Black Adam is out this weekend, and as is commonly the case with superhero motion pictures, its post-credits scene teases some fascinating potentialities for the way forward for the DC film universe. Chances are you already know what it’s (both by simply seeing the movie or varied different means), however simply in case: don’t learn this if you happen to haven’t truly seen the movie and need to be stunned. Now then…

So sure, Henry Cavill’s Superman is again in motion, as beforehand reported. Rocking a model of his Man of Steel go well with and with a little bit curl on his brow, Superman exhibits up in Kahndaq telling Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) that they should have a chat now that the latter has smugly declared that nobody on the planet is able to going on-one-on in opposition to him. Johnson was beforehand stated to have fought onerous for that scene to occur—so onerous that when then-head of DC Films Walter Hamada stated “no,” the wrestler/actor went over him to get it permitted—and a latest story from the Hollywood Reporter actually underlines how near the wire it was.

Adam’s cinematographer Lawrence Sher advised THR that director Jaume Collet-Serra primarily pitched the scene to him as “something for Dwayne to walk into … And we’re going to shoot it in like 10 minutes.” Johnson’s half of the scene was shot on the ultimate day of reshoots, with the workforce doing the Superman half through a physique double and a model of John Williams’ traditional Superman theme they discovered on Google. Similar to the post-credits scene for Shazam, solely Superman’s emblem was proven on the prospect that issues wouldn’t work out. Watching it play out was “actually goosebumps,” stated Sher. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is 100 percent going to work. Now they need to figure out if they can get the guy with the head to be there.’”

Test screenings for Black Adam went nuts once they noticed stated scene, which made securing Cavill much more of an crucial. Once Johnson acquired that permitted, Cavill needed to movie his half in London only a month in the past, the place he was presumably filming the third season of The Witcher. For that, Sher needed to movie remotely, since he couldn’t journey to the UK. Of seeing Cavill carry out the scene, he stated: “There are certain people that are iconic as the characters that they play, and he’s really one of them.”

Black Adam is in theaters now.

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