After mendacity dormant for almost a 12 months, the DCEU has stormed again into popular culture consciousness. At this 12 months’s San Diego Comedian-Con, Warner Bros. took benefit of their prime Corridor H actual property and introduced out the solid and administrators of two of 2022’s most extremely anticipated motion pictures of the 12 months.
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, should you keep in mind, was their very own variations of Shazam on the finish of that movie.
This time round, they’re combating the daughters of Atlas, performed by revered thespian and Quick & Livid badass Helen Mirren and former Charlie’s Angel Lucy Liu. Along with the same old lighting blasts and scenes of mass destruction, there seems to be an enormous dragon within the combine as nicely, which is at all times 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 division at Warner Bros. goes out of its approach to paint the comedian e book character as one thing of an enigma. Is he good? Evil? Someplace in-between? Con attendees obtained a one minute sneak peek, which was (after all) 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 Nineteen Forties that’s represented by Hawkman, Atom Smasher, Cyclone, and Dr. Destiny, performed by former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan. Black Adam smashes his manner into theaters on October 21, 2022.
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