10 Actors You Had No Idea Produced Awesome Movies

9. Dwayne Johnson - Shazam!

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The announcement that Dwayne Johnson would be playing Black Adam in the DC Movie Universe was met with hopeful optimism from both his fans and fans of DC.

The announcement was made back in 2014 and had many expecting 2019's Shazam! to be his big screen debut. When 2017 rolled around, there were multiple reports claiming he was no longer going to appear in the movie. Instead, he would work on a solo Black Adam movie instead.

Potentially due to how large of a star Dwayne Johnson had become, the decision to have a standalone Black Adam movie made sense. Building to the showdown between Black Adam and Shazam had potential. If Johnson was able to come into his role and the two movies were successful in their own right, their inevitable clash could prove lucrative. Thus, he left Shazam! to begin working on that project instead.

Had he stuck around just a little longer, he might've been able to convince them to cast John Cena in the star role, giving us two super-powered wrestlers on the big screen. Instead, he would go down simply as a credited producer for his preliminary production work.

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