Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson hasn't exactly done a great job at keeping one of his film's biggest reveals a secret, so it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that the film's showstopping post-credits sequence has leaked online in its entirety.
We won't be linking the scene here for legal reasons, as Warner Bros. and New Line scramble to scrub it as quickly as possible, but it's been spreading like wildfire across Twitter and TikTok all afternoon and may be hard to avoid before the film finally opens in theaters next Friday, October 21.
As for what it contains, Variety reports the scene indeed reveals, "Henry Cavill as Superman, stepping out from a veil of smoke, confronting Johnson’s Black Adam and saying, “It’s been a while since anyone’s made the world this nervous"
Johnson has been expressing his desire to bring Henry Cavill's Superman back into the mix at a pretty relentless pace throughout the film's lengthy global press tour and has managed to generate quite a bit of buzz for a then-hypothetical cinematic showdown between his Black Adam and the Man of Steel. However, it looks like he'll actually be getting his wish as Cavill is seemingly back in the saddle and ready to usher in a new era of DC Films.
Since it's probable this post-credits sequence was a late-stage addition to the movie, it raises a lot of questions about what Warner Bros. could have planned for Cavill's future as the Man of Steel. Could we see him in a proposed Superman & Shazam vs. Black Adam film or will he return for a Justice League vs Justice Society of America film first or could we finally see the studios move forward with a Man of Steel sequel? Only time will tell, but either way, it looks like exciting days lie ahead for all of us.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.