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Shazam Is The Next DC Film To Shoot
Lightning Strikes Again
♦ November brings Justice League and next year we shall have Aquaman from Warner Bros. Over at Dark Horizons, it has been revealed that the next DC film to shoot after Justice League and Aquaman is Shazam…
Filmmaker David F. Sandberg, currently still doing the rounds for Annabelle Creation, says that not only does his film adaptation of the DC Comics title Shazam actually have a finished script, but “it’s the next DC movie to shoot” following the currently in reshoots Justice League and currently in production Aquaman.
Asked by Filmriot (via HH) what Shazam/Captain Marvel comics he’s been using for inspiration from, Sandberg says that he’s been going through all of them:
“I’m taking it all in. Some of those really old ones are quite fun, when he’s, like, fighting Hitler. Stuff like that. No, cause he’s been around since the 40s for, like, as long as Superman.
So there’s a lot to read and that’s also interesting because he sort of has a couple of different origin stories or a couple of different takes on it. You know, you have the most recent sort of Geoff Johns version and then you have Ordwell version and then you have those really old versions.”
He says that the decision to ditch nemesis Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is so that the focus is solely on its young hero Billy Batson:
“There’ve been variations of the script, like before I came along, where… you know, variations where Black Adam was in and out and, you know. But now, this is about Shazam.”
“Shazam” does not have a release date currently, though previously a 5 April 2019 date has been mooted.
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