Plus, the basically made Atom Smasher a jokey goofball in Black Adam. Except he was neither funny nor charming.

If only we could get Vin, Dwayne, and Levi to star in a Three Amigos remake...

Levi has been awfully finger-pointy since the release, hasn’t he? Methinks someone other than The Rock’s ego is damaged as well.

I would swear that Dwayne was pounding the Black Adam drum around the same time we were all wondering “Marvel leveraged the future of their company to produce their own movies, and they’re starting with Iron Man? I don’t know if that’s going to pan out the way they hoped...”

giving Black Adam his own movie in the 1st place was a terrible idea. how many times is Hollywood going to do the whole ‘evil Superman’ thing? we’ve already had Zod, plus Justice League, plus that Gunn movie with the evil Superman kid, plus the Boys.  Enough already

Shazam should’ve just been its own insulated little movie series. That’s actually the way ‘Captain Marvel’ started anyway, before DC bought the separate comic company back in the ‘70s.

This news kind of brings into more sharp focus the little tidbits we’ve gotten here and there about The Rock not being as nice as he seems, or rather, being duplicitous - I’m thinking of the feud with Vin Diesel.

So the superhero-zation of Hollywood basically has led to some of the first real bad press for a popular actor. Sounds like the guy wanted his own piece of the superhero world and tried to kind of sneak his way in by making Black Adam a bigger DC character than he was. All the big lead roles were already taken. Black…

I’ve seen both Shazam movies but got bored halfway through Black Adam and turned it off. I understand that it makes sense for the characters to be on screen together given their background, but the tone of the movies is so different I think it would have been really weird to mash them together. I mean, weirder than…

I re-watched the 2004 Walking Tall not too long ago (it’s, like, 90 minutes! What a treat!) and The Rock gets his ass positively beat in it, which he would never allow to happen today. He really thinks his major selling point is that he’s an indestructible man with the thickest neck you’ve ever seen, instead of…

The Rock’s self-seriousness here is insane to me because the man’s actually worthwhile wrestling career was built on getting his ass beat. Like sure, he got over due to his mic skills and charisma, but a large part of it was that said charisma made him unafraid to look like the geek - he could always just rebuild…

I read a pitch for the Black Adam film somewhere: it starts off as a Rock vehicle where he’s supposedly the hero, only for Shazam to appear midway through to fight him and thus reveal that Adam is actually the bad guy.

“Black Adam can’t be seen fighting a jokey goofball like his canonical nemesis Shazam”.

Kind of impressive that The Rock managed to sabotage his own movie and someone else's at the same time.

It’s an interesting question simply for how long it took Black Adam to get made. (Plans for it pre-date Shazam, I believe.) I can see a situation where Superman was always the White Whale, but I can also see a situation were it became a change-up after DC started getting desperate.

True or not, it’s never going to be a good look to go on social media and go all in on all the reasons your movie didn’t perform well especially a week after the release.

The behind-the-scenes drama at Warner Bros/DC is honestly more interesting than some of their recent movies.

It always seemed strange that Black Adam wasn’t going to be in the second Shazaam movie. I get that they wanted to give Black Adam his own movie to start, but they probably could’ve planned in advance to accommodate that in the schedule. The first Shazaam was well-received, but it felt like they would need to spice…

Yeah, I’m kinda thinking Vin Diesel had the Rock figured out.