Development was put on hold in 2009 and started again once Warner Bros planned a shared universe – the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani had written a new draft of the script by September, [10] when Aldis Hodge was cast as Hawkman.

On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100, based on 52 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".This included development on a Captain Marvel movie, with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in the running to play either Black Adam or Captain Marvel.

Noah Centineo and Quintessa Swindell’s Atom Smasher and Cyclone feel like they stumbled in from another movie. Additional casting took place over the next year, including four members of the Justice Society of America, along with the script being rewritten by Haines and Noshirvani. Pulliam-Moore felt that the death of Adam's son "radicalizes him and emboldens him to use his newfound powers to seek a kind of justice so brutal that those around him are forced to lock him away".According to Film Stories, physical copies of Black Adam will release on January 16th, 2023 in the UK. Black Adam was pushed back to October 21, 2022, with The Flash and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom moved from late 2022 into 2023 to allow time for their visual effects work to be completed.

Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish-American filmmaker who previously directed 2009's Orphan and, more recently, 2021's Jungle Cruise. starring the hero Captain Marvel, whom DC had since rebranded as Shazam; and Black Adam, with Johnson starring as the title antihero. Development on the film was placed on hold by January 2009, [40] but had begun again by April 2014 when Warner Bros.

To be honest, I didn't know much about DC movies, but I loved MCU works, so I watched it with the expectation that I could feel that kind of thing. Furthermore, he said that Black Adam serves as the first film in Phase One of a new storytelling initiative in the DCEU. He’s enjoyed extensive development over the decades, turning him into a complex character with limited allegiances and patience. Summary Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.