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“This is the one for me,” Johnson told Reuters.
Despite the “Red Notice” actor starring in a string of box
office hits, he felt uneasy releasing this film because it is a
departure from his past roles.
He explained, "Everything I've been lucky enough to do in my
career, from wrestling to film and anything and everything in
between, it's all led to this. It's all led to this and this
character."
The character Black Adam first appeared in a 1945 Fawcett comic
book. Since the 1970s, the character was acquired by DC Comics,
first as a supervillain and then as a superhero.
In the film, Black Adam, the ancient hero of fictional country
Kahndaq, is freed from imprisonment after 5,000 years and he is
less than happy about such a rude awakening.
“This one means so much to me because you get one shot in a
lifetime and I wanted to give it all I had,” Johnson said. The
wrestler-turned-actor also hopes the audiences will connect with
the film the same way he connected with the Black Adam character
during his childhood.
He said, "When I saw my first "Black Adam" comic, where that
superhero, that supervillain, had brown skin and he's just as
powerful as Superman, I think that's a rooting anchor that maybe
there'll be a few kids in other cultures around the world who
will say 'Oh that's me. That Black Adam is me'."
His fellow cast members include Sarah Shahi as Isis, Noah
Centineo as Atom Smasher and Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone.
Produced by New Line Cinema, a unit of AT&T Inc's Warner Bros
studio, "Black Adam" will be released on Friday.
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'Red Notice'
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross; Editing by Lisa
Shumaker)
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