News: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Confirmed As Black Adam

Well what do you know? Warner Bros. announced who will be playing a DC Comics character and the internet greets it with a largely positive response! I suppose every cloud has a silver lining.

All summer long we have been hearing these rumors of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson possibly playing a superhero/comic book character in the ever expanding (and highly rushed) DC Universe.

The Rock has been teasing about it for so long that it was starting to become annoying to the point of fans yelling, "Just tell us already!". He made it very clear that he was either going to be playing Shazam or Black Adam and sources have just confirmed he will be playing the latter.

I'm going to be completely honest. I don't know squat about this guy or Shazam. As much as I adore comic book based films, I have never been an avid reader of the material. But regardless of if I have or haven't heard of him, this news gets me excited.

You might know this already, but I love The Rock. As far as I'm concerned he is a real life superhero. And to see someone I think is awesome, who also looks the part of a superhero actually getting to play one is, in my opinion, ideal casting.

It's also wonderful to know that he will not be appearing in,
Batman Vs. Superman: This is Not The Justice League Movie I'm Serious It's Not.
If they announced one more character I'm pretty sure the cast list would explode.

All in all, I'm pumped! What's not to like? If done correctly, this could be kind of like DC Comics answer to Guardians of the Galaxy in the sense of bringing relatively unknown comic book characters onto the big screen and making them well known to the average moviegoer and average joe.

Now if only they will tell us who Scoot McNairy will be playing. I have a few ideas that I hope will come to fruition...