Although Shazam is not a Justice League character, there is still a good chance that the primary adversary of the superhero, Black Adam, will show up in the DC assemble movie.
- Mar 22, 2015
AceShowbiz - Despite Toby Emmerich's previous statement that "Shazam" had no ties to "Justice League", the villain Black Adam which will be played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the upcoming Shazam movie still could cross paths with the DC most powerful superheroes in the assemble movie. "I think so," he said.
"I think you always want to leave that creatively open that he could join the Justice League," he told IGN while promoting his new film "Furious 7". "That's the fun part of creating this character right now and everybody involved, from the studio, from New Line, to Warner Bros as well, to the writer, our producing partners."
"You definitely want to engage in his heroic side, but that has to be earned and with the mythology of Black Adam starting off as a slave, because when you start off as a slave, just inherently, there's things in your DNA that piss you off."
"And that's the bottom line, so I think we have to respect and pay homage to the true mythology and then the heroic side will come down the line, but I think it's important and we all feel it's important and I believe the fans at IGN feel it's important to make sure the homage is paid at the beginning because then you have a stronger foundation to stand on, and so he will become an anti-hero."
After the interview, the wrestler-turned-actor took it to Twitter to add, "He [Black Adam] shouldn't join #JusticLeague one fine day.. he should fight them."
"Shazam" is scheduled to be released by New Line Cinema on April 5, 2019, while "Justice League: Part One" is developed at New Line's parent company Warner Bros. for November 17, 2017 release and "Justice League: Part Two" is set for June 14, 2019.
New Line's president Toby Emmerich previously said, "It feels to me like like 'Shazam' will have a tone unto itself. It's a DC comic, but it's not a Justice League character, and it's not a Marvel comic. The tone and the feeling of the movie will be different from the other range of comic book movies."
