DCU: Black Adam failure blamed by Dwayne Johnson.

The "hierarchy of power" in the DC Universe was not altered by Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam movie, which only made a pitiful $393 million during its theatrical run.

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The performer has been frank and honest about what went wrong.

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Johnson stated during an appearance on Kevin Hart's Hart to Heart, "I think that Black Adam got caught in a vortex of new leadership."

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He is correct; Black Adam underwent a lengthy development process, and James Gunn and Peter Safran were recently named as the new directors of the DC Universe.

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Johnson compared it to purchasing an NFL franchise and said, "I'm going with somebody else, regardless of how many Super Bowls you won or rings we received."

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You have new hires who will make financial and creative decisions that you might not agree with philosophically.

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Black Adam, in my opinion, was one of those pictures that got entangled in the web of the new leadership, he continued.

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And throughout our business, not just for myself and my team, but also for everyone else, that will always be one of the biggest mysteries.

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