There’s nothing much that is currently known about the DC movie, Black Adam, except that it will feature actor Dwayne Johnson in the titular role and that the film’s script is currently being worked upon. This has left fans with a lot of questions about the status of the film.
During a recent interview with Collider, Hiram Garcia, president of productions at Seven Bucks Productions, has confirmed that Black Adam is definitely happening and that she is very excited about how the film’s script is taking shape. Well, this is definitely good news for Black Adam fans.
“Black Adam is definitely happening,” Garcia said when asked about the film’s status. “We’re actually very deep into a script on it right now, which is coming along really well. I’m really excited about the story we’ve crafted.”
Garcia said that being a huge comic book fan herself, it was always like a dream for her to make a superhero movie. She said she was always on a lookout for a perfect superhero character to match Dwayne Johnson’s personality, which she has finally found in Black Adam.
“Look, I’ve always been a huge comic book fan,” the Seven Bucks Productions president said. “I’ve always had this dream, I’ve always wanted to—You know, you kind of have like these goals of like, ‘One day I’d love to be able to do this and this,’ and making a superhero movie was definitely always one of my dreams. For the longest time, you know you kind of have this living superhero in Dwayne Johnson, so I was always trying to figure out what’s the perfect character that will kind of fit him and his look and his build and his kind of edge and the attitude he’s got.”
Garcia explained the qualities of the DC character which made her choose Johnson for the role.
“Black Adam just made kind of great sense. It was this kind of really cool antihero, kicks ass, who believes in basically exacting justice in his way with a fascinating backstory, the history he has with regards to having been a former slave and freeing his people and then getting his abilities and what happened from there,” she said. “So I pitched that to Dwayne early on, and he loved the idea, and we’ve just kind of kept it in the back of our mind. We had a great conversation with Warner Brothers one time years ago, and we all settled on this was our character.”
Originally The Rock was planned to appear in Shazam! as Black Adam, but those plans changed when the film studio felt that the two characters needed two separate films.
“So as we were developing an actual Black Adam and Shazam movie, we were just realizing that both characters are so special that we didn’t want to compromise either of them by cramming them both into the same movie,” Garcia said. “So that’s why we made the decision to let Shazam have his own standalone movie and kind of launch him properly, and then we’ll do the same for Black Adam. And so that kind of really freed things up. It allowed us to develop the right version of both.”
Garcia reiterated that work on Black Adam’s script which is currently underway and the studio is very excited about the film. She assured that the film will turn out to be an amazing one.
“So where we are now with Black Adam is we just got our latest script [from Adam Sztykiel],” Garcia added. “We’re doing some revisions on it. We’re extremely excited about it, the studio’s very excited about it. And I’m telling you man, as a comic book fan, when this thing comes out, it is going to be amazing (laughs). This is the fanboy in me talking to you, it’s going to deliver on the goods of everything you’d want to see Black Adam do, he’s going to be doing in this film.”
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Source: Collider
