DC Showcase: Adam Strange

RELEASED 19 May 20200h 16m★ 6.3 TMDB

On a rugged asteroid mining colony, few of the toiling workers are aware that their town drunk was ever anything but an interplanetary derelict. But when the miners open a fissure into the home of a horde of deadly alien insects, his true identity is exposed. He is space adventurer Adam Strange, whose heroic backstory is played out in flashbacks as he struggles to save the very people who have scorned him for so long.

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2020 DC Showcase animated short directed and produced by Butch Lukic, from his story and a screenplay by J.M. DeMatteis. Charlie Weber voices Adam Strange. Original disc presentation runs 16:05. A Tomorrowverse prelude to Green Lantern: Beware My Power, distributed separately as an Apokolips War bonus. Supporting role credits, official DC character-profile matches and complete appearance coverage remain unresolved.

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DC Showcase: Adam Strange is title 6 of 12 in our Tomorrowverse viewing sequence. This Tomorrowverse animated short introduces Adam Strange's troubled past and serves as a prelude to Green Lantern: Beware My Power. Start with the short for his backstory, then continue with that feature. It was distributed as separate bonus content with Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

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