Black Adam var ikke nogen succes i biograferne, og selvom at han havde gemt en hemmelig scene til slut der markerede Henry Cavills comeback som Superman, så tog Peter Safran og James Gunn over kort efter, og de har valgt en helt anderledes vej frem, der ikke involverer hverken Dwayne Johnson eller Henry Cavill.
Det er Johnson ret bitter over, og har udtrykt den bitterhed i et utal af interviews. I et interview med Variety går han så langt som til at sammenligne sig selv og Cavill med fyrede amerikanske fodboldstjerner:
"All that I can do, and all that we could do when we were making Black Adam, was to put our best foot forward and surround ourselves with the best people and deliver the best movie we could. Our audience score was in the 90s. Critics took a couple shots, but that's just the business of it. It's almost like when you have a pro football team and your quarterback wins championships and your head coach wins championships and then a new owner comes in and says, 'Not my coach, not my quarterback. I'm going to go with somebody new.'"
Det er en... kuriøs sammenligning. Hvad synes du om hans udtalelse her?