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via Warner Bros. With Shazam! Fury of the Gods on course to bomb miserably at the box office, it feels as though a weight has been lifted off the shoulders of leading man Zachary Levi, who now seems happy to unleash his own fury upon opposite number Dwayne Johnson. Throughout the dovetailing existences of both David F. Sandberg’s sequel and The Rock’s long-gestating passion project Black Adam, rumors ran rampant that the latter wasn’t exactly interested in crossing paths with his comic book arch-nemesis, even…

via Warner Bros. In perhaps the most unexpected case of life imitating art we’ve come across recently, Zachary Levi and Dwayne Johnson have become real-life archenemies, which is fascinatingly ironic when their comic book counterparts were never intended to come face-to-face on the big screen. Of course, we were all lulled into a false sense of security by believing that the long-term plan was for the former’s Shazam to throw down opposite the latter’s Black Adam, but salacious recent developments have ensured…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeZachary Levi has reposted an article suggesting that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson “kneecapped” Shazam! Fury of the Gods.DC Comics’s sequel starring Levi as the titular superhero has been a critical and financial bomb following its 17 March release.On Tuesday (21 March), The Wrap published a report claiming that Johnson had vetoed a post-credits scene featuring Levi’s character – a move…

Photo via Warner Bros. Dwayne Johnson just can’t seem to shake the bad press around Black Adam. After learning of his abrasive behavior and outlandish bids for control of the creative process, many fans came to see the popular actor a little differently. The hits just keep coming with fresh news that the star actually banned Zachary Levi from appearing in a cameo during the post credit scene of Black Adam. For his part, Levi doesn’t seem too concerned with the row, or the DCU anymore. The Shazam! actor reached…

Images via Warner Bros. Dwayne Johnson‘s decision to block Black Adam’s cameo in Shazam! Fury of the Gods continues to bite him after DC star Zachary Levi backed the report that he wasn’t allowed to appear in Black Adam, amongst other restrictions that the DC actor tried to impose during the sequel’s production. Levi shared a story on Instagram from user @cea.malayalam, where it was reported that Johnson attempted to deny the film’s director David Sandberg the ability to include Emilia Harcourt and John…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeZachary Levi reposted an article suggesting that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson “kneecapped” Shazam! Fury of the Gods.DC Comics’s sequel starring Levi as the titular superhero has been a critical and financial bomb following its 17 March release.On Tuesday (21 March), The Wrap published a report claiming that Johnson had vetoed a post-credits scene featuring Levi’s character – a move that…

Images via Warner Bros. Pictures While comic book readers may know that Shazam (or Captain Marvel, as he was formerly known) and Black Adam have a history going back decades, cinema-going audiences would be forgiven for having no idea the duo even know each given how totally separate Dwayne Johnson‘s Black Adam movie was from Shazam!, with sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods likewise avoiding any connection with The Rock’s anti-hero. This wasn’t always the case, though. We know that Fury of the Gods filmmakers…

Photo via Warner Bros. There’s no harm in creating a production company for the sole purpose of building projects entirely around the founder, owner, and CEO, but Dwayne Johnson has completely washed his hands of Shazam! Fury of the Gods in more ways than one. Conspiracy theories were spreading like wildfire in the buildup to David F. Sandberg’s sequel that The Rock was offered a cameo and turned it down, with scuttlebutt proclaiming that he deemed the franchise to be beneath him. Of course, that didn’t stop…

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images When you’re an absolute unit the size of Dwayne Johnson, it takes an awful lot of fuel and upkeep to remain in peak physical condition, something that’s regularly proven true by the sheer size of the actor and producer’s cheat meals. Aquaman would have a meltdown if he saw the mountainous volume of sushi The Rock can pack away in one sitting, and there’s no point even trying to list the amount of calories he can consume in one go, because there’s a high probability your…

Photo by Al Seib/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images As good as he is at the certain set of skills that helped elevate him into the cinematic stratosphere as one of the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid stars in all of Hollywood, one thing that Dwayne Johnson has constantly failed at is generating a shred of romantic chemistry with the overwhelming majority of his female co-stars. Whether he’s playing a husband, father, love interest, or anything in between, The Rock’s status as perhaps the most chaste A-lister…