At CinemaCon in Las Vegas promoting Hercules this week, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson offered up a few clues as to which DC character he's talking to Warner Bros. about playing.
During an interview with journalists, he was asked directly if he might play John Stewart (Green Lantern) in an upcoming DC Universe movie, but of course answered indirectly with a few mysterious clues of his own.
Comingsoon reports: "Like everyone here in the room, I love superheroes, and we've been having ongoing discussions, myself and DC, for years about the right character," Johnson said. "What would the right character be? And that's another thing, too. It just had to be right. I won't tell you who it is, but I'll tell you the three qualities we're looking for and I'll let you guys figure it out, This is going to be fun. Here are the three qualities:
"The first quality we were looking for is that he had to be extremely complex and have a lot going on and what that does for me as an actor and for the studio, just gives us space that we can explore his complexities.
"The other quality is that the character we were looking for had to be well known but never brought to life. That does, again as an actor, is that it gives me a little bit of space and it just gives me a chance to put an imprint into his personality with the set of tools that I can 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 that he had to be a badass mother***ker and on a Superman level of power where he could throw down."
Johnson added that it's possible an announcement will be made by Comic-Con. No word on a cameo in another DC movie
Soon after the interview he tweeted, "Green Lantern (John Stewart) and Black Adam are my fav superheroes, but GL's already been made and stamped." Did he just drop a really big clue? Who would you see him playing in a DC movie?
[via Comingsoon.net]
image: Dwayne Johnson
