Dwayne Johnson brings the thunder in first Black Adam trailer
Dwayne Johnson's super-antihero movie finally comes to theaters in October
DC and Warner Bros. have been teasing little bits of footage from director Jaume Collet-Serra’s Black Adam since last year, showing off Dwayne Johnson’s eponymous superhero as he brutally electrocutes some poor jerk to death… because Black Adam isn’t really a superhero at all.
He was originally a straight-up villain, the bad guy inversion of Shazam (a.k.a. Captain Marvel, but nobody uses that name for him anymore for some reason) like Venom or the Reverse Flash or whichever variation of that trope you prefer, but for far much more of his history he’s been an antihero who just wants to do whatever he thinks his best for Kahndaq—the fictional Middle Eastern/African nation he calls home. Naturally, that often involves electrocuting people to death with a scary version of Shazam’s powers, which, to the uninitiated, seems like something a bad guy would do.