After years of speculation, Henry Cavill is indeed returning to the DC universe as the Man of Steel.
“Hey everyone — I wanted to wait until the weekend was over before posting this because I wanted to give you all a chance to watch ‘Black Adam,’” the British actor, 39, said Monday in an Instagram video, referencing the Dwayne Johnson comic-book flick that just premiered.
“But now that plenty of you have, it’s official: I’m back.”
Spoiler alert: Superman’s familiar face shows up unannounced in the end credits of Johnson’s record-breaking superhero turn, which brought in $67 million in ticket sales last weekend. That’s the biggest opening weekend for any movie featuring Johnson as the leading man.
Cavill makes a dramatic entrance in the middle of the movie’s end credits as Superman, descending after Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller drops in on Johnson’s Black Adam by drone. In good-cop/bad-cop style, the confrontation unfolds: Waller issues a not-so-veiled threat to Black Adam about what might happen were he to leave his home country of Kahndaq. Superman, however, just wants to talk.
“The image you see on this post and what you saw on ‘Black Adam’ are just a very small taste of what’s to come,” Cavill said in his video.
