WWE legend The Rock recently took to his Instagram account and posted a picture following his workout. His caption read:
“I can suck my gut in for only so long before one passes out 😂💪🏾
Great training session today.
Hot, intense, pushed hard and raised the bar just a little bit more.
Shout to @zoaenergy & @daverienzi for the energy and sweat equity.
#ironparadise
#gutsuckers”
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) was previously being positioned as the center of the post-Zack Snyder DC Extended Universe, with his film Black Adam being pushed as a soft reboot of the franchise and supported by a massive publicity campaign. A report recently blamed The Rock for Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ box office failings, revealing that the Black Adam star was to blame for the Justice Society being cut from the sequel.
Dirt Sheet Radio noted that a new report from the Wrap reveals how Dwayne Johnson sabotaged the once promising Shazam franchise by putting his own brand before the good of the DCEU.
Johnson reportedly vetoed a scene in Black Adam which would’ve seen Zachary Levi’s Shazam show up in a cameo. Shazam would’ve been recruited into the Justice Society of America by Alan Hodge’s Hawkman.
Johnson also reportedly vetoed a Black Adam cameo in the Shazam sequel. Johnson wanted to revolve the DCEU around a potential showdown between his Black Adam and Henry Cavill’s Superman. He seemingly had no plans to involve himself with Black Adam’s true canonical rival Shazam.
