Warning: The article contains spoilers for Black Adam.
Now that Black Adam has made its way into theaters, the Dwayne Johnson-starring film has brought with it an entire superhero team in the Justice Society, whose leader is Aldis Hodge’s Carter Hall, better known as Hawkman, but where did the mace-wielding vigilante get his powers in the first place?
Based entirely on the sum of its star-studded parts, expectations were very high heading into the release of blockbuster thriller Rules of Engagement in April of 2000, but the end result was a colossal letdown on a number of levels for a variety of different reasons.
Directed by Academy Award-winning The Exorcist and The French Connection legend William Friedkin, the script marked the screenwriting debut of Stephen Gaghan – who would win an Oscar of his own for penning Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, which hit theaters only eight months later.
