Shazam! movie news
 

Booya!! The Rock is Black Adam! :D

Great! He's a much better fit with Adam than he would have been as the big red cheese.

I was looking at the list of movies coming out next year and discovered that this film now has a different name. Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam. WTF?

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0448115/

https://www.newsarama.com/35421-repo...-attached.html

Shazam starts shooting in February and... no more Rock? This is very puzzling on a number of levels.

Looks like confirmed:
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...k-adam-a152631

'"And talking to those fans down there, they had talked up to me about, you know,''

seems like a weird thing to say.

but, whatever.

I doubt a super light hearted seeming character like shazam would fit well in the DC Murder verse. in the animated series, they show billy as even more boyscout than superman.

that won't fit in well.

And I can kind of understand beginning things with a Black Adam movie to warm people up to the idea of a Shazam! movie... but I can't understand just beginning with a Shazam! movie that doesn't even have Black Adam in it at all.

Maybe to built up for Black Adam to face Superman in a Man of Steel 2?

How does that help a Shazam movie that doesn't have Black Adam in it?

I really, really, reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally don't care about this.

I am, however, baffled that WB chose this as the next project to prioritize? Not Flash or Green Lantern? Not Nightwing or Batgirl? Not Robin or Supergirl or Man of Steel 2?

Well, isn't Flash in active production but still mired with the same problems its had since the beginnings? (revolving door of directors, etc.) Putting a "rush" on Flash (get it?) would probably make things even more difficult to keep a director on it, I'd imagine.

This Shazam! thing smells of Geoff Johns to me. He's always had a soft place for Captain Marvel at DC and with all of his many interviews in the last few months all saying the same mantra about, "The thing that's so great about DC characters is how much they're full of hope and fun, blah blah," I bet he's convinced the right people that Shazam! can be the champion of that movement in the DCCU. Because they've already screwed up Superman, in their eyes.

It's so weird how afraid they are of touching Superman. Even before Man of Steel, even before Superman Returns... just years and years of them... talking about it. Thinking things, overthinking things. He's like the easiest DC character to get "right."

Yeah, this smells of Geoff Johns all right.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...perman-a152664

I'm almost positive I've heard Geoff use those exact words to describe why Shazam! is so great.

Still scarce info, but David Sanberg feeds us the same ''we'll be much lighter'' line we've heard before

https://www.newsarama.com/35795-shaz...dc-movies.html

Everyone towing the Geoff Johns line.

Sad!

lighter is just what a shazam series needs.

it should have been what superman needed too..

everything can't be dark and moody like batman..and even batman needs a break from that sometime.

This thread is 10 years old, daaamn.

Is the rock casting rumor seriously 10 years old? What the f*ck?

2007 was like 2 years ago... stop it.

This thread is a Cybercubed rant in the making.

never noticed how old the thread was. has this thing seriously been in planning that long? thought it was rather recent.

Shazam! is the next DCEU movie they're shooting.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...bsence-a153307

Pretty unfortunate. Nobody cares about a Shazam! movie except Geoff Johns. This is clearly the "Look! Everyone, see? DCEU movies are not about doom and gloom! Really!" movie.

Shazam Release Date Confirmed by Director
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/new...ed-by-director

The only thing I know of Shazam! is from the special comic that Jeff Smith did for him...which I only read because I was into Bone at the time (yet I never finished RASL?)

So even if the movie flops, I can hope that at least Jeff Smith would have enjoyed it, since Shazam! is his favorite superhero.

Shazam has been cast. He will be played by Zachary Levi

http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/10/27/s...evi-dc-comics/

Interesting choice. I can get behind it. Zachary's a good dude who does his homework so happy to see him catch a leading role like this.

Wait, I don't get it. The article says he's playing Billy Batson. But like...chill. He's a grown ass ****ing man. So Is he Shazam? Because he sucks for that, too. He's dorky and goofy looking.

a grown up Billy Batson, you have to remember that you see him as a kid, and then he grows older, he's still Billy Batson, but as an adult.

...uh-huh.

Oh, I assumed he'd just put on some muscle ala Chris Pratt and would only be playing Shazaam and some other kid would be playing Billy.

Except this dude needs to bulk up because he looks more like the kid than Shazam.

This movie is dead on arrival. I hope Geoff goes down with the ship this time... he is 100% the little weasel pushing this movie through.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...marvel-a154974

Shazam adds Mark Strong as possible Villain and Grace fulton in mystery role

Billy Bateson has been cast!

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...batson-a155059

What a waste.

Looks like the movie will take huge inspiration from the Tom Hanks movie "Big".
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/shaza...powers-a155360

Star Zachary Levi (Chuck), who will bring the mighty hero to life, recently stopped by KTLA 5 to share a few intriguing tidbits about the upcoming David Sandberg-directed film, teasing the film's fun coming-of-age tone and comparing it favorably to a Tom Hanks classic. "The hope is that it’s gonna feel like the movie ‘Big’, but with superpowers... So, you’re gonna have the heart of that kind of Tom Hanks of the kid in you."

http://www.darkhorizons.com/shazam-d...efore-judging/

The director asks to "wait before judging."

Movie will be released April 5th 2019

http://deadline.com/2018/01/shazam-s...os-1202241983/

Superman will appear

https://revengeofthefans.com/2018/01...perman-movies/

http://collider.com/shazam-filming-b..._medium=social

Filming starts today

The costume

https://twitter.com/DcComicsUnited/s...19064183566336