«Black Adam» is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
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- Black Adam is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
- It was produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, Seven Bucks Productions, and FlynnPictureCo.
- It is intended to be a spin-off from Shazam! (2019) and the 11th film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
- The movie was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
- The script was written by Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani.
- In film stars Dwayne Johnson as the title character alongside Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell, Bodhi Sabongui, and Pierce Brosnan.
- Johnson was attached to Shazam! early in development and confirmed to portray the villain Black Adam in September 2014.
- The producers later decided to give the character his own film. Sztykiel was hired in October 2017.
- Collet-Serra joined in June 2019 for a planned release date of December 2021, but this timeline was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Additional casting took place over the next year, including for members of the Justice Society of America (JSA), and the script was rewritten by Haines and Noshirvani.
- Filming took place from April to August 2021 at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and also in Los Angeles.
- Black Adam is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 21, 2022, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
- Principal photography began on April 10, 2021, at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Lawrence Sher served as cinematographer.
- Dwayne Johnson said on June 20, 2021, that there were three weeks left of filming, and on July 15 he announced that he had completed his scenes.
- Filming then continued without Johnson for several weeks, with the production moving to Los Angeles, and had wrapped by August 15.
- Dwayne Johnson once asked his fans which character he should play, superhero Shazam or supervillain Black Adam. His fans chose Black Adam.
- Jordan Peele was originally offered the chance to direct the film when it was first announced in 2017, but Peele declined, saying “I’m not a fan of superhero movies and I’d hate to take that chance away from a director who is passionate about them.”
- The fourth live-action appearance of the Justice Society of America after Smallville (2001), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (2016) and Stargirl (2020).
- The eleventh film in the DC Extended Universe.
- Hawkman actor Aldis Hodge used Dwayne Johnson for gym motivation to improve his superhero physique during the workout & training prep for the film. He said, “The Rock is always throwing up videos on Instagram. Every time I see him I feel like he’s gained 100 more pounds. And I’ll just be up in the gym looking at myself with the little subtle flex and I’m not getting anything. Nothing is happening to me. It keeps me motivated because I’ll be in the gym taking a minute on a bike or something like that, and then I see him in the gym all swole and I’m like, ‘I must do better.'”
- There were plans for Black Adam to appear in The Suicide Squad (2021), but those plans were scrapped when James Gunn took over that movie.
- Cyclone’s costume is a combination of her normal DC Comics green costume and her purple ribbon costume from the “Kingdom Come” comic.
- Pierce Brosnan wore a motion-capture suit for his role as Doctor Fate.
- The first trailer was dropped on 8 June 2022, the 112th birthday of C.C. Beck, co-creator of Shazam and Black Adam.
- Hawkgirl and Stargirl were originally going to appear but were removed in favor of Cyclone.
- Eiza González was considered for the role of Hawkwoman before the character got cut from the script.
- Armie Hammer and Alexander Skarsgård were considered for the role of Hawkman.
- Liam Neeson, who had previously worked with director Jaume Collet-Serra on four films (Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015) and The Commuter (2018)), was considered for the role of Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate.
- Cyclone has a toy monkey in one scene. In the comics, she had as a sidekick a pet monkey named Frankie (named after “The Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum, who inspired Cyclone’s “Wicked Witch of the West” costume).
- Pierce Brosnan is the fifth James Bond actor to appear in a comic book adaptation, after Timothy Dalton (Flash Gordon (1980), The Rocketeer (1991), and Doom Patrol (2019)), George Lazenby (Batman Beyond (1999)), Sir Sean Connery (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)), and Daniel Craig (The Adventures of Tintin (2011)).
- Dacre Montgomery, Eli Goree, Jacob Elordi and Matthew Noszka were the top choices for Atom Smasher.
- Uli Latukefu starred in Young Rock (2021) as Dwayne Johnson’s 18-year-old counterpart.
- Atom Smasher’s costume is a combination of his normal DC Comics costume (red and blue, mask) and his Nuklon costume (full-body suit).
- Dwayne Johnson (Black Adam in this feature) had starred alongside Arnold Vosloo (Black Adam in Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010)) in “The Mummy” films, where both had played magically empowered antagonists.
- Isabela Merced, Leslie Grace, Thomasin McKenzie, Kathryn Newton, Haley Lu Richardson, Mackenzie Foy, Alexandra Shipp and Odessa Young were considered for the role of Cyclone.
- Before this DC movie, Pierce Brosnan was considered to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman (1989).
- This is the second comic-book feature for Dwayne Johnson (after Hercules (2014)), Marwan Kenzari (after The Old Guard (2020)) and Sarah Shahi (after Young Justice: Terrors (2011)).
- This film is majorly inspired by Geoff Johns’s “Justice Society of America” comic, where Adam is an anti-heroic character who joins and serves in the Justice Society.
- In July 2022, it was announced that Lorne Balfe, who previously wrote additional music for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy and composed the music for The Lego Batman Movie, would compose the score for the film
