YO, today's issue to give you a heavyweight! That's a new work played by Dwayne Johnson! DC's "Black Adam" Introduction and Trailer Analysis!
In 2020, when DC Fandome was prosperous, there were many trailers and DC future plans, including a special trailer, which particularly attracted me, that is, "Black Adam".
Back in 2007, Dwayne Johnson had a strong interest in and responded positively to Adam Black's film project, but after the project stalled, Warner and DC began the DC expansion of the universe.
After the release of "Superman: Body of Steel", Dwayne Johnson revealed that he still had a high interest in the role of Black Adam, and finally on April 10 this year, Dwayne Johnson began his more than three-month shooting.
So, in addition to Dwayne Johnson playing Black Adam does not need special muscle expansion clothing, how the role of Black Adam exists in DC, and what kind of intimate relationship he has with Shazam, today's issue will talk to you about Black Adam's past and present life, and the direction of the movie's brain hole after that.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > early settings for Adam Black</h1>
In the ancient comics, Black Adam is set in ancient Egypt, where the old wizard Shazam wants to find a warrior with the same noble sentiments as him to inherit his divine power to protect humanity and fight against the evil dark forces.
Ironically, the one chosen by the old wizard Shazam, Tess Adam, became the beginning of a nightmare.
Theis Adam was originally an Egyptian, and then selected by the old wizard Shazam, the result of the powerful ability did not give due responsibility, but released the hidden ambition and greed of Thesis Adam, super divine power corroded his mind, he felt that since Lao Tzu was the first in the world, why should he help others and let the world run in its own way?
So here we can also see that Black Adam is actually Shazam's predecessor, and he is the first person to be given shazam divine power in the true sense.
So Theis Adam overthrew and killed the Egyptian pharaoh and took the throne himself.
The old wizard Shazam regretted it and changed the previous legal name of Tess Adam from "God David Adam" to "Black Adam", although the old wizard Shazam could not kill Black Adam, but he could banish Black Adam from the earth, and when Black Adam left, he also put down harsh words like many villains, saying "I will come back again" and so on.
Sure enough, Black Adam flew back to Earth in 5,000 years, but by this time Earth already had a new heir chosen by the old wizard Shazam, who was also the most primitive four in the Shazam family, namely Billy, Mary, Freddy, and Billy's uncle.
Members of the Shazam family all possess solomon, hercules, atlases, Zeus, Achilles, and Merury.
So was the Black Adam 5,000 years ago also derived divine power from these Greek gods? Non-also, at that time the ancient manga did not mention, but later in the 78 years of the manga clearly gave black Adam the definition of divine power from the Egyptian gods.
These are shushu's endurance, The power of Hershef, the power of Amon Amon, the wisdom of Zehuti Zehuti, the speed of Amp Anpu, and the courage of Maihan Menthu. You see, there are also six gods.
In short, after Black Adam arrived on Earth, he quickly beat the three Shazams to the ground, but the ancient comic you know is relatively young and direct, under the seduction strategy of Uncle Shazam, he deliberately said the wrong word Shazam to guide Black Adam to teach him to pronounce Shazam correctly, so that Black Adam reads Shazam and changes back to the original. Although the manga followed a similar approach later, it would be much more natural.
After Black Adam lost the blessing of divine power, 5,000 years of time instantly eroded his body, and Tes Adam instantly turned into a mummified corpse.
The Shazam family has won!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="179" > Adam Black under DC</h1>
In the 1970s, DC Comics officially owned the license of Black Adam, and in the 28th issue of Shazam, DC expanded the story after Black Adam.
Dr. Shivana, a mad scientist, resurrected Black Adam with a machine, and Black Adam went to find Billy again, and Billy also questioned a bug for the audience at this time - there was no Greek mythology 5,000 years ago, how did your ability come about? This is also the black Adam divine power I mentioned earlier from the ancient Egyptian gods.
This time Black Adam and Shazam insisted on more battles, but still as in the oldest comic book setting, Black Adam was induced to say Shazam and then turned back into a mortal.
In the following comics, Billy's story was rewritten from the origin, so Billy's nemesis, Black Adam, naturally had a new origin story.
In that comic, Billy's parents are killed in a car accident, where his distant uncle is Actually Dr. Shivana, who inherits billy's parents' legacy, and he invests the money in scientific experiments and brings Black Adam back to Earth from his first interstellar exile.
It is also in this version that Black Adam's shape becomes stronger, and the whole body is more like the black clothing version of Shazam.
Then came the '90s, where Black Adam's personality underwent several major changes, among which I think maybe a little bit related to black Adam's films was a man named Theo Adam, who went to archaeology with Billy's parents, and the source of funding for archaeology happened to be sponsored by Dr. Shivana's foundation.
They then enter the tomb of a son of Ramses II in ancient Egypt, which reads "Khem-Adam", and in the process Theo Adam was so fascinated by the hallows of a scarab that the greedy Theo Adam killed Billy's parents and wanted to take all the treasures for himself.
And because of the Beetle Hallows, Theo Adam became Black Adam.
It turned out that thousands of years ago, the old wizard Shazam did not expel Black Adam from the earth after choosing the wrong heir, that is, Black Adam, but sealed him until Theo Adam found the Beetle Hallow that sealed Black Adam when he dug the grave.
In the following versions of Theo Adam being possessed by Black Adam, the comics gradually distinguish the personalities of the two, and in the JAS series, that is, the American Justice Association, and in the court judgment, it is also determined that Theo Adam and Black Adam are two people, but they happen to use the same body, that is, Black Adam became an anti-hero persona. This is also the prototype of Black Adam's anti-hero design.
Black Adam's people were set up during this period, and they also worked with members of the American Justice Association to save the world and so on.
I don't know if the movie will have this setting at that time, to use it to make the Dwayne Johnson's character tend to be positive, and so on will preview the animation analysis and then start talking.
Next is the story line of the new 52 entire DC reboot, and Black Adam has a deeper origin story, this time even the background has been changed, not in Egypt, but in a Kandak similar to the Middle East. This time DC's "Black Adam" movie is based on the storyline of the new 52.
About four or five thousand years ago, Kandak was still a slave era, a period of war and people's lives full of barbarism and cruelty.
At that time, there was a skinny little slave boy who was tortured by daily abuse every day, and was about to be killed, and his uncle appeared to save his nephew and smashed the overseer's head directly with a stone.
The uncle hurried to help his nephew, but at this moment he was careless, and suddenly another overseer appeared in the back and stabbed the uncle in the abdomen with a spear.
The two help each other into a cave, the badly injured uncle can only wait for the tragic death, the uncle told the nephew to run, but the nephew did not want to leave the uncle who saved his life, the nephew had to accompany the uncle to live and die together.
Just then, a bolt of lightning appeared, and the two were simultaneously teleported to the hall of seven old mages, which was the Rock of Eternity.
The seven old mages, touched by their nephew's kindness, prepared to choose him to gain the power of Shazam to rescue the people of Kandak from fire and water.
The nephew did not care about what to save Cangsheng, but begged the mages to save his uncle, and when the mage told the nephew the secret, the uncle and nephew both shouted "Shazam" at the same time, and the two were healed and returned to Kandak.
At this time, the nephew thought of the mission given to him by the mages to rescue the life of Kandak, and the nephew began to imagine his own goodness and justice, and he wanted to use this Shazam divine power to impress all slave owners and evil people, so that everyone could work together to create a new era in Kandak.
Just when the nephew was about to shout out Shazam, the uncle who had been standing behind him and had not said a word covered his nephew's mouth with his hand, which was not simply not to let the nephew say the word Shazam, but directly covered his nephew who had just saved.
The uncle's name was Adam.
Adam needed this Shazam divine power, what moved the slave owners, what worked together to build the new Kandak, it was all a fart! Adam's wife, daughter, brothers and sisters all died at the hands of the slave owners, how could these people be cheapened! What Adam needed was revenge!
“SHAZAM”！ Adam shouted the word Shazam, usurped Shazam's power, and transformed into Black Adam!
After that, Black Adam is not satisfied, he needs more divine power to save the world that has disappointed him.
The place where the mages are located in the Eternal Rock is the place where Black Adam has always wanted to find the source of his magic, but after that, Black Adam is still sealed by the old mages.
The plot is set in Shazam's 2011 reboot comic, where Billy learns some of The Black Adam's origin story, but the main plot is still placed in the modern Shazam and Black Adam duels, black Adam is released, naturally with the help of Dr. Shivana.
Good! So what kind of existence is the movie version of "Black Adam"?! Next, let's try to analyze the current limited "Black Adam" material and see how much good material can be dug up!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="180" > the "Black Adam" trailer analysis</h1>
Before I wrote this, there was no official live-action version of "Black Adam" trailer, so it is likely that soon after the release, the official trailer will be announced in DC fandome to punch the face.
Let's first look at the title animation of Black Adam, Black Adam's fat lightning design is the same as Shazam, and Black Adam's clothes also have the same lightning on the chest.
But the detail is that lightning in this title is from the bottom up, which seems to imply that The Black Adam's divine power is summoned in the darkness, in contrast to the top-down divine power of Shazam.
In a video of Black Adam by Dwayne Johnson, he stands in a place that resembles a giant ancient abandoned temple, which is usually reminiscent of offering or sealing some coffin magic artifact or the like, and perhaps it was here that Black Adam escaped.
Dwayne Johnson stood there, telling the audience from his own perspective that he had waited a long time for this moment, and that this was the story of the man who was going to change everything, and this was the story of Black Adam.
As we said earlier, Dwayne Johnson from the beginning of contact with Black Adam to 2022 when the film is finally released, it has been more than a decade, in this video Dwayne Johnson also said that the role of Black Adam he has loved enough to carve into his DNA.
This video of Dwayne Johnson is actually more than 10 minutes long, answering a lot of popular questions, in this will not elaborate on the analysis, it is worth noting that some fans mentioned that if other superheroes join, Dwayne Johnson most want who and why.
Dwayne Johnson first mentions Wonder Woman because he and Gayle Gadot are very good friends in private, followed by Superman, who hopes to see Superman and Black Adam on the big screen, and they may or may not be friends.
emmmm... Interestingly, I don't know if "Black Adam" will have a surprise superhero cameo.
Also in the interview, Dwayne Johnson revealed that he appreciates the tragic background story of the character of Black Adam, which may indicate that the story of the "Black Adam" movie will make Black Adam an anti-hero setting.
Let's look at the anime trailer, the opening screen shows the former Kandak, from the narration of Dwayne Johnson we learn that Kandak is a melting pot, money, power and magic are gathered in this ancient city, but most of the people are slaves and have nothing.
At this time we see the man in the appearance of Dashi Johnson bound by a large chain, and the overseers and soldiers next to him are holding whip weapons and preparing to torture Adam.
Adam believes that Kandak needs a hero to save the oppressed people, when the picture goes black and a blind lightning bolt breaks through the sky, and Adam transforms into a black Adam.
As the narrator says here, it turned out that they found me.
They were referring to the seven mages who had begun in the Rock of Eternity, who had given Adam Shazam the power to free the people of Kandak, but it seemed that the process did not go well.
In the movie "Thunder Shazam", we also know from the dialogue between the old mage and Billy that Black Adam is the heir they have been looking for, but he released the seven deadly sins to endanger the life, and then sealed.
In the anime trailer, the graphics and narration also mention that Heiya did what he thought he should do.
What should be done here may be that Black Adam made some mistakes that the mages felt were not worthy of divine power in order to save the people of Kandak.
If the Seven Deadly Sins were sealed in the Rock of Eternity, then perhaps the same was true of Adam The Great, but Dr. Shivana had not yet discovered that, judging from the structure of the building, it seemed that the temple where Johnson spoke in front of him was also somewhat similar to the Rock of Eternity.
But it is more likely that the place where Black Adam was sealed was in the abandoned ancient Kandak, and in the anime trailer, the narrator says that after five thousand years, I am free.
Black Adam turned out to be in the background of the long-dilapidated and abandoned Kandak, in the picture we can also see the scene of the old wizard Shazam and Black Adam fighting, the background pillar also looks like in Kandak, so it is more likely that Black Adam was sealed in his hometown, and then Dr. Shivana got the relevant consultation, went to the abandoned Kandak, and released the sealed Black Adam.
There is also a close-up of Black Adam, and the purple gem on the right side of Black Adam is quite eye-catching.
This purple gemstone may be the gem world gem world in DC, where there are many color fields in the gem world, in a multi-faceted chaotic state, and the purple gem is one of the fields.
When the purple gem is close to the black asian, we can see the black adam's skin shrinking and aging rapidly, and this visual effect inevitably makes people more reminiscent of the black adam is imprisoned in the gem.
But it's also possible that the purple gem is related to a DC supervillain named Eclipse (Eclipso), who was once sealed in the gem world. If Black Adam finally exists as the more positive protagonist of the film, there is bound to be a supervillain, then will it be an eclipse!?
When Black Adam came out, he sat on his double-headed throne, and looking at the design of the throne, he seemed to have overthrown some warlord regime, and there were the corpses of some soldiers at his feet, which may be the new Kandak Kingdom invaded by Black Adam, and then he overthrew the regime and sat on the throne himself.
Next we look at the animated trailer about Black Adam and JSA, where Black Adam fatly beat up some local police officers and led out members of the JSA American Justice Society.
In the comics, the Justice Society predates the Justice League, and the members of the Justice Society can be understood as the old members of the Justice League, and of course they are not as popular as the justice league superheroes.
As mentioned earlier in the comics, Black Adam once joined the Justice Society and fought alongside them, this trailer introduces the members who work with Black Adam, and listens to the narration statement, it is Black Adam himself who finds a helper, and he plays the role of the boss in the team.
These members are Hawkman, Doctor Destiny, Whirlwind, and Atomic Crusher.
Originally set as the prince of the alien planet Thanagaal Kingdom, Eagle Man's wings are driven by magical compounds after several versions, he and Bird have telepathy and summoning abilities, Eagle Man is a pacifist, and has long been an opponent of Black Adam in the comics.
Dr. Destiny is the presence of a powerful wizard in DC, with a variety of powerful magical powers, including spell casting, mind power, telepathy, fire control and lightning operations, etc. Dr. Destiny's identity can have multiple transformations, mainly in the mask, whoever wears the helmet can become Doctor Fate.
Cyclones are able to mentally summon whirlwinds and spew out powerful air that flies through the air by the force of the wind.
The Atomic Crusher is also parted with Black Adam in the comics, and also has a strong body, but as the trailer shows, he can grow larger according to his own density and have stronger destructive power.
The four members of the Justice Society mentioned above will appear in the independent film of Black Adam, and they may also help Black Adam accomplish his ambitions and goals.
The teaser narrator mentions that the Justice Society wants to bring truth and justice to the world, but Black Adam says that he only fights for himself and welcomes to the Black Adamian era of truth and justice.
Therefore, the cooperation and contradictions between them should not be smooth sailing, which is also a major highlight of the movie!
Good! The above is some background introduction of Black Adam, a DC superhero, and this issue will first talk to you here!