It has been at least a couple of weeks since we last heard any kind of update on Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam movie, and that means it’s time for a post-production update from producer Hiram Garcia. With Johnson having kept fans well in the loop during the filming of his DC debut, Garcia has picked up the mantel since the film wrapped with regular news on where they currently are, and with a sequel already having been hinted at, there is certainly a lot riding on Johnson’s “disruptive” hero doing the business when he arrives in cinemas this summer.

Currently, the movie is deep in post-production and already has an initial cut complete, which has thrown up a few things that Garcia and director Collet-Serra are now working on refining based on what they have learned while putting that first director’s cut together. In a new interview with Collider, Garcia explained at length the process that they are currently going through. He said:

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Garcia goes on to praise Collet-Serra and The Rock.

“Oh, we just saw the director’s cut recently, and we were really excited. Like you know, a lot of times when you see that early cut, it sets a table where you realize, ‘Okay, now we understand how much work we got to do.’ Granted, the movie’s in a stage where there are no effects done. It’s so fresh after filming. But anytime the movie is that entertaining and good in that raw of a form, it makes us very confident. So really excited with where the movie is.”

Black Adam has been a long time in the making for Johnson, who has professed for many months now that this is the superhero movie that is going to “disrupt the hierarchy of the DECU” and from what has been seen so far in clips and previews from DC FanDome, Johnson’s own Instagram account, and other events, it is certainly setting up to be one of the big movies of 2022. If anyone was in any doubt of that, Johnson’s performance in the movie was recently voted as one of the most anticipated new performances of the year alongside that of fellow DC newcomer Robert Pattinson who will be making his debut in The Batman in March.

Black Adam is all set to arrive in cinemas on July 29th, 2022, when we find out just how much of an impact the movie has on the superhero genre.