Dwayne Johnson has long been involved with Warner Bros, and has already been linked to various DC characters. After almost a year of cryptic tweets and vague answers at press conferences, we are on the verge of an announcement-or has he confirmed it already?

Let's take a look back at a press conference from CinemaCon last March, courtesy of SuperHeroHype.com. Someone threw the bone about the DC role, and Johnson answered graciously:

"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.

In those three qualities, I'm happy we've found that character and right now we're out to a lot of writers."

Being a former wrestler, Johnson really likes that phrase 'throw down.'

So it's no surprise that when Total Film had an interview with him for the premier of Hercules slated next week. "I will say this. There's a character out there that we're going to announce very soon that I'm going to play, and I'll just say this: This character has the power of Superman, he can throw down. Just say the word. That's all I'm going to say."

"Say the word"-what word? Is that "Shazam?"