A few years back, DC revealed their full DC Extended Universe slate. That’s right, I’m going way back. This came after we already knew that The Rock would be taking on the role of Black Adam, and it was even stated that he’d be showing up in the standalone Shazam! movie, which was slated for 2019 (hey, what do you know? They made it!). But as Batman v Superman started to waver and the tail end of their slate started to fall apart, the idea of a Shazam! movie seemed to fall by the wayside.
Of course, that didn’t end up happening. If anything, it got fast-tracked pretty recently, and one big change was that Black Adam would, in fact, not be showing up in the film. The only glimpse we saw of him came in the form of a hologram image, and he wasn’t even called out by name by the Wizard who gives Billy Batson his powers. So how did it come to this? How did this project turn from a Shazam v. Black Adam story to a Shazam-focused one?
“That’s something [the studio was] looking at in the past because they wanted to do a Shazam! movie for quite some time,” Sandberg told TheWrap. “I think they felt that for a first movie, you need to focus on Shazam and give him the space that he needs to really introduce him to new audiences.”
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In a recent Instagram post from Dwayne Johnson, he also expressed as much, stating that if they had gone with Black Adam as a villain, they essentially would have had to do a movie with two origin stories, which would have been hard to juggle.
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SOURCE: TheWrap
