For a brief period of time, DC Films appeared to operate like a ship without its rudder. Projects like Wonder Woman 3 were being put on ice. The Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace in the title role was straight-up cancelled while heading into post-production. And a handful of the upcoming DC movies didn’t fit into any sort of unfurling narrative, so fans couldn’t figure out if Black Adam fit with Shazam: Fury of the Gods, or if The Flash was going to somehow reset the universe. Eventually, James Gunn and Peter Safran were named co-chairmen of DC Studios, and their initial slate of films were revealed. But now reports are coming out that, when The Rock was pushing for his Black Adam to be the center of the DC Universe, he stonewalled a Shazam cameo in favor of the Henry Cavill Superman scene.
But honestly, that scene wouldn’t have rescued either franchise, as numbers prove audiences are ready to move on from this iteration of the DC Universe.
