Shazam! 2
 

Lucy Liu will be in it, Helen Mirren as the bad guy:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/lucy-li...shazam-sequel/

June, 2023, though? Yeesh. Why would this take longer than Black Adam to make? This should've already come out, or at least been in the can even before the "pandemic" hit.

That was one of my biggest issues with the first one, especially the ending when they popped the cork on the entire Marvel Family. I dug that, but I was like, "Well, they better start shooting the sequel like, Tomorrow, or else all of these kid actors are gonna be too old to come back."

Such is always the risk when doing any movie with a lot of young actors in the cast.

I think part of the delay was in part because, for all the glowing reviews and "Finally! A FUN DC movie!" stuff, it didn't actually make much money. Like, let's be honest, $366 million is pitiful for a super-hero movie. They "only" spent $100 million on it, so technically they came out ahead, barely, but still... you know that WB wanted/expected a LOT better returns considering how strongly they positioned it as DC's "Marvel Movie", all light and "fun" and family-friendly and whatnot. After marketing costs, they maybe only broke even, possibly. So one would think that if it made more money, the sequel might have come out sooner, but instead they had to go back to the drawing board for "retooling", to try and figure out just what they did "wrong".

Then again, Aquaman made a billion dollars and they dragged their feet on THAT sequel, too. So maybe WB is just run by drunken chimps who don't know what the f*ck they're doing. :lol: THAT, I can absolutely believe.

Yeah...

"We are SO proud that Aquaman is a huge hit! Thank you, everybody!"

And then...

"We hope you turn up for Aquaman 2, coming in 10 years!"

WB is bonkers in every conceivable way.

Right? :lol:

WB, on a good day, could f*ck up a wet dream. Their only consistent trait is failure. Even when they "win", they pooch the follow-through.

I'm a huge fan of a lot of the properties they own, but as a COMPANY? Oof. Drizzling sh*ts.

new suit for Shazam

http://www.justjared.com/2021/06/03/...am-2-set-pics/

https://i.imgur.com/x776b32.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LX8avb3.jpg
New look at the suits they are darker than they were in the first movie

The kids who grew up with the Saban Entertainment have "Power Rangered" everything as a method of life-operating. Of course there's precedent for the "Shazam family" but that feature only made this I.P. juicier for today's kids-turned-consumer.

Just an observation as to the greater pop-culture zeitgeist and wear it's roots lay. There can be no singular super-hero for everyone is already a unique and special flower and everything is just a mantel that is waiting for you to be inserted into. Congrats!

The first Shazam flick was entertaining and had a few heartstring moments. Watched it once - it was fine. Sort of expect about the same from this one.

From now on I need you guys to warn me in advance if there's Eminem on the trailer soundtrack so I know not to click it. :tgrumble:

So okay, that looks pretty awful, but so did the original one which the trailers misrepresented by making it look like wall-to-wall batsh*t comedy, and the movie was actually a lot more balanced which was nice. So I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that the actual movie might be good even with a lousy trailer. As of right now, I don't wanna see it.

Although Mary Marvel looks pretty f*cking hot and I'm generally a pretty big fan. Hmmm.

Admittedly, I did mark out when they did the whole Marvel Family in the first movie, but seeing how this one is going full-on into that, I think it was a mistake going there so soon and I agree with a lot of what IMJ said. It's like we barely spend any time with "just" Captain Marvel (BITE me, that's his f*cking name) and he's already sharing time with a whole entire ensemble. Doesn't really do a lot to build HIM up, and I'm concerned with the trailer's entire narrative being about what a loser he is. That's... not the character.

Also... no follow-up whatsoever for the Mr. Mind tease at the end of the first-one, I'm guessing? Just full-on "Forget about it, you never saw it, we're moving on" like it's the MCU? Huh. I mean I get that it's a pretty silly villain but why even go there in the first place, then? Oh, WB, you and your pathetic lack of forward planning.

I don't know. Looks like sh*t but so did the first one, and the first one turned out okay. Guess we'll see, but it's not grabbing me at all.

Shazam is taking Aquaman's old release date March 17, 2023

https://deadline.com/2022/08/aquaman...se-1235099521/

I thought for sure he was going to be the main villain of Peacemaker.

I like those reforms, if for nothing, but a shitstorm they create on Internet.

Does not look good. And villains look weak.

Feels like we all got robbed we probably won't ever get to see this version of Shazam and The Rock's Black Adam battle each other on screen.

It's going to end up like the Venom movies. What's the point, if no Spider-Man? And with the Gunn verse starting... what're the odds they're going to really keep this guy around as Shazam and those kids as the kids? The guy looks like a skinny 60 year-old now and those kids look 25-30 years-old already.

Just a great big waste all around. Waste of potential, waste of talent, mismanagement of resources.

Just saw an ad for this before a youtube video I watched; man what weak sauce

I don't think the villains are even from the comics....

Another "jump the shark" moment for the de-evolution of comic book movies?

Yeah, 'original villains', maybe they thought Mr. Mind (who was set up in the last one) was too cartoony?

The short Shazam comic that came out the same year by Geoff Johns would have been a perfect story to adapt for the films

You'd think they'd hurry up and cram them into the comics before the movie is out so they can point and say "see??? they're from the comics!!! from five minutes ago!!!"

I mean they gave Nubia her own show, something like this wouldn't surprise me.

There has got to be a good story from the past fifty years of Shazam comics they can mine before giving more money to that man.

I think you're assuming the people working on the film actually read the comics.

Apparently not, if it's true they're just pulling villains out of the ether.

Any predictions on this? A big bomb? A Black Adam-style "baaaarely break even"/lose money situation?

Little of column A a lot of column B.

This movie wasn't going to do as well as the first to begin with, but then it was brought down with:

1) Lame trailer
2) "Hollywood Created" villain and deviation from source material
3) Now-defunct DCEU

My guess here? Absolute flop.

Just the idea they're creating villains... like... is the villain at least a combination of several ones, kinda like how Iron Man 2 used a mix of Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo?

:lol::lol: Man you always know how to bring me down with that..... :lol:

Levi appears to have opinions on Pfiizer...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1619599266607169539

The cancellation train is probably pulling out the station as we speak!

Oh man, here we go again.

So horribly sick of this by now. We're not in 2021 anymore, we know a lot more now than we did back then.

The cat's out of the bag already. CoVid is all but gone, the 'vaccine' was a sham that barely works at best, ****s you up at worst, or you drop your guard, thinking you're safe, catch CoVid and die anyway despite being vaxxed and boosted.

Let's stop pretending it's anything different. Everyone knows by now that saving human lives was the very last thing Pfizer was concerned about. Stop punishing and making examples out of people speaking the truth or questioning the 'false truth'.

This **** is never gonna end until we get to the point where someone says 'omg so-and-so said this and that regarding the coivd vaccine' the response it will get is 'so?'

I still don't think we can rule out a soft rebooted DCEU. Where Gal Gadot is still WW and Momoa is still Aquaman and this guy is still Shazam... but kind of everything else is different.

Yup.
And that's even less than a "Racism" or "Sexism"! An opinion about global corporation! But apparently Lefties can not allow anyone badmouth mighty corps, even, if it goes very much against their ideology!

Oh, well, dumb trash gonna be dumb trash.

But again... by whom? Nobody actually has this power so who are the cowardly decision-makers that would allow someone's career to be "cancelled" because they have opinions about a drug? Furthermore because a few people on Twitter talk some $#!( and a few internet-basement dwellers write liberal articles damning these people for clicks?

I want those people cancelled.

This. Let them get a taste of their own medicine.

Well, Gadot as WW is in it.

https://cosmicbook.news/gal-gadot-wo...azam-fury-gods

This is probably what she meant on her twitter when she said she was going to still appear soon, and people didn't know what she meant since Wonder Woman 3 was canned.

I just took it as Flash. Pretty sure she'd even be in the pre-reshoot stuff there.

Shazam goes Sha-zip?
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/...being-renewed/

Why are they going after him? I thought these “Occupy Wall Street” types were against Big Pharma.

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