Warner Bros brings ‘Black Adam,’ ‘Shazam! 2’ to Comic-Con

 Dwayne Johnson went a few steps beyond merely teasing his long-awaited “Black Adam” film at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday.

Ever the showman, Johnson introduced a brand new trailer for the DC Comics superhero film and a few flashy eras, lighting fixtures up the largest room on the annual fan conference all whilst in costume. But he had another massive reveal too: Johnson told the 6,000-some humans inside the target market that they might see “Black Adam” in IMAX without spending a dime with the help of the ticketing carrier Fandango.

The person Black Adam has the powers of the historic gods and has been entombed for some 5,000 years earlier than being launched into the contemporary global. In the trailer, he says his powers are “a curse, now not a present.”

Set for an Oct. 21 theatrical launch, “Black Adam” reunites Johnson with his “Jungle Cruise” director Jaume Collet-Serra. It also stars Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher, and Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, all of whom joined Johnson and Collet-Serra for the panel.

“Black Adam” turned into simply one part of Warner Bros.'s return to Comic-Con, in which audiences also were given a glimpse at a new trailer for “ Shazam! Fury of the Gods.” Stars Zachary Levi and Lucy Liu have been available to sell the sequel, that is because of arrives in theaters on Dec. 21 and keeps the story of a youngster-grew to become a superhero who is feeling a piece like a fraud. The movie sees the go-back of Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Adam Brody and adds Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler of “West Side Story” to the mixture.

The studio caught up to its 2022 superhero releases, forgoing sneak peeks at movies due subsequent yr. One of those is “The Flash,” whose superstar Ezra Miller became arrested in Hawaii two times this 12 months — in a disorderly behavior case and on suspicion of assault.

Miller plays Barry Allen in the Andy Muschietti-directed movie, which has wrapped production and is supposed to open in June 2023. They have been credited as the first LGBT characters to play a lead role in a first-rate superhero movie.