Dwayne Johnson Confirms Black Adam 2 Isn't Happening At DC Studios

In the run-up to Black Adam’s launch, star Dwayne Johnson gave the impression to be making a giant energy play with the character in regard to DC’s future movies. However, with the altering of the guard at DC Studios and the movie’s lackluster field workplace efficiency, it looks as if Black Adam’s future is grim, and Johnson supplied an replace by way of Twitter.

“James Gunn and I connected, and Black Adam will not be in their first chapter of storytelling,” Johnson wrote. “However, DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to continue exploring the most valuable ways Black Adam can be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters.”

Before Black Adam’s launch, Johnson tweeted that the hierarchy of energy within the DC universe was about to vary. In comparability, this observe seems to be like an admission that the movie didn’t carry out as he’d hoped. On an estimated $200 million finances, the movie has solely made $391 million between the mixed United States and worldwide field places of work in keeping with field workplace tracker The Numbers. According to Johnson himself, the film will make about $52 to $72 million after contemplating manufacturing and advertising prices.

The movie’s launch and efficiency come at a tough time for Johnson. Just weeks after the movie’s launch, which included a cameo saying the return of Henry Cavill as Superman, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced the choice of James Gunn and Peter Safran as co-heads of DC Studios, with the intent for the pair to construct a multi-year manufacturing plan for the studio.

Previously, Cavill and Gunn each confirmed the previous would now not painting Superman; his return was a call pushed by Johnson and made by the outgoing Warner Bros. Discovery executives, and in the end conflicted with the imaginative and prescient the brand new co-heads have for the DC Universe.

Johnson’s phrases present an intent to take the change in stride and trace at a future for the character however act as a concession speech for his tried pseudo-takeover of DC Studios (in addition to an commercial for his Teremana tequila).

This tweet comes on the heels of a sequence of powerful selections by Gunn and Safran, together with scrapping a 3rd Patty Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman film along with future returns for Cavill and Johnson. Cameo appearances by Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Cavill’s Superman within the upcoming Ezra Miller Flash film have reportedly been faraway from the movie as nicely.