DC Shares the Return of Superman ‘Black Adam’ Post-Credit Scene: WATCH
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Warner Bros. and DC Studios made the BlackAdam
post-credits scene available in HD with the return of Henry Cavill as Superman.
The scene starts out with Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller (who’s been pulling the strings behind the Suicide Squad in not one, but two movies) sending over a drone to talk with Black Adam. Waller isn’t too happy with Black Adam after he escaped from her underwater prison — which was run by Peacemaker character Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) in a fun cameo.
Waller tells Black Adam that he has her attention, and she’ll let him go free as long as he doesn’t step foot outside his home country, Kahndaq. Black Adam smirks, saying, “There’s nobody on this planet who can stop me,” which prompts Waller reply that there’s someone not from this world who can help her. Then we hear the famous John Williams’ theme to 1978’s Superman the Motion Picture that morphs into Man of Steel’s Han Zimmer score.
Sure enough, Superman, the last son of Krypton, crashes down from above in a cloud of dust. As the Man of Steel emerges from the smoke, he tells Black Adam:
“It’s been a while since someone’s made the world this nervous. We should talk.”
The #BlackAdam post-credits scene is now available in HD with the return of Henry Cavill as Superman.
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Cut to black.
Cavill explained how the whole scene came to be in Entertainment Weekly in October:
Henry Cavill not only flexed his impeccable physique as Superman in Dwayne Johnson‘s Black Adam, he also showed off his strong-willed secrecy skills in keeping the whole thing under wraps.
“It’s one of those things which we shot in secret in the U.K., and everyone amazingly kept quiet about it,” Cavill revealed on Friday’s Live With Kelly & Ryan, referencing his surprise return as Superman in a credits sequence at the end of the new DC blockbuster. “We were at a studio, so it was all locked down. No one gets in.”
The 39-year-old actor, who first portrayed Clark Kent in 2013’s Man of Steel, explained that the appearance came about thanks to producers Danny Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Johnson, who’d “been working very hard to make this happen.”
“Over many years of conversation, it got to a point where they said, ‘Right, okay, we are green-lit for this,'” he continued. “So I slipped into the suit and came to work.”
When the show’s host pressed Cavill on whether he’d return for another feature focused on Superman, he remained tight-lipped.
“I can’t say anything official on what will or won’t be happening, but there are murmurings,” Cavill teased. “We’ll see.”
Cavill previously teased in an Instagram post that what fans saw in Black Adam is “just a very small taste of things to come” that he promised he’d get to “in time.”
Since then Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav made James Gunn and producer Peter Safran the heads of DC Studios and the pair are “coming close to the end” of finishing a bible for DC (an entertainment term for a document roadmap that outlines key characters and plot points).
Zaslav:
“I think over the next few years, you’re going to see a lot of growth and opportunity around DC, there’s not going to be four Batmans. And so part of our strategy is drive the hell out of DC, which James and Peter are going to do. I think they’ve thrilled the fans. I think they’re going to thrill you over a period of time.”
Safran emphasized that DC will focus on telling a single story much like Marvel Studios has done.
“This was such a unique opportunity to tell one great overarching story”, said Safran, known for producing Shazam! and Aquaman. “One beautiful big story across film, television gaming, live-action, and animation.”
“It’s never been about a one-off or just about a fight,” Garcia, who has been producing films with Johnson for years, told CinemaBlend in a recent interview. “No, it’s about so much more than that. We really want to craft a long-form of storytelling and show that these two characters exist in the same universe and are going to have to deal with each other often, either on the same or opposite sides.”
Garcia continued, “Hopefully they’re going to clash at some point, but it’s not just about a ‘one fight’ situation. That was never our dream. That does not reward the fans. Fans want to feel a journey between these guys knowing that these guys exist in the same universe.”
“I have been saying for some time, there’s a new era in the DC Universe that’s about to begin,” the actor previously told CinemaBlend. “And what I meant by that was introducing a brand-new character. It’s not a sequel, not an existing IP. It was… you know, Black Adam! Two years ago the world had no idea who he was. We did, but not, you know, the rest of the mass out there… But also, what I really meant by ‘this is a new era in the DC Universe’ is listening to the fans and doing our best to give the fans what they want.”
He continued, “Maybe, sometime down the road — and I went through this in pro wrestling — is you can’t always give them what you want. But you’ll always know that we’re listening… I have been listening and I’ve been wanting to address fans for years… And the whole goal and intention now is to this new era, new time. Now let’s build out.”
Shazam: Fury of the Gods will be the first film under the DC Studios name in 2023.
Watch the trailer below.
Check out the official trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods – in theaters this Christmas. #ShazamMovie pic.twitter.com/WlHdrkG99L
— Shazam! Fury of the Gods (@ShazamMovie) July 23, 2022
Black Adam is in theaters now.
