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Sounds like Black Adam won’t be changing the DC Universe’s hierarchy of power after all.

If you’d asked just a few weeks ago what the future held for Warner Bros. Discovery’s live-action DC superhero movies, a reasonable person might have told you to expect to see more of Henry Cavill’s Superman and Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam beating the stuffing out of one another.

But that’s all changed under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios which — after sidelining Cavill’s Man of Steel in favor of a younger take on the character — is now planning to mostly retire the Rock’s magical man in black.

In a surprisingly optimistic post to his Twitter account this evening, the Rock announced that after a recent meeting with Gunn, it’s been decided that his Black Adam “will not be in [DC Studios’] first chapter of storytelling,” as the studio focuses on pursuing Gunn’s new vision for the studio’s future.

Johnson elaborated saying that while his take on the character will be taking a step back for the time being, his Seven Bucks production company is still committed to exploring Black Adam projects involving him “in future DC multiverse chapters,” which feels like it could mean anything from a DC League of Super-Pets follow-up to a small cameo in future films.

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