It is still possible there will be a soft reset for the character and Black Adam will be rebooted in a future DC movie or TV show. I'm going to go with somebody new,'' he added, alluding to new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran coming on board just days after Black Adam opened in 2022. 'It's almost like when you have a pro football team and your quarterback wins championships and your head coach wins championships and then a new owner comes in and says, 'Not my coach, not my quarterback. Critics took a couple shots, but that's just the business of it.' 'All that I can do, and all that we could do when we were making Black Adam was to put our best foot forward and surround ourselves with the best people and deliver the best movie we could,' he said. It's hard to imagine how the story set up in the first movie can organically be continued in the new DCU, especially since Henry Cavill has now officially hung up his Superman cape and we're getting a new Superman movie instead.ĭwayne Johnson talked to Variety in March about Cavill's Superman being dropped following his Black Adam cameo, and what it means for the potential franchise.

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