Fast & Furious star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has made his desire to star in a comic book movie well-known publicly for years now, with characters like Black Adam and Luke Cage among those most often suggested by both the wrestler turned actor and his legion of fans.
While Johnson will get a chance to play a superhero of sorts in this summer’s Hercules, it appears as if he’s now made his dream come true as the former WWE Superstar confirmed in an interview with CBR that he will indeed be working with Warner Bros. on one of their upcoming DC comic book adaptations.
Asked about recent rumours that that might be as John Stewart/Green Lantern, he responded:
“So, you know, there’s been mutual interest with myself and DC for many years to find the right character. I, like everyone here in the room, love superheroes. So there’s been mutual interest with us for years, and we’ve been having ongoing discussions, myself and DC, for years about the right character, what the right character would be. That’s another thing, too: It had to be right.”
Johnson would then go on to cryptically list three qualities the the character he is playing has, perhaps offering up a few small clues to fans as to the identity of who the character is.
“The first quality we were looking for was that he had to be extremely complex and have a lot going on. What that does for me as an actor and the studio is it gives us space that we can explore; his complexities. The other quality was that he had to – the character we were looking for had to be well-known but never brought to life. Then what that does again as an actor, it gives me a little bit of space, and we talked about personality. It just gives me a chance to put an imprint into his personality, with the set of tools that I could bring to the table and put a very unique twist on his personality, but still pay homage to who he is. The third thing – and most important – is he had to be a badass motherfucker, OK, and on a Superman level of power, where [he] could throw down. In those three qualities, I’m happy we’ve found that character.”
This actually leaves us with a number of options. The Rock was at one point attached to play Lobo, but that reportedly fell apart, so could it be for Green Lantern or perhaps a villain like Darkseid in Batman Vs. Superman or Justice League? It’s hard to say at this point, but the fact that DC has nabbed him before Marvel is a much needed win for them in the long run!
To find out which ten DC characters we think The Rock might be playing, click here!
