Dwayne Johnson’s Alleged Ego Tanked ‘Black Adam’ and ‘Shazam’: Report

Suddenly, Dwayne Johnson’s defensive Black Adam box office comments are starting to make sense. In a report published Tuesday, TheWrap quotes two “high-level Hollywood insiders” who allege that Johnson’s ego-driven antics “systematically crippled two franchises”—Shazam and his own DC Universe debut, Black Adam.

As TheWrap notes, there are plenty of issues within DC’s film division (which includes both the Black Adam and Shazam franchises) that have nothing to do with the man we sometimes call The Rock. At the same time, it wouldn’t help that, as two sources told The Wrap, Johnson worked to distance his character, Black Adam, from his main canonical link to the universe (Zachary Levi’s Shazam) and chose instead to pitch a face-off between himself and Henry Cavill’s Superman.

Johnson also allegedly axed a Shazam-themed post-credits scene at the end of Black Adam.

Read more at The Daily Beast.