Dwayne Johnson Reportedly Wants To Produce Man Of Steel 2
Despite the recent release of
Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it’s become clear that Warner Bros. wants to kill the SnyderVerse and continue with their plans to reboot the DCEU. However, one major new player in the franchise is said to be having none of it.
Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson is believed to be fighting to bring back Snyder’s League. Maybe even in his own version of
According to Mikey Sutton of Geekosity, The Rock wants to produce the aforementioned sequel, which would see Henry Cavill return as
Batman v Superman, failed to match the impossible billion-dollar revenues of
The Avengers, Warner Bros., according to Snyder, began to push back on his plans. At the same time, Snyder suffered a terrible personal tragedy in the death of his daughter Autumn, and made the decision to leave the film rather than engage in a long creative struggle.
Following Snyder’s exit,
Justice League was handed off to
Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon, who rewrote and reshot significant portions of the film, to mostly disastrous results. That sense of disaster extended to his behind-the-scenes conduct, a still-unresolved scandal that has overtaken discussion about the film. Since last summer, actor Ray Fisher, who plays the mechanically enhanced hero Cyborg in the film, has said that Whedon exhibited “abusive and unprofessional” behavior on the set during reshoots. Fisher has also accused DC Entertainment then-president Geoff Johns and producer Jon Berg of enabling Whedon. While Fishe