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After years of development and teases, Dwayne Johnson's 'Black Adam' finally has a release date – Dec. 22, 2021.
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00:00After being attached to play the DC character
00:02for more than a decade,
00:03Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam finally has a release date.
00:06Johnson took to Instagram on Thursday
00:08to reveal that the New Line film will open
00:10on December 22nd, 2021.
00:12He captioned the artwork,
00:13"'Like most kids growing up,
00:15"'I dreamed about being a superhero,
00:16"'having cool superpowers, fighting for what's right,
00:19"'and always protecting the people.
00:20"'Now, years later, as a man with the same DNA
00:23"'I had as a kid, my superhero dreams have come true.'"
00:26And although Black Adam has traditionally been a villain,
00:28Johnson is selling him as a hero.
00:30He wrote,
00:31"'Black Adam is blessed by magic
00:33"'with the powers equal to Superman,
00:35"'but the difference is he doesn't toe the mark
00:37"'or walk the line.
00:38"'He's a rebellious, one-of-a-kind superhero
00:40"'who will always do what's right for the people,
00:42"'but he does it his way.'"
00:43Johnson added,
00:44"'The role is unlike any other I've ever played in my career,
00:47"'and I'm grateful to the bone
00:48"'we'll all go on this journey together.'"
00:50Black Adam is a spinoff of Shazam,
00:52Zachary Levi's superhero film that opened in April.
00:55You can leave tall buildings in a single bound.
00:58I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
01:01Now, the December 22nd release date puts it just days
01:04after the highly anticipated film Avatar 2,
01:07which comes out December 17th, 2021,
01:09which will be a packed year for DC films.
01:11Matt Reeves' The Batman,
01:13starring Robert Pattinson, opens on June 25th,
01:15and James Gunn's The Suicide Squad hits on August 6th, 2021.
01:19For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:21Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,
01:23I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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