The Rock skyller Black Adam-fiaskot på DC:s nya chefer

Alla känner vi vid det här laget till vilket fiasko den var, The Rocks ultrahaussade superhjältesörja Black Adam. Fansen hatade den. Kritikerna avskydde den och filmen i sig lyckades aldrig ens spela in vad den kostade att producera (och framförallt inte miljarderna som den kostade att marknadsföra). Dwayne Johnson vägrar dock ta på sig ett uns av den skulden utan menar på att det enbart handlade om att DC/Warner genomgick ett chefsbyte just då och att hans kriterier som världen bäst betalda skådespelare inte spelade någon roll för den nya ledningen. Här på Gamereactor skulle vi nog vilja påstå att det också hade att göra med att filmen var genomgående usel.

The Rock om Black Adam-fiaskot:
"I think that Black Adam got caught in a vortex of new leadership. And at that time, as we were creating Black Adam, developing it, shooting Black Adam, we got knocked down a little bit because of Covid and the shutdowns, got back up. There were so many changes in leadership. And as you know, any time you have a company, but especially that size and magnitude, that's a publicly traded company, and you have all those changes in leadership, you have people coming in who creatively, fiscally are going to make decisions that you may not agree with philosophically. That will always be one of the biggest mysteries.

You have the biggest opening of your career. Sure, no China, which could've been maybe 100 or 200 million more dollars. You have a superhero and you want to grow out the franchise. You bring back Superman and Henry Cavill, which the world went crazy. And we created a diverse superhero portfolio, where we have just men and women of color in Black Adam. So I think Black Adam was one of those movies that got caught in that web of new leadership. But hey, at the end of the day, you know what it is? It's like new ownership coming in, buying an NFL team and going, "All right, not my head coach, not my quarterback. Doesn't matter how many times you won a Super Bowl, doesn't matter how many rings we got, I'm going with somebody else."

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