The Rock Goes Bad: Dwayne Johnson Embraces Villainy as Black Adam

“Teth-Adam” was also the name given to the character during his debut in 1945. For the film, Egypt has been replaced as his homeland with the fictional Middle Eastern realm of Kahndaq, as it has been in the comics for years. Otherwise, the origin stories match up. Black Adam’s turn to the dark side will also provide more of a rationale for his mercilessness, if not a justification for it. It’s all connected to something unspeakable that happened to his family when they were enslaved in that long-ago era. “That’s something that’s universal, that everyone can relate to,” Johnson says…. Read Full Article