The upcoming Shazam sequel finally has a title and one very surprising cast member that just turned this movie into the punchline a joke that's been running on the internet for decades!
Following major course-corrections, the DCEU has shown us just how fun it could be with the likes of Aquaman. And now we have Shazam!, the comic book universe's next huge step forward. A step that leaps ahead like a lightning bolt of magic!
When it comes to Shazam!, the upcoming latest entry in the DC Comics Extended Universe, it always looked like pure fun based on the trailers. As it turns out, it's not just fun, but also damn good. How good? Well, better than any other DCEU film, that's how!
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam, courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them!
For DC’s Shazam, which is basically what happens when somebody makes a Superman movie where the main character isn’t a sulking superhuman whose greatest strength is creeping people out with a CGI top lip, that wardrobe cost was pretty high. In fact, it cost the better part of $1 million to make each of the Shazam costumes. Each of them, as the flick wound up with ten super-suits for the film shoot.
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam, courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test?
Comic books are not all serious business. You may be mistaken for thinking otherwise though thanks to most of the self-serious previous DCEU movies. That looks to be changing now as the films appear to be adopting looks more colourful faithful to the source material.
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