Dwayne Johnson Just Put Another Nail In The SnyderVerse Coffin

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The Rock’s Black Adam is coming to theaters, and the Dwayne Johnson passion project is set to move the DCEU even further away from the Snydervse. While the DCEU originally started as a followup to Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, the franchise saw a number of course corrections following divisive movies like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and troubled productions like Justice League. Currently, the DCEU canon after Zack Snyder’s Justice League is still up in the air, but upcoming movies like Black Adam suggest that the franchise is indeed distancing itself from the SnyderVerse.

While no DCEU movie after Justice League provided any technical reboots regarding what had been established in the Snyderverse, they have also not followed any major storyline from Snyder’s original five-movie plan. At the moment, the DCEU seems to be focusing on solo stories that do not have to rely on the Justice League movies, such as Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Black Adam. The only exception to this seems to be The Flash, which is set to bring Michael Keaton’s Batman to the DCEU through a multiverse story and will also see the return of Ben Affleck's Batman. That said, despite being a solo entry, Black Adam seems to be crucial for the DCEU’s future.

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During DC’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, The Rock teased that Black Adam will “usher a new era for DC films.” While Dwayne Johnson did not get into detail about how exactly Black Adam will inform the DCEU canon going forward, it’s clear that the movie is trying to create its own mythology without relying on previous events from the Snyderverse. For example, the Justice Society in Black Adam appears to be an