DC followers have hilariously thanked former “Black Adam” actor Dwayne Johnson for James Gunn’s “Superman” success, which opened nationally in theaters Friday and raked within the yr’s greatest field workplace preview complete with $22.5 million.
As TheWrap beforehand reported, in 2022 Johnson and Seven Bucks co-founder Dany Garcia met with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on not solely inserting Superman again into “Black Adam,” however based on 4 insiders with data of the assembly, positioning Seven Bucks to run DC and exchange then-chief Walter Hamada.
Garcia wasn’t employed to run the unit, and Johnson and Seven Bucks had been evicted from DC shortly after “Black Adam” tanked and Zaslav employed James Gunn and Peter Safran to run the division.
Now that “Superman” seems to be having liftoff on the field workplace — and boasts a optimistic 82% recent ranking on assessment aggregator Rotten Tomatoes — DC diehards had a discipline day on social media trolling Johnson and thanking him for pivoting the Warner Bros. plan away from Black Adam and Henry Cavill’s Man of Metal return and into the arms of Gunn and “Superman” star David Corenswet.
“Simply noticed Superman … Initially, I need to say: Thanks Dwayne Johnson,” one fan wrote on X in a viral submit, seen on the time of publishing 3.4 million occasions.
“Dwayne Johnson is the perfect factor to occur to DC,” one other wrote. “He was so dangerous we lastly acquired the Superman film we deserved.”
“When you consider it, we should always all thank Dwayne Johnson. As a result of if it weren’t for him, we’d be caught along with his DCEU and wouldn’t have James Gunn, the DCU and David Corenswet as #Superman,” wrote one other. “So thanks Rock. The hierarchy of the DC Universe positively modified … for the higher.”
“Superman was fireplace,” one other fan gushed. “I really feel like I owe Dwayne Johnson a thanks letter for f–king over the DC Universe. We wouldn’t have gotten this peak Superman film.”
“I thank Dwayne Johnson for placing the ultimate nail within the coffin of trainwreck DCEU with the Black Adam film he’s been wanting for years and for paving the way in which for us to see this masterpiece,” one other wrote of “Superman.”
Warner Bros./DC Studios’ “Superman” is off and flying on the field workplace with $22.5 million from preview screenings, probably the most for any movie this yr.
“Superman” has loved heavy anticipation from followers of the Man of Metal because it was first introduced greater than two years in the past, and Warner Bros. has seemed to capitalize on the hype with particular early fan screenings out there completely to Amazon Prime subscribers.
Listed below are extra reactions to “Superman” and Johnson’s franchise that would’ve been:
