DC's "Black Adam" (Oct. 21, 2022)

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According to a cinematographer who will be working on Black Adam, the upcoming supervillain origin film is a bit more conventional than last year's Academy Award-nominated Joker. That's likely a good thing, since it would be difficult to imagine Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson starring in an R-rated and bloddy Shazam! spinoff...but the world we're living in now apparently dictates that it's something that has to be said. The conversation came in an interview with Observer, who asked cinematographer Lawrence Sher to compare his upcoming Black Adam to Joker, a film he also shot. He assured fans that Black Adam will be a bit more conventional.

Black Adam, which sees Johnson playing an anti-hero with ties to the myhthology of Shazam!, is expected to go in front of cameras this summer. Sher will work with Jungle Cruise director Jaume Collet-Serra, who will apparently helm the movie.

“The good news is we don’t shoot until July. So I’m just getting into the research and development phase of discovering how it will look,” Sher said in the interview. “It’s super important to me because every time I set off to make a movie or a new project, I always feel as if I want it to be better than the last thing I worked on. I’m really excited about Black Adam because it’s different than Joker in that it’s slightly more traditional insomuch as it’s really drawing from the comics.”

Todd Phillips's Joker stepped away from the comics to create an entirely new take on the character's origin. While it owed certain elements and iconography to Joker stories that have appeared in the comics over the years, it was on the whole more an homage to '70s crime films like those from director Martin Scorsese.

Black Adam is expected to fill fans in on the backstory of Teth-Adam, who was entrusted with the power of Shazam long before Billy Batson, but who was corrupted by the power, turning on the Council of Wizards and dispensing a brutal idea of justice. In Shazam!, the wizard made a passing reference to a corrupted warrior generally understood to have been Black Adam, although he did not name the character.

Black Adam is expected to be in theaters in December of 2021, with a Shazam! sequel hitting the big screen about four months later, in April 2022. Black Adam will be written by Rampage scribe Adam Sztykiel.
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:patrice:do we trust the writer/ director?
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Jaume Collet-Serra is a decent director.

He is the director for the Rock's Jungle Cruise movie which is how he got the directing job for Black Adam.

He made the House of Wax remake that had Paris Hilton in it.
He has directed 4 of Liam Neeson action movies (Non-Stop, Unknown, The COmmuter and one other one).
He also directed The Shallows, the shark movie with Blake Lively.
And he directed Orphan.
 
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Black Adam Adds Cyclone To Its JSA Roster: EXCLUSIVE

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Cyclone is currently being cast and is the newest addition to the upcoming DC Comics’ adaptation of Black Adam for Warner Bros.
With the production start date for Black Adam merely months away, the antihero origin story should be shaping up its cast soon. Dwayne Johnson has long been signed on to play the DC Comics supervillain, but few other details have been dropped in the last year and fans are antsy to learn more.

The Rock himself managed to assuage some curiosity by revealing to Screen Rant that the Justice Society of America would be introduced in the film, confirming the report from Murphy’s Multiverse about appearances from Hawkman, Stargirl, Atom Smasher and and now Hawkgirl.

But now there comes a new twist in the Black Adam saga, and it seems that Cyclone is about to blow her way into the heart of the upcoming DC Comics endeavor. The Illuminerdi recently learned that a casting call has gone out for Cyclone as the lead female of the film, and her description points to her being every bit the cheerful and bubbly ball of joy that fans know her as.

HOW WILL CYCLONE FIT INTO BLACK ADAM’S STORY?
A relatively new addition to the DC universe, Cyclone in the comics is a 19-year old Harvard student and musical lover named Maxine Hunkel. The production is searching for an actress in her 20s to portray the role, but that still fits with the likelihood of her being a college student in the film. If her last name sounds familiar, it’s because she’s a legacy character and the granddaughter of the Golden Age’s Red Tornado, Abigail “Ma” Hunkel.

Years after being experimented on by the evil T.O. Morrow, who created the second Red Tornado, Maxine begins to develop her own aerokinetic powers. She becomes a Justice Society of America recruit and takes on the mantle of Cyclone, but her story has otherwise not been fully developed yet.

But how does that make her a fit for Black Adam, considering that it’s meant to be an origin story for the corrupted ancient Egyptian? Well, given the presence of the older and also ancient Hawkman, it sounds like the film might show a passing of the torch from the old guard of the JSA to the new. Perhaps the Hawks have been battling Teth-Adam since his hostile takeover of Kahndaq (as depicted in Geoff Johns’ “Black Reign” arc) while the younger generation like Atom Smasher and Cyclone are just getting their feet wet.

Speaking of Atom Smasher: he is often depicted as a love interest for Stargirl, which is why it makes sense for them both to appear in Black Adam. But as of our latest intel, he is being described as a love interest for Cyclone. Either this means a tangled love triangle, made more tragic by the fact that Stargirl is one of Maxine’s heroes, or it suggests that Maxine is replacing the star-spangled superheroine as the movie’s female lead.

DC is notoriously wary about allowing more than one version of a character to exist in live-action at any given time, so that’s an unfortunate possibility. It’s a miracle TV Flash and movie Flash ever met, and one wonders if that would ever have come to pass had the latter’s solo film not been delayed so long. Courtney Whitmore coming to the CW’s Stargirl only months before she appears in Black Adam may be too much for the multiverse to handle, in the minds of executives anyway.
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