“Black Adam” Starts filming in 2019
Dwayne Johnson believes that his upcoming Black Adam movie should start filming in 2019. Johnson initially signed on to play the DC Comics supervillain-turned-anti-hero as part of Warner Bros.’ unofficially titled DC Extended Universe (DCEU) in 2014. Things have been slow going ever since up until last year. It was believed that Johnson would play the antagonist in David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! Which is slated to release in 2019. But that didn’t turn out to be the case.
Mark Strong is actually playing Shazam!‘s titular villain, Doctor Sivana. Instead of appearing in next year’s DCEU installment, Johnson will first appear in a solo Black Adam movie before eventually facing off against the superhero Shazam, played by Zachary Levi. At the moment, the Black Adam movie is without a director, but it recently received a script from Rampage scribe Adam Sztykiel. It seems that the powers that be behind the project are happy with what Sztykiel delivered. They are looking to enter production sometime next year.
Mark Strong is actually playing Shazam!‘s titular villain, Doctor Sivana. Instead of appearing in next year’s DCEU installment, Johnson will first appear in a solo Black Adam movie before eventually facing off against the superhero Shazam, played by Zachary Levi. At the moment, the Black Adam movie is without a director, but it recently received a script from Rampage scribe Adam Sztykiel. It seems that the powers that be behind the project are happy with what Sztykiel delivered. They are looking to enter production sometime next year.
In an interview with Yahoo Movies for his latest film, Rampage, Dwayne Johnson briefly discussed Warner Bros.’ production plans for DC’s Black Adam movie, saying that the film should start rolling cameras in 2019 if everything goes according to plan. He said: “The script came in, it’s great, we’re working on it. If things come together in the way we anticipate them coming together, that feels like a 2019 movie, in production.” Johnson also discussed his and DC Films’ hopes for the movie and properly serving the source material:
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“Marvel is doing such an incredible job of universe building and building out … and DC is doing a great job finding the footing and tone of their movies, certainly with like Wonder Woman, for example. I look forward to James Wan’s movie that’s coming out, with Aquaman. So, Black Adam is this phenomenal opportunity for us to nail the tone, make sure that he’s badass, make sure that we’re serving the mythology properly, but then, also make sure that we can have intrinsic DNA tied to a lot of other properties in DC. So, it’s not an easy thing to do, but I think we’re going to nail it.”
