SAN DIEGO, July 23 (Reuters) – Actor Dwayne Johnson made a dramatic entrance on the annual Comedian-Con popular culture conference on Saturday, hovering above a smoke-filled stage in a smooth superhero costume and promising “the DC Universe won’t ever be the identical.”
Johnson previewed his upcoming Warner Bros movie “Black Adam,” a narrative impressed by DC Comics a few former slave who’s granted god-like powers and awakens 5,000 years later in fashionable occasions.
His look set off flickering lights – meant to evoke lightning – that had been handed out to greater than 6,000 followers at a conference corridor in San Diego.
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The actor, who’s taking part in his first superhero position, stated he had wished to painting the anti-hero character for greater than a decade. The movie will debut in film theaters in October.
Beau Flynn, Jaume Collet-Serra, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Quintessa Swindell, Noah Centineo and Hiram Garcia attend the Warner Bros. Black Adam press line on the 2022 Comedian Con Worldwide: San Diego at Hilton Bayfront in San Diego, California, U.S., July 23, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
“It has been an extended journey, one which has been fueled with ardour, with dedication, with grit,” Johnson stated.
Director Jaume Collet-Serra, who labored with Johnson on final 12 months’s action-adventure movie “Jungle Cruise,” described Black Adam as a “Soiled Harry kind of character” who has “his personal sense of justice and mortality.”
“When the system is corrupt, generally you want anyone that breaks the system down,” Collet-Serra stated.
The movie additionally will introduce the Justice Society of America, which incorporates the characters Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell) and Dr. Destiny (Pierce Brosnan).
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Reporting by Lisa Richwine
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