Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Black Adam’ Won’t Begin Production Until Late 2020, Says Producer

Black Adam producer Hiram Garcia has revealed when the Dwayne Johnson superhero film plans to begin production.

Fans have known that Dwayne Johnson will star as Black Adam in a standalone centered around the classic DC villain for years, though production on the project has taken some time to get off the ground. With the release of the acclaimed Shazam! movie, fans have only become more eager to see Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam join the DC Extended Universe and producer Hiram Garcia offered an update on when the project is expected to start filming during a conversation with Collider.

After touting the success of Shazam! and expressing his excitement over the plans to expand the universe, Garcia revealed the Dwayne Johnson film should begin production by the end of next year:

The success of Shazam! was awesome for us and it was important for us to launch that, get that out into the world and begin crafting this universe. It’s a big thing for us to create this universe, this DC section of the universe, with characters we have planned to bring into it, headlined by Shazam and Black Adam …Jaume Collet-Serra, he just closed his deal, which we’re very excited about, and the plan is to begin filming that end of next year.”

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Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions co-produced Shazam!, which is now available on all home media formats.

We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).

Directed by David F. Sandberg, Shazam! stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Grace Fulton, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Cooper Andrews, Marta Milans and Djimon Hounsou.

Shazam! is now available on Digital HD, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD.

Source: Collider