DC’s Black Adam Casts Aldis Hodge as Hawkman

Black Adam has discovered its Hawkman. Aldis Hodge has been forged because the winged superhero reverse Dwayne Johnson’s titular anti-hero within the upcoming DC film, Johnson has confirmed. Within the DC comics, Hawkman is the superhero alias of a number of characters, however a report says that Hodge will play archaeologist Carter Corridor, the modern-day reincarnation of an historical Egyptian prince named Khufu who was cursed and murdered by an evil priest. In Black Adam, Hodge’s Carter Corridor/ Hawkman would be the chief of the Justice Society of America, the first impediment for Johnson’s Black Adam.

The Wrap first introduced phrase of Hodge in talks to play Carter Corridor / Hawkman in Black Adam. Later that day, Johnson took to Instagram to substantiate his casting within the function and revealed that he would lead the Justice Society of America. Hodge is the third confirmed forged member after Johnson as Black Adam and Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher (additionally a part of the Justice Society of America), whose presence was confirmed at DC FanDome again in August.

At DC FanDome, Johnson additionally gave us the first details on his Black Adam film. It begins off 5,000 years in the past in Kahndaq the place Johnson’s character is a slave. After he breaks free, he is imprisoned by a Council of Wizards — they had been additionally a part of Shazam!, the place the final surviving wizard gave protagonist Invoice Batson his Shazam powers — for eternity. Black Adam wakes up in current day and is set to by no means let something get in his method. He then goes up in opposition to the Justice Society of America, that includes Hawkman, Physician Destiny, Cyclone, and Atom Smasher.

Hodge is greatest recognized for the 2008–12 TNT motion crime sequence Leverage, the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, and the 2016 biopic Hidden Figures. He was most just lately seen within the Disney+ household comedy Magic Camp. His subsequent movie is Regina King’s directorial debut One Night time in Miami, which is touring the movie pageant circuit and is with out a launch date as but.

Jaume Collet-Serra, who has beforehand labored with Johnson on Disney’s Jungle Cruise — delayed as a result of pandemic to July 2021 — is ready as director on Black Adam. Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, creators of the British miniseries Informer, reportedly wrote a brand new script draft this month, working off a earlier draft by Adam Sztykiel. Manufacturing is predicted to start on Black Adam in early 2021.

Black Adam is slated to launch December 22, 2021 in cinemas worldwide.