In completely unnecessary black-and-white!
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>"Black Adam’s real name is Teth-Adam," Johnson explains. “And the 'black' in Black Adam refers to his soul.”
>Black Adam’s turn to the dark side will also provide more of a rationale for his mercilessness, if not a justification for it. It’s all connected to something unspeakable that happened to his family when they were enslaved in that long-ago era. “That’s something that’s universal, that everyone can relate to,” Johnson says. “It doesn’t matter your color, or religion, or what your bank account says, or wherever you live, or what your job is. I mean, everybody can relate to family and wanting to do all you can to protect that family. And when your family’s ripped away from you... it changes the person.”
>Comics are full of heroes who lose loved ones to wrongdoers, only to seek solace in saving others from similar fates. Black Adam is just built differently. He’s more aligned with the vengeance-seeking antiheroes of the ’70s, whose brutality start to overtake that of their enemies: Think Charles Bronson in DEATH WISH, Pam Grier in FOXY BROWN, and Meiko Kaji in LADY SNOWBLOOW — or one particular cop who simply harbored extreme contempt for punks.
>“I talked early on about how there were many similar aspects between Black Adam and Dirty Harry, which is a movie that broke rules in the ’70s,” director Jaume Collet-Serra says. “The systems were corrupt, so you had criminals taking advantage. You needed a cop that would cut through the bullshit, and basically do what needs to be done. That’s very much in line with Black Adam and his way of thinking. I think that’s appealing to pretty much everybody. Everybody knows how the world sometimes is not fair, and you need people that break the rules to even out the playing field."
>The world doesn’t see Black Adam that way — at least, not when he is first awakened and unleashed on the earth as a terrifying, unstoppable supernatural force. To everyone else, he looks like a monster. And he basically is.
>“His view of this world that he is brought back into — the current world, now, after 5,000 years — is very myopic,” Johnson says. “There’s no room or space for him being wrong. There’s no room or space for anyone else’s opinion. There’s only room and space for him justifying anything that he does because of his pain. And he pushes and pushes and pushes and does not see any other way. It’s very black and white.”
>Eventually, all that pushing will lead him to others who are willing to push back.
>The film introduces moviegoers to the Justice Society of America — which is separate from the similar-sounding (and now more widely known) Justice League. The JSA started uniting heroes about two decades before and features the likes of Dr. Fate and Hawkman, who turn up in BLACK ADAM, played by Pierce Brosnan and Aldis Hodge.
>In the comics, Hawkman flies with wings forged from extraterrestrial metal. He also dates back to ancient Egyptian times, reincarnating ceaselessly over the centuries while passing on the mantle of the flying hero. In the present day, he is leader of the JSA and leads the others in standing up to Black Adam’s aggression. Collet-Serra notes that some DC writers have forged a connection between the two over the years that dates back several millennia. But the movie isn’t going to get tangled up with that.
>“In the comics, there are clear references of like, ‘Hey, I saw you 5,000 years ago. You remember me?’ We’re not doing that,” the filmmaker says. “It would be too confusing. Obviously, Hawkman reincarnates, so how many times do you need to reincarnate and still remember? All these rules are something you don’t want to set until those characters are really established.”
>Hodge’s Hawkman is repulsed by Black Adam’s tactics but shares some of his stubbornness. “He is a very driven character that knows that he’s on the right side,” Collet-Serra says. “Definitely, he’s a leader. He wants to bring this team together, and bring a certain stability to the world. Hawkman has a very strong sense of what’s right or wrong, and Black Adam challenges that.”
How do you frick up Hawkman that badly?
I'm sorry they made you wear that shitty helmet buddy...
It's CGI.
>that shitty helmet
It looks really good though
It looks fricking awful and impractical as frick
So Hawkman.
>awful
How?
>impractical
Come on man
Wait were you talking about Hawkman I thought you were talking about Fate’s helmet. Cause Fates helmet looks awful, Hawkmans helmet is ok but the feathers are way to odd looking
Wow. What a missed opportunity. This director sounds like a puntz.
>Hawkman
take everything fun about Hawkman and Chuck it out and replace it with Mr. Terrific
So Fate is either going to be the secret bad guy or murdered isn’t he… man frick this movie
That’s not Maxine though, while she had a superhero family her thing was never about living up to a legacy as her family was supportive and down to earth. Her thing is trying to connect with people
So Atom Smasher but with Damages personality?
Man they really fricked up the JSA
No one attached to this gives a single frick about the JSA.
At all.
Not the casting crew, not the costume designers, not the writers, not the Director. SuperRock needed a team to fite, the JLA is a dumpster fire, and these guys involve enough CGI to keep some Poos employed and happy.
>He thinks he’s on the right side, but he has a lot more questions
there is nothing damage about this. That is Atom Smasher entire conflict in the 2001 JSA run
I am sure Cyclone is still a JSA fangirl
All of these plot elements are rehashes of stuff from Justice League.
So you had the perfect character to link Adam back to his old life thousands of years ago, and yet decide not to do anything with him? How fricking stupid do you have to be here?
I'm confused. Does movie Hawkman not reincarnate at all, or has he just never encountered Black Adam in his past lives?
No they aren’t doing the Past Lives thing it seems now he’s just some rich entrepreneur/archeologist
I yelled at the Rock on twitter about shirtless Hawkman and some nerd replied telling me they couldn’t do a flight harness if he was shirtless. Work harder hollywood
Sounds like they’re leaving the door open for it though
They probably know the take is so bad that they are basically making him an OC so they can recast in a different movie later on
Aka we wanted to make sure nobody would say he was a white guy in a prior life or ever could be one
>Doctor Fate is known for his distinctive golden helmet and supernatural abilities, but Collet-Serra says this Black Adam opponent’s other superpower is raw charisma. While Fate can’t overpower Black Adam in the strength department, he might be able to reason with him.
>“You need a special actor to play, basically, a legend,” the filmmaker explains. “Doctor Fate is a very powerful being, so you need someone like Pierce who can play powerful without it being overly done. He can do it in a very subtle way. I mean, he’s one of the coolest people in the world—he was James Bond! But as a person, he’s magnetic, so warm with such gravitas.”
He’s obviously going to die so they can bring in the sandBlack person or Inza. Frick this.
>While Hawkman and Dr. Fate are the veterans, the JSA also includes some relative novices. “With Cyclone and Atom Smasher, they’re also very beloved characters, but we’ve gone the younger route in this,” Collet-Serra says.
>Quintessa Swindell’s Cyclone hails from a family of heroes and now has to live up to that legacy, overshadowed by a grandmother who was known as Red Tornado. “It's always fun when you introduce characters in a team that have never really seen combat before, so the audience gets to experience it through those fresh eyes,” Collet-Serra says. “And the same with Atom Smasher, even though Atom Smasher is a bit more experienced. They’re close in age, and together they have a bond: We are the new ones here, let’s not screw it up.”
>Cyclone and Atom-Smasher
>Very beloved characters
Their devoted fanbase could be fit on a bus.
>Their devoted fanbase could be fit on a bus.
cab*
So wait are they actually turning Ma Hunkel into a Mammy? holy shit who the frick would’ve approved that
Buddy thinking about a black Abigail Hunkel is making me rock hard.
The actress is biracial, so Ma Hunkel could easily still have been white.
It doesn't really matter, though. It sounds like they are making Cyclone's grandmother a bonafide windcasting superhero, not just a middle-aged mother with a bucket on her head and a mean right hook.
I hope your right but the comic tie in makes it seem like they didn’t even try
>Noah Centineo’s Atom Smasher can make himself gigantic, but also feels crushed by the expectations that come with his powers. “He’s still not sure that this is what he wants to do,” Collet-Serra says. “He thinks this is what he wants to do. He thinks he’s on the right side, but he has a lot more questions.”
>That seems to be a running theme in Black Adam. The more certain you are that you’re right, the less likely that’s true.
Sounds lame.
Yet another movie where the team is worthless, and everything hinges on "Superman" saving or dooming the world.
The JSA reduced to a discount-bin Avengers.
Won't even get into Cyclone's casting and her miserable costume, or how Brosnan looks ridiculous in costume.
And I've attained Rock Weariness.
>how Brosnan looks ridiculous in costume.
This is where you fricked up.
Brosnan looks great in his civvy clothes, he's always dapper.
Hanging from wires kicking his legs in that suit, he looks Power Rangers ridiculous.
This honestly sounds awful, it sounds like the director hates the source material and the characters in general and just wants to do his own thing
Is there an actual "real" villain in this? The Steppenwolf after "Superman" gets done batting around the not-Avengers?
Sabbac.
Oh that's right. At least he isn't made out of Xacto blades.
So fat Dr. Strange with a helmet
Kid Giant-Man
Some dude flying around in Gadot's WW 84 costume
And not-Storm looking like a pallette-swapped Scarlet Witch.
Vs. hambone Teh Rock playing himself (as usual) as even-edgier-Superman.
I retract the Scarlet Witch comparison. Even her streaming Halloween get-up wasn't that bad and cheap looking.
What thought processes created this costume? It has black pants (not tights, pants) and black boots. it is an inexplicable mish-mash of design elements and colors.
This was either the costume designers first job or they where drunk when they designed it
She looks like the bad-girl in a streaming series adaptation of Sky High or something.
It definitely has that Disney Channel or Nickelodeon tv series look vibe
I can see where they wanted a costume that 7 yr old girls could wear to Halloween, but no girls will go see this thing.
It WILL make hundreds of millions tho, maybe even three of them.
See I just cant see it succeeding, it looks bad, the leaks make it sound awful (it apparently scored about the same as Batgirl), and Rock movies aren’t surefire hits anymore as his last few movies bombed
This movie got made simply because Dwayne Johnson had enough pull to make it happen.
Some WB Exec probably thought it was the next Deadpool (even though it patently has nothing in common except an actor's enthusiasm).
Really it's amazing that Shazam! is getting a spin-off AND a sequel.
isn't there a rumor or hint/plan that dc/wb is planning on making black adam dc's 'thanos event'?
WB is it's own Thanos Event, they are dusting movies as we speak.
lol. based. pretty sure the rock is either going to force dc/wb into making his own dcuniverse or the movie bombs and he bounces to make another rock-franchise.
He really shoulda went for Hercules in Thor L&T instead.
Hawkman is Wonder Woman, the antiquities hero, he's even visually like her 84 get up
Fate is the old Batman leader
Atom is the reluctant Cyborg
Cyclone is the enthusiastic but unsure Flash
They have to fite then recruit Super-Adam, because only he can stop teh Demons from winning.
Everyone has seen this movie, and adding The Rock isn't going to generate enough enthusiasm I don't think for reheated leftovers.