Dwayne Johnson ‘Absolutely’ Plans to Make a Black Adam vs. Superman Movie: ‘That Is the Whole Point of This, Man’ - Yahoo Entertainment

Dwayne Johnson recently told CinemaBlend that “the full point” of bringing Black Adam to the large surface successful his ain standalone movie is truthful that 1 time helium tin marque a Black Adam vs. Superman movie. Johnson has often been asked by fans which quality would triumph successful a combat (“It depends connected who’s playing Superman,” helium said astatine Comic-Con implicit the summer). When asked straight if helium “intends to marque a movie wherever Black Adam fights [Superman],” Johnson replied: “Absolutely. That is the full constituent of this, man.”

“I person been saying for immoderate time, there’s a caller epoch successful the DC Universe that’s astir to begin,” Johnson said. “And what I meant by that was introducing a marque caller character. It’s not a sequel, not an existing IP. It was… you know, Black Adam. Two years agone the satellite had nary thought who helium was. We did, but not the remainder of the masses retired there. What I truly meant by, ‘This is simply a caller epoch successful the DC Universe,’ is listening to the fans. And doing our champion to springiness the fans what they want.”

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Johnson stressed that “I person been listening and I’ve been wanting to code fans for years” regarding the tendency to person Black Adam and Superman combat connected the large screen.

“I’ve been waiting for idiosyncratic to measurement up and code the fans and say, ‘Hey, we perceive you,’” Johnson added. “So finally, aft galore months turned into galore years, we ended up with what we ended up at. And the full extremity and volition present is to this caller era, caller time. Now let’s physique out.”

Johnson’s “Black Adam” movie besides stars Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari and Pierce Brosnan. The movie opens successful theaters Oct. 21 from Warner Bros.

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