Alejandro D. Orengo Colón

Puerto Rican based filmmaker and film critic and creator of Cine Más Podcast. I ramble on and on about art house cinema and indie flicks, my friends and colleagues say it’s my secret superpower.

It’s been well over a decade since Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was cast as the villain turned anti-hero Black Adam. During this time both the status quo of comic book films and even him as an actor has evolved and shifted massively. Back then he was just entering into a potential solo movie, in a world where the DCEU wasn’t fully formed yet, but now he’s part of an interconnective and, depending on who you ask, failing, DC Cinematic Universe. He made a promise back in 2020, during the height of the pandemic that The hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change. While he may not have made good on that promise from two years ago while on the screen, his work behind the scenes indicates just that.

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