Is The Rock Playing Shazam?

While being interviewed by Total Film, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson teased his DC movie role. Check out the clip.

Sure sounds like he'll be playing Shazam. Personally I would have rather seen him play John Stewart. Guess we will hear the official announcement at San Diego Comic Con and form an opinion then.

Geoff Johns has been shoving the character of Shazam down the throats of DC fans for the last year and a half or so. First he takes Aquaman's place in Justice League: War and now he gets his own movie before someone like Wonder Woman. What is DC's thought process there? While I will say Johns did a good job reinventing Shazam's origins in the backup pages of the Justice League comic, I still do not wish to see the character on the roster of the live action Justice League. He still is far too similar to Superman and there are many characters that are much more deserving of a place on the team instead of Billy Batson. I'm looking at you Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Flash. Shazam just doesn't deserve his own big screen adaption even if he is being played by a big box office draw like the Rock. I hope that if this movie does exist that the character will still sit out of the first Justice League. Quit fucking with the League's roster Geoff. Except when you added Lex in the comics that was cool.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to Play a DC Character?!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is known for being one of America's biggest action stars. So it is big news to hear that according to an interview courtesy of Comic Book Resources, that The Rock is claiming he has been chosen to play a DC comic character. 

Here is a direct quote from the interview: 

When pressed for which role he was in talks to play Johnson cryptically responded with three qualities of the character.

“The first quality we were looking for was that he had to be extremely complex and have a lot going on,” he said. “What that does for me as an actor and the studio is it gives us space that we can explore; his complexities. The other quality was that he had to – the character we were looking for had to be well-known but never brought to life. Then what that does again as an actor, it gives me a little bit of space, and we talked about personality. It just gives me a chance to put an imprint into his personality, with the set of tools that I could bring to the table and put a very unique twist on his personality, but still pay homage to who he is.”

So that leaves us with a ton of characters to speculate about. Lots of people are saying he will be playing Darkseid or John Stewart. I'm gonna be different and say he will play Amazo. He does not confirmed that he will be seen in Batman vs. Superman, so I am going to assume he will be part of the Justice League film instead. Anyway, Batman vs. Superman is filming now and is expected out in theaters 2 years 1 month and 12 days from now. Not like I am counting or anything.

Read the interview: http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/03/25/dwayne-johnson-talks-up-hercules-teases-badass-dc-comics-role/