Gunn was once introduced as co-CEO and co-chairman of DC Studios mere days after “Black Adam” arrived in theaters. Quickly, he started to rearrange the DC Prolonged Universe — and that intended eliminating Henry Cavill’s tackle Superman. Johnson addressed this shake-up in an interview with Selection, pronouncing, “It is virtually like you probably have a professional soccer group and your quarterback wins championships and your head trainer wins championships after which a brand new proprietor is available in and says, ‘No longer my trainer, no longer my quarterback. I am going to cross with any individual new.'”
Johnson had immediately pitched Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav way back to the spring of 2022 a few conceivable Black Adam-Superman crossover. He had additionally reportedly attempted for a number of years to convey Cavill again into the DC fold, so he was once understandably disenchanted when Cavill’s cameo on the finish of “Black Adam” did not quantity to anything else. In all probability as a result of this, he persisted to tout the movie’s field place of job numbers after the premiere of “Black Adam,” showing to make a case for a sequel.
“Waited to ascertain with financiers earlier than I shared this very good #BlackAdam information,” Johnson tweeted on December 7. “Our movie will PROFIT between $52M-$72M. Truth.” He then went on to evaluate “Black Adam” to “Captain The us: The First Avenger,” which made kind of $371 million international after it premiered in 2011. Alternatively, “Black Adam” additionally failed to land with critics.
