10 Essential DC Villains Not Yet Used In The DCEU
3. Black Adam
He may be yet to appear in the DC Extended Universe, but those who’ve watched this year’s Shazam! were made familiar with the nefarious Black Adam’s origin through the storytelling of Djimon Hounsou’s Wizard.
When it comes to being brought to big-screen life, a Black Adam movie has been in development for nearly a decade by this point. For those keeping tabs, Dwayne Johnson has been long attached to play the character, both in a Shazam movie and in a solo outing for Black Adam. With Warners deciding against using the character in Shazam!, Adam is now geared up for a solo movie that is due to begin production next year.
Able to match and best hugely powerful heroes like Superman and Shazam, Black Adam has the sort of abilities that any hero or villain would dream of. Magic, flight, speed, invulnerability, and a big ol’ brain are just some of the skills afforded to this rogue.
The only real concern about the impending Black Adam movie, though, is that, with the ridiculously charming Dwayne Johnson on board to play the titular Teth-Adam, there may be the temptation to present Black Adam as more of an antihero – as has at times been a plot point used in the comics – rather than the thorough bastard he’s so often been most enjoyable as over the years.