The fact that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson struggles to let go of Black Adam's box office failure may not come as a surprise given his history of success.
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To be fair, he spent a lot of time creating the movie and establishing the character's destiny only for it to bomb and for him and his favoured Superman (Henry Cavill) to be fired on top of that.
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Despite Johnson's efforts to cast the outcome in a more favourable light, his record shows a couple huge Ls in that regard.
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This may be the reason why reporters can't help but bring it up, even on the Oscars carpet several months later.
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And the reason The Rock, despite his customarily gracious answer, can't resist falling into the trap.
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He told Variety at the 2023 Oscars, "What I can do, and all we could do when we were making Black Adam,
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The Rock is free to blame Black Adam's problems on the public rather than the drama behind the scenes
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Johnson uses the following illustration to explain James Gunn and Peter Safran's choice
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