Black Adam

Black Adam dropped its trailer on Wednesday morning, giving the world the first full look at Dwayne Johnson as the titular DC Comics anti-hero.

That relationship I think is going to be really celebrated." "The violence is real and it can be rough and gruesome in places, but I think the audience will be okay. Furthermore, Black Adam is on a collision course with Shazam!, a DC character who was made to be family-friendly in his debut film. That relationship between Cyclone and Atom Smasher, I think is very unique. I mean, we really like to service all demos, all ages, but we had to be authentic to Black Adam and we had to really push," Flynn said. While speaking to ComicBook.com, Black Adam producer Beau Flynn opened up about how far the DC Comics film will push the intensity and violence.

The first trailer for Black Adam starring Dwayne Johnson arrived today, providing the initial extensive look at the upcoming film from Warner Bros. and DC.

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock)June 8, 2022 — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock)June 8, 2022 It got BLACK ADAM.”

We break down the Black Adam trailer frame by frame and discuss what it could all mean for the highly-anticipated DC film.

Chances are this moment happens at the beginning of the movie, when Teth-Adam wakes from his long slumber and tries to figure out what is happening in the world. In this scene, Teth-Adam is still wearing a cape so damaged by the passage of time that it looks like it belongs to a museum. This version of Doctor Fate sounds like the hero has already seen too much in his lifetime, and Brosnan is the perfect choice to play a veteran hero trying to keep his team together while new meta-humans show up. That kind of loss can devastate any person, and Teth-Adam will apparently use his pain to fuel his rage against the people he sees as evildoers. So, when he finally breaks free, it’s easy to understand the interest of the JSA. It looks like, at first, the JSA will help the anti-hero recover and get back on his feet, and they even invite Black Adam to be a part of the team. The trailer is everything we could expect, with Johnson mowing down his enemies while wearing the black and yellow suit that’s so iconic in the comic books.

io9 spoke to Dwayne Johnson and the team behind the DC anti-hero film about what's coming next.

“I am 100% committed to not only Black Adam, but then expanding the Black Adam universe [and] the DC universe,” Johnson said at the event. I think that’s where the power is. “So this is the beginning,” Johnson continued. Both Flynn and Garcia confirmed that there was a script to that end but when Johnson read it three years later, he knew it would be better served as two movies. “I think right now it hasn’t been in our thoughts because they’re just such tonally different movies,” Garcia said. io9 was among a group of journalists who spoke to Johnson and Black Adam director Jaume Collet-Serra, as well as producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia, about the project.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson enters the DC Comic Book universe as Black Adam in the superhero film, in theaters October 21.

Obviously all these superhero movies just require so much VFX, and we’re just in a situation where the majority of the VFX houses are just completely swamped with work.” Quintessa Swindell is Cyclone and Pierce Brosnan is Kent Nelson aka Doctor Fate, who encourages Black Adam to use his powers for good rather than destruction. Johnson stars as Black Adam aka Teth-Adam, an extraterrestrial who was imprisoned on planet Kahndaq for 5,000 years.

Black Adam trailer has arrived, fully unleashing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brand new force to be reckoned with in the DC universe.

Black Adam will release in theaters on October 21, 2022. Following Black Adam, DC’s The Flash will release in theaters on June 23, 2023, while Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will now be released in theaters on March 17, 2023. “I was a slave until I died.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's long-awaited Warner Bros. DC film opens October 21.

And then as more comes out, you guys will get a little bit more of the story.” But the idea was, this is a bit more of a teaser. “You get a little bit in terms of some of his motivation. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Black Adam is currently scheduled to open on October 21, and in this first teaser trailer, you’ll meet the man in black himself as well as a slew of other heroes. He’s a threat and they’re not used to having someone like that, who’s a live wire, that powerful, and so a team needs to go investigate.” “One, that the movie’s fun.

We break down the cast and crew, the characters, the comic book backstory, and more, including details from the first trailer.

In the modern part of the film, Black Adam will face Justice Society members Hawkman ( Aldis Hodge), Dr. Fate ( Pierce Brosnan), Atom Smasher ( Noah Centineo), and Cyclone ( Quintessa Swindell). The latter two are more recent members of the team who can claim original JSAers The Atom and The Red Tornado as relatives. Also, it is worth noting the Wizard’s ( Djimon Honsou) own mention of Teth-Adam’s failure in Shazam! when he first encounters Billy ( Asher Angel). We imagine Black Adam will expand on those fleeting moments. After ten or so years of talking about it in one form or another, Black Adam will finally come to theaters on October 21. Sarah Shahi also appears in the film as Adriana Tomaz. Although the studio describes her as an archeologist, comic book fans will recognize her as the reincarnation of Teth-Adam’s long lost wife and, eventually, the superhero known as Isis. The comic book character has some rather twisty origins, though, which means older TV viewers will remember her as a different Isis ( Joanna Cameron) from The Secrets of Isis Saturday morning television show – in which she occasionally encountered Shazam – while avid Legends of Tomorrow watchers will recall her connection to Zari Tarazi ( Tala Ashe). We doubt those connections will come up in the film, but with a Multiverse just off-screen, anything is possible. Although, as the team is also comprised of legacy character in subsequent iterations, we imagine this version of the team will reveal almost a century’s worth of legacy, if even just in passing. The Batman, for instance, does not occur in the same reality as Justice League or Shazam! Nevertheless, we’re willing to believe Black Adam was made with the intention of continuing the reality first outlined in Man of Steel – indeed, Johnson’s own comments across both DC FanDome events suggest a showdown with Superman is something he wants to do. Also, we imagine there will be a good reason why they are dealing with Black Adam instead of the Justice League. That is the internal struggle Teth-Adam faces, of course, and it appears he will do just that even as he tussles with insurgents, well-armed militaries, and superheroes. At the same time, as Dr. Fate ( Pierce Brosnan) tells him in the trailer, he will be presented with a choice to save the world or destroy it. Black Adam appeared in a single 1945 issue of the original Fawcett Comics’ The Marvel Family as the Wizard Shazam’s former and failed apprentice. Writers like Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway would take his single appearance and build on it to include a deeper history in the region, a long-lost family, and a position as Captain Marvel’s Shazam’s archfoe. For the moment, we’re assuming it takes place on the same Earth as previous DC films like Shazam!, The Suicide Squad, and Justice League (either version). Of course, with DC-inspired movies, film-to-film continuity is always up for debate.

Dwayne Johnson's super-antihero movie finally comes to theaters in October.

Naturally, that often involves electrocuting people to death with a scary version of Shazam’s powers, which, to the uninitiated, seems like something a bad guy would do. “Then I was reborn a god. “I was slave until I died,” Johnson says in trailer.

In the New 52 continuity, Billy Batson, a.k.a. Shazam, met Black Adam shortly after he was chosen by The Wizard to be his new champion at the Rock of Eternity.

Did the Wizard originally pick Adam’s son to be his champion, and then once he died, he was cool with Adam inheriting the mantle? When Asher Angel’s Billy Batson was brought to the Rock of Eternity, he learned how Black Adam had been the champion of Djimon Hounsou’s Wizard millennia ago; Adam wasn’t outright named in the movie, but it was obviously him. Or did the Wizard try to take back that power from Adam, and that led to the Seven Deadly Sins wreaking havoc? What if, just like what happened between Adam and Aman in the comics, Johnson’s Adam actually murdered his son after not approving of the way he was using his power? However, in the DCEU, it will be Adam’s son instead of his nephew, and the circumstances behind the transfer of power have changed. We’ve known for years that Dwayne Johnson’s Teth-Adam will also be a slave from ancient Kahndaq, and just like in the New 52, a family member of his will be granted incredible power before him.

Pierce Brosnan holds his Dr Fate helmet while looking up stoically in Black Adam. (Image credit: Warner Bros/DC). Warner Bros' ...

Even in the small bit of action we’ve seen in this trailer, Brosnan’s hypothetical spot in this comic universe is something that feels right. This is even more of an interesting coincidence, as today just happens to be an important day in Brosnan’s 007 history. As the new trailer for Black Adam is now online, Johnson’s anti-hero isn’t the impressive figure shown, as more of Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate has been revealed.

Nearly 5000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods, Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb.

'Black Adam' is the rare DC or Marvel movie where the actor is more famous than the superhero.

Just as Ant-Man boasted a comic movie star in Paul Rudd who was arguably more famous than Scott Lang, so too does Black Adam have an action hero movie star who is more famous than the superhero. “Dwayne Johnson in a Rampage movie” or “Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart in an updated version of Jumanji” is often seen by audiences as “a high concept Rock star vehicle that happens to be based around that thing I know” versus an IP > star sell. While Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is one of the names that gets tossed about when discussing the last real-deal movie stars in Hollywood, he tends to do best when encased in a franchise.

First full look at Johnson as brand new DC Comics character is finally out as action-packed trailer debuts online.

In October last year, the actor shared a short clip of Black Adam emerging from his tomb on social media, saying: “This character, this film, this universe has been a gigantic passion project of mine for a very long time. Former pro wrestler Johnson has been extremely vocal in his enthusiasm for his new superhero project prior to the movie's release. In the flick, Johnson plays Black Adam, a lesser-known character from DC Comics who, in the movie at least, is a former Egyptian slave reborn as a God.

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Fans can get to know more about the comic book origins of Black Adam and The Justice Society on the DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription service. The excitement kicks off Tuesday, July 5 with Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Hawkman #1, on sale at comic book shops and participating digital retailers. After 5000 years of imprisonment, Black Adam is ready to impose his unique version of order on the modern world. aldis hodge black adam, Each issue features a main story by writer Cavan Scott, plus a backup story by Bryan Q. Miller charting the path of Teth-Adam, from slave, to prisoner, to becoming the titular antihero. Black Adam – The Justice Society Files: Meet the DC Super Heroes Taking On Black Adam This October!

With the likable Dwayne Johnson playing him, think of this superpowered comics character as an antihero rather than a villain.

In the trailer, Black Adam says he was a slave until he died -- and then he's shown being horribly murdered: slashed and thrown off a cliff. He plays Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate, a member of the Justice Society of America and the son of an archeologist. He's also told in the trailer that he can be "the destroyer of this world, or you can be its savior." In the original comics, Black Adam was a corrupted ancient Egyptian with a complicated backstory. And he seems to lean that way in the film. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Black Adam in a new DC Comics feature film coming out from Warner Bros. on Oct. 21, but even loyal comics readers may have no idea who this character is.

Warner Bros. While we're waiting for the sequel to DC's 2019 superhero caper Shazam, this spinoff tells the origin story of Shazam's greatest nemesis.

We got a first look at the flick in October at DC Fandome. It showed archeologists zapping Black Adam with a bolt of lightning. He gains superpowers from the same ancient wizard from whom Shazam scored his lightning powers -- read our guide to Black Adam to find out more. In the comics, Black Adam hails from fictional North African nation Kahndaq, where he was imprisoned for 5,000 years.

This week, audiences were treated to the first teaser trailer for Black Adam, the newest film set within the live-action DC universe.

In addition to finally bringing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's portrayal of Black Adam to the masses, the film will introduce general audiences to a live-action incarnation of the Justice Society of America, the longest-running ensemble within the pages of DC Comics. While Black Adam's JSA only factored into a small portion of the larger trailer, DC recently revealed a pretty epic look at the members of the team. On Thursday, DC released the full covers for the Black Adam: The Justice Society Files, a series of one-shots chronicling the events prior to the upcoming film. This week, audiences were treated to the first teaser trailer for Black Adam, the newest film set within the live-action DC universe.

We're used to seeing most of our comic book movies blend in some humor with the action, but the trailer here is pretty lacking in one-liners. While DC Universe ...

And having Black Adam as a bit more of a dry and serious character does make some sense. I have to say, Dwayne Johnson dressed as Black Adam is menacing enough that even hearing him say the word “toodaloo” is disturbing. However, based on a new video it looks like Black Adam might still have some laughs, as the main character’s “catchphrase” is ridiculous.

First trailer for Dwayne Johnson's DC anti-hero project, Black Adam, that shows us Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate feels like it is cutting around something and ...

In this Shazam spinoff, think of Dwayne Johnson's superpowered comics character as an antihero rather than a villain.

In the trailer, Black Adam says he was a slave until he died -- and then he's shown being horribly murdered: slashed and thrown off a cliff. He plays Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate, a member of the Justice Society of America and the son of an archeologist. He's also told in the trailer that he can be "the destroyer of this world, or you can be its savior." In the original comics, Black Adam was a corrupted ancient Egyptian with a complicated backstory. And he seems to lean that way in the film. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Black Adam in a new DC Comics feature film coming out from Warner Bros. on Oct. 21, but even loyal comics readers may have no idea who this character is.