to not have Black Adam appear (then again, this is Warner Bros. we're talking about).
We'll just have to wait and see but we don't actually know whether or not Johnson has signed up to play Black Adam so that could be why he isn't appearing in Shazam!. Here's hoping he's deliberately just misleading us here, though. What do you guys think? As always, be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments section and stay tuned to CBM for updates as and when we have them.
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