Dwayne Johnson Reveals How He Got [SPOILER] in Black Adam's Mid-Credits Scene
300[The following contains spoilers for Black Adam]
If you’re a fan of Henry Cavill’s Superman, the mid-credits scene in Black Adam was incredible. Not only did the scene tease his return to the DC universe, but it also opened up the possibility of Cavill’s Superman fighting Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam in a future movie. And as a huge fan of Cavill’s portrayal of the Man of Steel, I could not be more excited.
However, while you might think the decision to put Superman in the mid-credit’s scene was a no brainer, consider the first Shazam! movie and how DC and Warner Bros. toyed with the fans. If you don’t remember, Superman does appear, but it’s from the neck down, so you have no idea who is in the suit, and I cannot express how frustrating it was for Cavill fans like me. I left the theater loving the movie and hating that scene.
Which brings me to my recent interview with Dwayne Johnson for Black Adam. I’d heard from multiple sources Johnson wanted Henry Cavill as Superman in the movie, but he was getting push back from the studio. For a long time, people told me Cavill would be in the mid-credits scene, or a cameo in the movie. But then I started hearing it wasn’t going to happen. It wasn’t until I saw the movie at the first press screening in L.A. that I realized Johnson had pulled it off and made the cameo happen. You have no idea how happy I was leaving the theater.
So, when I sat down with Johnson for an interview, the first thing I asked him was how it happened. After explaining how he and his team have been friends with Cavill for many years (his business partner, Danny Garcia, is also Cavill’s manager), he talked about wanted to give the fans what they wanted. But it wasn’t easy. He explained:
It got to a point where collectively, I want to say myself, Danny and Hiram (Garcia), we said, "Here's how the movie should end. And I'll give you one further, test it, and if it doesn't work, we'll never talk about it again. Test it." We shot it, to their credit, new leadership. They saw it and said, "We don't even have to test it."
As he says, it was the new leadership at WB that gave the greenlight to have Cavill return as Superman, which makes it sound like it was the previous regime at WB/DC that prevented it from happening sooner.
In addition to talking about Superman and how that happened, Johnson talked about the importance of doing right by the character and the mythology of Black Adam (which meant showing Black Adam killing people), why he wanted the awesome fight scene between him and Hawkman to showcase the superpowers that Black Adam has and to be able to show someone that can move incredibly fast.
Check out what Johnson had to say in the player above
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