After mendacity dormant for almost a yr, the DCEU has stormed again into popular culture consciousness. At this yr’s San Diego Comedian-Con, Warner Bros. took benefit of their prime Corridor H actual property and introduced out the forged and administrators of two of 2022’s most extremely anticipated films of the yr.
The primary one up is Shazam! Fury of the Gods. A sequel to the 2019 hit, Shazam 2 brings again Zachary Levi as everybody’s favourite teenage superhero not named Miles Morales or Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan, Billy Batson. He’s joined by his foster brothers and sisters, who, in the event you bear in mind, became their very own variations of Shazam on the finish of that movie.
This time round, they’re preventing the daughters of Atlas, performed by revered thespian and Quick & Livid badass Helen Mirren and former Charlie’s Angel Lucy Liu. Along with the standard lighting blasts and scenes of mass destruction, there seems to be an enormous dragon within the combine as effectively, which is all the time welcome in a fantasy blockbuster. Fury of the Gods hits theaters on December 21, 2022.
Longtime Shazam nemesis Black Adam can be getting his personal film, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson taking up the titular superhero. Or is it supervillain? We’re nonetheless undecided, because the advertising and marketing division at Warner Bros. goes out of its technique to paint the comedian ebook character as one thing of an enigma. Is he good? Evil? Someplace in-between? Con attendees received a one minute sneak peek, which was (in fact) additionally launched to everybody else on the planet.
Alongside the Rock’s anti-hero, the movie additionally showcases the Justice Society of America, a superhero group kind the Forties that’s represented by Hawkman, Atom Smasher, Cyclone, and Dr. Destiny, performed by former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan. Black Adam smashes his method into theaters on October 21, 2022.
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