Podcast | Black Adam (2022) and Draft Day (2014)

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In the new Film Stories Podcast: the sun sets on a run of DC superhero movies with Black Adam. And could the 2014 American football film Draft Day find a global audience…?

The plan with the DC Comics character Black Adam was firstly to make him part of the Shazam movie, and then – when Dwayne Johnson signed up for $20m+ plus – to give him his own adventure. Johnson, it seemed, wanted lots of adventures – including a crossover he reportedly lobbied hard for.

In the case of 2014’s Draft Day, here was a drama where the writing of draft one took a very hurried two weeks. But after initial interest, Paramount Pictures would drop the movie. Things suddenly looked really tricky – until the Black List came along to save the movie…

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