Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson takes to the virtual DC Fandome stage and though it was not a full trailer, Johnson confirmed that Black Adam is still in very early pre-production stage but we did get a lovely comic book animated short by Jim Lee himself giving us the Origin of Black Adam.
Johnson continues to say that Black Adam has been a passion project for him and his team for ten years and the primary focus is to deliver the best film and story for the fans, to meet their expectations. The film will be an origin story for the character of Black Adam, who was a slave along with this family but was given the powers of Shazam but chose to deliver brutal unrelenting Justice and was imprisoned for 5000 years and is now released.
The story looks promising, it featuring the JSA (Justice Society of America) dates it before modern DCU stories, standard now for powerful characters to be introduced in the past just as Wonder Woman has by her origin being told in World War II and the sequel in 1984. But what interesting was how Johnson ended the segment….with a warning.
“The Hierarchy of Power in the DCU is changing! Tell Batman, Flash, Cyborg, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and even Superman. Black Adam is coming”
