Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam movie has a ton of Easter eggs that pulls from the DC Comics world and beyond, and it took quite a while to get them all in there. After several years of having his film stuck in development hell, Johnson has entered the DCU as Black Adam, bringing the iconic antihero to life for the first time on the big screen. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Black Adam follows the grim origin story of Teth-Adam and how he became one of the planet's most powerful beings.

While Black Adam set the foundation for Teth-Adam's era in the DCU, the film also pulled in other big comic book elements throughout the film. As Black Adam took on the villainous Intergang organization, the DCU also brought Sabbac to life as another baddie for Johnson's character to fight. While the DCU movie followed Johnson's antihero, the Black Adam film also introduced the Justice Society of America, the Golden Age team that traditionally predates the Justice League.

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Similar to most comic book and superhero movies, Black Adam didn't hold back when it came to spreading out Easter eggs from the DC Comics world. Screen Rant recently spoke with Black Adam editor Mike Sale, ACE, who opened up about helping work on the long-waited DCU installment. One of Sale's favorite aspects of Black Adam was the amount of DC Easter eggs and the joy of getting to pull from the comics. While Sale wouldn't spoil every specific nod in the film, it was a fun experience getting to plant seeds from DC Comics, as he stated the following:

Mike Sale, ACE: I've got to tell you, there's a bunch of [Easter eggs], really. Jaume Collet-Serra is super smart, and he put bunches of things in there. I'm not going to say what they are, but the more you watch this movie... And they're not only just from video games or the DC world. Even going back into comic books. Jaume studied for six months for this movie. He read every comic book, and he has some crazy, amazing memory. He remembers everything.

One of my favorite parts of working on this movie is he would come into my room, and I would go, "Why is he wearing a cloak when he wakes up out on the Rock of Eternity? Jaume would go tell me a 45-minute story about what really happened after he battled the king, and why he's now wearing a cloak.

You can't tell all of that stuff in the movie. Some of it, because of him telling me, we got in the movie. When he told me how the wizards entombed him, which could be a whole movie, we got that little four-second thing in our movie that we were able to put in. When he told me that, I was like, "Dude, we've got to get that in the movie for the fans." He was like, "I don't know. Where would it go?" And we would find places.

It made it really, really fun. I have to say, Dwayne and Hiram Garcia and the producers are all way into these comic books and the characters. They were really excited by these little Easter eggs and pushing for them and making sure that they didn't get lost along the way—because those things could go. That shot, we could have taken out and saved a bunch of money.

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For mainstream audiences seeing Black Adam, some Easter eggs may not be noticed. However, for hardcore comic book fans, it's fascinating to see Black Adam pulling as much as they did from the DC lore. Something that Black Adam did both in the actual film, but also throughout the marketing, was paying homage to several iconic comic book covers with Teth-Adam. One pivotal moment was when Black Adam sat down on the throne and posed exactly as the cover for volume 1 of the DC series, 52, which is a neat touch as they were willing to pull from comics that came out several years ago.

Hopefully, as the Black Adam movie has opened worldwide, it will encourage general audience viewers to explore the character's comic mythology. Since Johnson and his creative team have made it clear that they have plans for the Black Adam franchise, it will be interesting to see what potential sequels pull from in terms of his comic lore into the DCU. Hopefully, with DC Studios up and running, things will become more clear for the Black Adam film series, as Johnson's antihero is just getting started in the DCU.

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