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SMACKDOWN VIEWERSHIP, MORE ON ZELINA VEGA, WWE TALENT DC PRODUCTIONS WRAPPING & MORE WWE NOTES

Deadline.com reported that last night's Smackdown brought in 1.74 million viewers.

The Rock announced his DC Comics film Black Adam is in the last week of production.   For the uninitiated, Black Adam is an ancient Egyptian predecessor of DC Comics' Shazam! who became corrupted after receiving his powers. He's one of the more powerful and popular DC Comic villains and will allow Rock to play a darker character.  This is the first live action appearance for Adam on film.  There were allusions made to him, but not by name, in DC's feature film adaptation of Shazam!     Originally, Black Adam was slated to start shooting this summer with a December 2021 release, but obviously, everything was pushed back in regard to production due to COVID-19.  The film will release in July 2022 and feature the Justice Society of America as well.   I can't state how excited I am to see Dr. Fate on the silver screen.

John Cena's DC series Peacemaker will wrap next week as well.  The original plan was for production in Vancouver to wrap around 7/6 but it will be a few days beyond that.  The series will premiere on HBO Max this December.    Cena's portrayal of Peacemaker will be the first ever live action incarnation of the character, a soldier and super-hero who loves peace so much he is willing to kill for it.  The character was originally created by Charlton Comics but acquired by DC in the mid-80s.    Cena is billed third in the cast, following Margot Robbie and Idris Elba.  In September 2020, HBO Max ordered an eight-episode first season for the series as a spinoff for the forthcoming Suicide Squad film starring Cena with James Gunn, the writer and director of Squad and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy returning to write and direct the series.  The series will explore Peacemaker's background before the Suicide Squad film.   In promotional material for the film, Cena has described this take on Peacemaker as a "douchey Captain America."  The Suicide Squad film is slated for a August 6, 2021 release and is the second Squad film, based on the DC Comics series with the premise of the United States government forcing incarcerated super-villains to go on suicide missions under threat of death.   

As a follow-up to my Q&A about the return of Zelina Vega, we've have received a number of questions about Vega deleting her comments about unions and pro wrestling and whether she had deleted it because of her WWE return.  If someone scrolls down her Twitter feed, they will see that Vega wiped her entire feed clean back in May, so everything before that point, including all the Tweets around her WWE exit (which was November 2020) would also have been deleted.  So, it's a "nothing to see here" sort of deal.

Vega was on Talking Smack today:

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