Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019

[NamakFiskKa]

3 hours ago, Bane Cook said:

This movie is going to be so good and people are sleeping on it(not necessarily people on this forum). Calling it now. 

I'm just concerned it might not turn to Cap Underpants rather Spider-Man Homecoming on the BO side

[Krissykins]

Ha that’s great casting, he was fantastic in IT. 

[Fancyarcher]

Good choice. He even kinda looks like Freddy / Jr.

Edited December 7, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[Spidey Freak]

There were rumors floating around that they would make Billy Batson differently abled but Jack's character Freddy is the original character from the comic with the disability.

 

He too gets the transform-into-a-superhero powers but dunno if they are including it in this first film.

Either ways, great role for Jack Dylan Grazer. Hope this movie delivers.

[MrGamer]

The casting for this has been really good so far. Definitely getting more excited for this.

[TheMovieman]

Levi at some gaming awards show the other night. Getting buff.

 

[Steele131]

 

[El Gato]

Mary and Darla are next! I love the Shazam family and their story! A bunch of foster kids adopted by Hispanic parents who are there for one another. Could play very well with families if done right!

[Jonwo]

Looks like Shazam is going to be more family friendly compared to past DC films which isn't too surprising considering the source material. One of the things it has going for it is that it's unconnected to Justice League. 

[kowhite]

Ok, I’m not reading this thread or googling things.  The concept doesn’t immediately sell me, so can I get an earnest explanation...sell me...why should I be excited about this?

 

I want to be.  Tell me.  I’ll know if you quote me...GO!  Please?

[TheDarkKnightOfSteel]

3 hours ago, Jonwo said:

Looks like Shazam is going to be more family friendly compared to past DC films which isn't too surprising considering the source material. One of the things it has going for it is that it's unconnected to Justice League. 

It's actually connectedvto JL and Cavill is rumored to appear.

[Spidey Freak]

1 hour ago, kowhite said:

Ok, I’m not reading this thread or googling things.  The concept doesn’t immediately sell me, so can I get an earnest explanation...sell me...why should I be excited about this?

 

I want to be.  Tell me.  I’ll know if you quote me...GO!  Please?

Superman by way of Chris Columbus circa 90's (and Sorcerer's Stone)

Edited December 13, 2017 by Spidey Freak

[Fancyarcher]

2 hours ago, kowhite said:

Ok, I’m not reading this thread or googling things.  The concept doesn’t immediately sell me, so can I get an earnest explanation...sell me...why should I be excited about this?

 

I want to be.  Tell me.  I’ll know if you quote me...GO!  Please?

Spidey said it best, but it's basically like Superman if he was a literal big blue boy scout, and had magic powers. 

Edited December 13, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[NamakFiskKa]

4 hours ago, kowhite said:

The concept doesn’t immediately sell me, so can I get an earnest explanation...sell me...why should I be excited about this?

Kid transforming literally into a superhero. 

 

Tons of kids merchandising contracts ensues. 

[Arlborn]

7 hours ago, kowhite said:

Ok, I’m not reading this thread or googling things.  The concept doesn’t immediately sell me, so can I get an earnest explanation...sell me...why should I be excited about this?

 

I want to be.  Tell me.  I’ll know if you quote me...GO!  Please?

He's cute and he's a superhero.

 

Next question please. I'm here all day!

 

Edited December 13, 2017 by Arlborn

[Krissykins]

Superman meets Big.

 

I’d never really heard of Shazam before, so he’s definitely Ant-Man level D list. 

 

I think this could do well, seems a bit different to the other superhero stuff. 

[Arlborn]

4 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Superman meets Big.

 

I’d never really heard of Shazam before, so he’s definitely Ant-Man level D list. 

 

I think this could do well, seems a bit different to the other superhero stuff. 

My father actually knows more about him than I do. As in, from his childhood. That makes me wonder, I gotta ask him some time how exactly he knows him since he's never really read comic books.

[Spidey Freak]

1 minute ago, Arlborn said:

My father actually knows more about him than I do. As in, from his childhood. That makes me wonder, I gotta ask him some time how exactly he knows him since he's never really read comic books.

Shazam wasn't a DC character originally. He was from a company called Fawcett Comics that shut shop in 1953. Apparently back in the old days, he was as big a character as Superman himself. I think there were newspaper strips featuring him, or some general comic digests at the newspaper store, which is the reason many older individuals who aren't into Marvel/DC stuff are aware of him.

 

Of course, there is also the fact that until 2011 he was not called Shazam but Captain Marvel. DC understandably didn't want to use him a lot since it felt like they were inadvertently advertising their competition.  But since Marvel themselves weren't utilizing their own Captain Marvel (back then Mar-Vell and then an African-American woman named Monica Rambeau) all that much, DC's Captain Marvel hung around a long while without a name change.

 

It was only after Marvel's push to get their own "Wonder Woman" by promoting the character of Carol Danvers from her "Ms. Marvel" moniker to "Captain Marvel" and pushing her comic by that title was when DC decided to drop the name for Billy's alter ego and instead go by Shazam, the word Billy has to use to transform.

[Krissykins]

1 hour ago, Spidey Freak said:

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Of course, there is also the fact that until 2011 he was not called Shazam 

 

I had no idea it was that recent! 

 

[Wonder89]

Looks interesting