The Man in Black is back – and the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared a new look with Teth-Adam in a black suit from his set Black Adam, DC’s upcoming blockbuster starring Johnson as the start of Shazam’s comics. Teasing an “intense” production week as director Jaume Collet-Serra’s DC Films continues to put the finishing touches on a series of reruns, Johnson showed a black-and-white image of his muscular antihero. hashtags “protector of the people” and “man in black”. Check out Johnson’s new look Black Adam below.
“The intense production week continues as we put the finishing touches Black Adam,” The DC League of Super-Pets wrote the star on Instagram. “Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of playing some great (fun) characters all these years, but no one speaks to my DNA more than this antihero known as the man in black, Teth Adam. Anger against the death of light. “
Johnson concluded the post with a mantra warning the heroes of the DC Extended Universe: “The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change.”
Imprisoned for 5,000 years in the land of Kahndaq, the once enslaved Teth-Adam frees up the power given to him by the ancient magician (Shazam!‘s Djimon Hounsou). “I was a slave when I died,” Teth-Adam told the young man Black Adam footage revealed at CinemaCon. “When I was born again, I was a god.”
Johnson previously brought one Black Adam first look at the DC FanDome, revealing the tragic story of the character that Johnson and Collet-Serra compared to DCEU’s Dirty Harry.
“5,000 years ago, Kahndaq was a melting pot of magic and power. Most of us had nothing but chains around our necks. Kahndaq needed a hero. Instead, they took me,” the antihero told a tweet narrated by Johnson. screened at DC FanDome 2020. “I did what I had to do … and I was jailed for it. Now, 5,000 years later, I’m free. And I give you my word – no one will ever stop me again.”
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Noah Centineo, Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell and Pierce Brosnan, DC’s Black Adam opens only in cinemas on October 21.
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