Dwayne Johnson Says His DC Universe Character Has "Superman Level of Power"

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Warner Bros. have been dancing around his casting in a DC Comics movie for quite some time. At one time he was rumored to be playing the villain Black Adam in a Shazam movie, and then he was briefly set to play Lobo in a Brad Peyton-directed film. Neither came to be, and recently rumors surfaced (aided by some conveniently-timed tweets by Johnson) that he could play John Stewart Green Lantern in Justice League.

At this point nothing has been confirmed, but Johnson spoke to CBR about finding the right character who has a very specific set of attributes.

Johnson: "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."

While that leaves a lot of questions unanswered, Johnson's next comments certainly seem to suggest he has already agreed to the role as he goes into the character's qualities that attracted him....

Johnson: "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 mother[frick]er, 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." 

Honestly, that could be just about anybody in the DC Comics universe, but it doesn't sound like Green Lantern. Perhaps they've decided to go back to the Black Adam or Lobo idea? Or, if the goal really is to provide a "unique twist" to the character, maybe he will play Captain Marvel aka Shazam, a character whose abilities certainly qualify as "Superman level". Or maybe he'll be the all-powerful villain, Darkseid? Lots of possibilities out there and hopefully we'll get some answers soon.