Henry Cavill has formally confirmed what 1000’s of moviegoers—and anybody who retains tabs on film spoilers—already is aware of. After reprising his Superman position on the very finish of Black Adam, he’s “back” because the DC hero, although it’s not clear but precisely the place (maybe the rumored Man of Steel 2?) he’ll seem because the character subsequent.

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“I wanted to make it official that I am back as Superman,” Cavill introduced in an Instagram reel, which you’ll watch under. Without giving any particular particulars on future tasks, he thanked his followers for his or her persistence—and promised “what you saw in Black Adam [is] just a very small taste of what to come.”

If you’ll recall, again in 2019 Cavill (who was moderately busy that yr along with his smash-hit Netflix sequence, The Witcher) declared “the cape is in the closet… it’s mine”, after rumors in 2018 speculated his run because the character was over. That, after all, was the time interval between the unique launch of Justice League and Zack Snyder’s improved reduce of the movie for HBO Max; it was additionally earlier than DC started to cinematically revive itself with films that have been truly enjoyable to observe, like Aquaman and Shazam.

While Superman’s cameo in Black Adam was an open secret by the point the film truly opened final week, truly getting Cavill to look within the movie required the superpowers of Black Adam star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (you possibly can learn extra about that right here).

Black Adam is now in theaters.

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