>Warner Bros Pictures' upcoming BLACK ADAM, starring Dwayne Johnson as the eponymous anti-hero, is casting for three stahlwart comic book characters: Hawkman, Stargirl & Atom-Smasher, members of the Justice Society of America, a team that has often butted heads with Johnson's character.
>A Middle-Eastern actor in the 30-39 age range and with a physique to match Johnson's is being sought for immortal winged warrior Carter Hall AKA Hawkman, who will serve as Black Adam's main rival, while a couple in the 20-29 age range is sought for starcrossed lovers Stargirl, a teenager armed with a staff powered by cosmic energy; and Atom-Smasher, an atomic-powered anti-hero who is super-strong and can grow as tall as a building.
>This indicates the script, penned by Adam Sztykiel - Who previously wrote the Johnson vehicle RAMPAGE - is borrowing concepts from the comics "Black Reign" storyline, in which Black Adam deposes the dictator ruling over his home country of Khandaq and seizes power for himself, putting him on a collision course with the JSA and the international authorities.
>BLACK ADAM currently has no director attached, and is eyeing a possible 2022 release date.
I know Black Adam ran with the JSA before and isn't what you might call a conventional villain, but cmon. This is just catering to Dwayne so he doesn't have to play a bad guy. Black Adam is like Sinestro, and I wouldn't call him an anti-hero.
That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing Hawkman, Star Girl, and Atom Smasher.
You know for a "dead" universe it's amazing how we know so much more about DC's upcoming movies than Marvels
Daniel Turner
>the script, penned by Adam Sztykiel - Who previously wrote the Johnson vehicle RAMPAGE So DC is just allergic to good movies
Alexander Ross
Black Adam is the definition of an anti-hero.
Aaron Rodriguez
It was never a Yea Forums meme. He's been signed on to play Black Adam since 2009
Joseph Lopez
>Johns pushing his sister in every media adaption to maximize royalty bucks gross really
Nolan White
It's not dead because they keep churning out shitty movies
It's dead because no one wants to watch them
Camden Wilson
He's more of an anti-villain, don't get the two confused. This is still an asshole who rules Kandaq with an iron fist, and will try and rule the world if he thinks he can get away with it. He's more akin to Doctor Doom and Sinestro than the likes of Jason Todd.
I've been here since '07 though. I remember the pic of Dwayne with Black Adam ears.
Christian Jenkins
Marredvulva much?
Jonathan Hernandez
Well that doesn't make any sense at all
Cooper Ortiz
>AQ gets $1bil >”no one wants to watch them”
Whew lad, the mouse AIDS must cause delusion
Connor Reed
You can find clips of him talking about Black Adam. I don't know why he's such a huge fan of Black Adam though
Asher Rogers
Modern Black Adam literally is an anti-hero and the main reason for his current day popularity.
Hunter Thomas
I can't beleive they were able to announce something to actually make me wanna see this movie but fuck me I really wanna see this movie now, I wanna see Atom Smasher just fucking bulldoze his was thru a fight scene
Charles Perry
>This is still an asshole who rules Kandaq with an iron fist
Unlike Dr. Doom, Kahndaq is not a dictatorship, his people actually love him and he isn't oppressing anyone. He's an anti-hero because he gives no fucks and thinks might makes it right when dealing with threats to his people, because occasionally he will join forces with bad guys.
You care to elaborate more? Because last time I checked >Tried to kill Billy Batson upon his release >Killed a child to earn his place as champion originally >Provides asylum for supervillains during Doomsday Clock, and attacks the U.N. while the Justice League is busy on Mars with Osterman >Still rules Kandaq with an iron fist, and helped Sinestro on occasion Yeah because they worship him as a damn god, and he smites any and all crime that occurs.
Sounds so weird but also amazing. The people's champ vs chuck with lightning
Levi Gonzalez
Why do you think Black Adam got his own movie instead of being introduced in Shazam as originally intended?
The Rock doesn't play bad guys. Black Adam will be a misunderstood hero for sure.
Nathaniel Hughes
His first movie role was the bad guy.
Mason Clark
>Provides asylum for supervillains during Doomsday Clock
His borders were open to all metahumans.
Cooper Powell
Fighting with my Family. Which was unironically amazing
Mason Martin
He's just like, straight up a protagonist for most of Johns JSA
Jace Sullivan
I found this place in late 2007, so OK.
James Russell
Not surprised. The silver age hawks don't make a lot of sense(why are alien cops running around bare chested and using archaic weapons like barbarians?) and when you strip away that and make them plain space cops like Hawkworld, they're not really the anything like the classic Hawkman and Hawkgirl you want them them to be. And you get a lot more stories out of the golden age hawks with their reincarnation stuff. Take Gentleman Ghost for example. To the golden age hawks he's the ghost of a highwayman robber they busted in one of their previous lives. What is he to the silver age hawks? And the Golden Age Hawk mythos has been the primary one since Johns resurrected it in JSA following Hawkworld and Zero hour crashing the thanagarian hawks and the entire franchise for years. Golden age hawkman has been in more recent adaptations than the silver age versions. The biggest use of the silver age versions came from JLU having a the thanagarian Hawkgirl and they still had Egyptian reincarnation hawkman in their final season. The last time they tried to push the thanagarian mythos for hawkman in the comics was the new 52 and they recently reverted to the Carter Hall reincarnation version.
Short version: the only reason to go with the Thanagarian Hawks is "muh silver age"
Hunter Cooper
It was a different time.
And then he literally got a spinoff where it was revealed the character was a misunderstood hero.
DCs endgame will be the reformation of the JSA in place of the Justice League. It makes sense, and if they really do Flashpoint the timeline, it'll be a good way to have your new team in the following decade.
Brandon Mitchell
I hope this also leads to a Hawkman solo movie.
Jordan Morgan
>We will never get a Teen Titans movie
Feels bad man.
Liam Hughes
Honestly, how the fuck haven't they done one yet? Especially considering how absurdly popular their cartoons are.
Ayden Martin
>Flashpoint No, they'll get the guy who did Doctor Manhattan in the Watchmen movie to come back and do a Doomsday Clock movie.
Jordan Wilson
That's the plan.
Juan Phillips
>The Rock and Cavill have the same agent >Production has finally started on Black Adam >Superman appears in Shazam Guys, could it actually happen?
Still, what lame-ass version of the Justice Society is this? Hawkman hasn't been a regular member of the team since before Zero Hour, Stargirl is a second tier member at best, and Atom Smasher barely rates. This is JSA not Infinity Inc.
Xavier Nguyen
If people get amped about Superman showing up it might, Cahill wants a mos2 (If it happens let's hope it gets a new director)
Michael Turner
Fucking pleb.
Luke Murphy
And?
Wyatt Lewis
His interactions with Sinestro are spot on and totally golden.
Christian Hernandez
I am aware. But if you read the character summaries, they're going for the awkward Kitty-Colossus style romance between him and Courtney, not the bromance that made Atom Smasher a murderer.
Than you, Hawkworld is the only good story with the Thanagarian Hawks. Even then Hawkworld isn't enough to build a franchise on.
Hudson Flores
What are you talking about? Hawkman fucking lead them.
David Sullivan
>The Rock and Cavill have the same agent Are you sure? I believe Henry Cavill’s agent is The Rock’s Ex-Wife
Ethan Morris
Hawkman and Black adam being rivals is a cool idea, what with the Egypt conection. Has this happened before?
Jackson Martinez
My dick supports this casting.
Christian Lopez
Dany Garcia is still the Rocks agent even though they divorced. How they can still be so amicable makes little sense to me Unless the rumors are true and the Rock is a closet case
Alexander Barnes
Pretty sure this is a sort of testing the waters for that.
Dylan Howard
I presume they want a middle eastern actor for Carter so they can have him play Kufhu in flashbacks and not have it look awkward and out of place as fuck like it does in stuff like LoT.
Jeremiah Davis
>that spoiler He absolutely is. His muscles and hanging out with attractive attractresses is a huge cope.
Isaac Perry
Did we both read the same comics? Goyer and Johns had that Return of Hawkman arc, but he barely stuck around and definitely didn't lead the team. He'd show up for one arc then disappear for three.
I didn't mean to insult Hawkworld itself, but most people who want Hawkman want him bare chested in a harness with realistic wings swinging a mace, not in a black suit with metal wings and a laser rifle. That's why Hawkworld wasn't a good foundation which led to them trying to fuse golden age Hawkman and Hawkworld Hawkman in zero hour together thus trainwrecking Hawkman as a franchise. It's not hard to see why it failed and ultimately led to a situation where the Golden Age version has reasserted himself over his silver age replacement.
any inflation that doesn't end in violent explosion can get fucked imo
Grayson Brooks
Sounds wiggy
Ryder White
bump
Christian Brown
Why are they even making a Black Adam movie? Why not just wait until Shazam 2?
Ayden Lopez
Would it work?
James Moore
Because The Rock is a headliner guaranteed to get asses in seats
Jack Cruz
Of course we won't. They would need Cyborg for that. The only way it's happening is if Damian gets introduced and we get the lame one with him and Beetle in it. We'll never have a good live action Starfire.
>Because The Rock is a headliner guaranteed to get asses in seats* . . *Faster, Doom, Snitch, Planet 51, Gridiron Gang, Pain and Gain, Walking Tall, Baywatch, Tooth Fairy, The Rundown, Be Cool, Hercules and Race to Witch Mountain not valid with this offer.
Basically the DC version of Channing Tatum as Gambit.
Angel Ward
I guess it makes sense to use Egyptian Hawkman since they can just say they used to know each other before he died and reincarnated and such.
Anthony Stewart
>This is just catering to Dwayne so he doesn't have to play a bad guy. wasn't he the bad guy in like 3 of his most well known movies? (mummy returns, doom and the fast & the furious movie his character debuted in)
Hunter Green
>not doing this when he still had hair
Dominic Lewis
>why are alien cops running around bare chested and using archaic weapons like barbarians?
because they're John Carter of Mars style aliens? Anyway, they can always go the Ancient Aliens route and say Thanagarians inspired the hawks of Egypt
Nathaniel Richardson
If they just establish that reincarnation doesn't mean getting the same body, they would get around this
Luis Powell
Now this is a smart thing to do. Based DC is learning.
Jacob Cox
If Black Adam won't be too villainous, they will need someone to team up against. Maybe they could use Vandal Savage, as it turns out LOT was a test run for him as well as the Hawks, and keep him as a recurring villain who could maybe salvage Eisenlex if they want.
Jonathan Jackson
The 'villain' is going to be the JSA trying to stop him. A Hawkman vs Black Adam fight will be sick.
Eli Martinez
JSA was the villain when it invaded Kahndaq so I'm okay with this.
Luke Gonzalez
But the JSA need to live.
Liam Mitchell
No, it has to be broken.
Ayden Phillips
Who said they're going to die?
Bentley Peterson
So there's no DCEU anymore but there's an Aquaman shared universe and a Shazam shared universe?
>Anyway, they can always go the Ancient Aliens route and say Thanagarians inspired the hawks of Egypt Yup this is ecactly what they did in the by having a Thanagarian ship crash in ancient egypt which is where Khufu got his Nth metal. Thanagar itself as part of the DCU cosmic setting is the only real contribution of the Silver Age hawks, and easily salvagable and graftable on to the Golden Age version.
William Nelson
They can fail in their initial attempt, retreat and regroup with Shazam for the sequel Shazam vs Black Adam.
Dominic Hughes
Not sure why he feels the need to do this. They're literally casting all these characters for his Stargirl show.
Zachary Gray
Its still the same universe they just aren't sharing lead actors anymore. They don't want to do teamups. I'm fine with no Justice League 2 now if it means Justice League Elseworld film later.
Carson Edwards
>There will be a Stargirl DC Universe series but also a different Stargirl in the DCEU Bravo Johns
Grayson Cooper
She's already been cast for the series. Will there be another for a film?
