Black AdamAdds Sarah Shahi in a Mysterious New Role

After adding bothHawkmanandAtom Smasherto its cast of classic DC Comics characters , the Dwayne Johnson - led Black Adam is welcoming another lead star to its ranks . It ’s a mystic role that might throw away a footling scrap of illumination about where the moving-picture show ’s focus is ultimately going to end up .

Deadlinereports that Chicago Fire ’s Sarah Shahi has fall in Black Adam ’s cast in an unrevealed role that the swap describes as a teacher base out of the fictional country of Kahndaq — where Black Adam has , at times , been considered a zep and god inDC ’s comics . Deadline also notes that Shahi ’s character is a “ freedom scrapper ” working as part of a resistance group within the state pushing back against some unidentified oppressive force .

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Sarah Shahi at the 2019 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour.

Sarah Shahi at the 2019 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour.Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty (Getty Images)

There are a swell number of characters within Black Adam ’s compass who Shahi could play to the big silver screen , but the most obvious in this case would be the hero Adrianna Tomaz . In the comics , she comes to meet a major role in Black Adam ’s life history as a person who determine his views on how best to protect the citizenry of Kahndaq . Though Tomaz is not the original woman Black Adam loved in his previous life as Teth - Adam in ancient Egypt , in time he seeks her hand in marriage and offers for her to join him in sharing in the power of the Egyptian gods . By taking the mystical Amulet of Isis and uttering the phrase “ I am Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence , ” Tomaz traditionally gains a turn of magical power associated with the Egyptian goddess and becomes a superhero in her own right field .

The character was most notably brought to life in the ‘ 70s as Andrea Thomas in the live - action TV show The Secrets of Isis ( part of The Shazam ! Isis Hour ) . Isis also seem in the animated Freedom Force as well as Smallville , and of late has been set up asZari Tomaz(played by Tala Ashe ) on CW ’s The Legends of Tomorrow .

Because the accurate details of Black Adam ’s plot of land have n’t been revealed , it ’s just as possible that Shahi could end up bet another classic DC character set to come along in the films , like any one of the members of theJustice Society already announced . Just what Shahi ’s character ’s doing in Kahndaq , and what her connection is to Black Adam , are sure to be interesting item when Warner Bros. prefer to make them public in the months leading up to Black Adam ’s premiere — whenever Warner Bros. really decides toput the flick back on its production slate .

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