Shortly after Dwayne Johnson announced he would no longer be playing Black Adam DC universewhich is being reformulated under the leadership of James Gunna report of The Hollywood Reporter provided information on the financial situation.
The website indicates that originally the idea of Warner Bros. Pictures was supposed to produce this film for $190 million (not counting the advertising campaign), but it all came out “too expensive” after bad test results.
After this “Twenty Days of an Expensive Round of Reshoots”that number rose to $260 million.
That said, the $391 million global collection made everything more complicated, and even the release on HBO Max fell short of expectations.
In the US, only 1.2 million viewers tuned in in three days.
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In ancient Kahndaq, Teth Adam was given the awesome powers of the gods, but after using them for revenge and becoming the Black Adam, he was imprisoned. Almost five thousand years have passed and Black Adam has gone from man to myth to legend. Now freed, his unique breed of justice born of hatred is challenged by modernday heroes that make up the Justice Society: Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Atom Smasher, and Cyclone.
Starring Dwayne Johnson (Rapid Revenge) as TethAdam, Aldis Hodge (The Invisible Man) as Hawkman, Pierce Brosnan (007: Against GoldenEye) as Doctor Fate, Sarah Shah (Person of Interest) as Adrianna, Noah Centineo (A Perfect Date) as Atom Smasher and Quintessa Swindell (Gatunas) as Cyclone.
It’s the antihero’s solo film based on the DC Comics, the great antagonist of Shazam! The idea is to explore his origin story and highlight his past as a slave in the nation of Kahndaq.