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Gunn was announced as co-CEO and co-chairman of DC Studios mere days after “Black Adam” arrived in theaters. Soon, he began to rearrange the DC Extended Universe — and that meant getting rid of Henry Cavill’s take on Superman. Johnson addressed this shake-up in an interview with Variety, saying, “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.'”
Johnson had directly pitched Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav as far back as the spring of 2022 about a possible Black Adam-Superman crossover. He had also reportedly tried for several years to bring Cavill back into the DC fold, so he was understandably disappointed when Cavill’s cameo at the end of “Black Adam” didn’t amount to anything. Perhaps because of this, he continued to tout the film’s box office numbers after the premiere of “Black Adam,” appearing to make a case for a sequel.
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“Waited to confirm with financiers before I shared this excellent #BlackAdam news,” Johnson tweeted on December 7. “Our film will PROFIT between $52M-$72M. Fact.” He then went on to compare “Black Adam” to “Captain America: The First Avenger,” which made roughly $371 million worldwide after it premiered in 2011. However, “Black Adam” also failed to land with critics.
