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'Shazam!' director David Sandberg promising DC's most lighthearted movie
- Thread starter Gordon Shumway
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talkingood
Member
Golden Age / Jeff Smith reboot inspired Shazam! please 
Shazam! should be fun!
Shazam! should be fun!
Earthbound64
Banned
Even if he isn't, everyone will pretend that he is.
Gnomepowered
Neo Member
I love that I can come into any thread and if Cipher is posting, I know before I read it that I will almost definitely have an opinion diametrically opposed to theirs. I don't mean that in a mean-spirited way, just that I look forward to seeing that avatar so I know I will read something that will make me roll my eyes, it is just so consistent, and part of what makes Gaf fun.
On topic, I can't imagine a Shazam movie with the tone of any of the DC movies to date feeling character appropriate. Just hope the superpower special effects are a little more convincing than Superman or Wonder Woman were to me. And hopefully a color palette where you can tell his costume is red, instead of muddy brown. If Supes is the all American boyscout all grown up, Captain Marvel is that boyscout as a kid, riding around in Superman's body. The movie should reflect the optimism and idealism that comes with being a kid.
Shin K Dash
Member
I can totally see John Cena playing Captain Marvel, with a sort man-child personality
as he is Captain Marvel with Billy's persona. John Cena honestly has great comedic timing too.
But I don't know if they're gonna go with that or if it will be split personalities (puke)
that honestly sucks...
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Ahhh, got it..
This is his pet tiger, Tawny.
This is also his pet tiger, Tawny.
Lighthearted! For the kids!
I thought they just said he wouldn't show up in Shazam and not that he was no longer playing Black Adam?
MHWilliams
Member
Gnomepowered
Neo Member
I was thinking about this, and came up with Ambush Bug, Plastic Man, and Justice League International as my prime bad choices.
Spiritual_Chaos
Banned
A few years back we were showing films at the same film festivals. And now he's directing Shazam... and I'm writing comments on GAF. Weird.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
I am actually totally cool with that. Shazam is a little kid in the body of basically Superman. It has a worm as a mad scientist and a talking tiger. This should be a kids focused movie and kids love John Cena. I can see John Cena playing a kid in a superhero's body.
elrechazado
Banned
Shazam seems so outdated, generic and cornball. The costume, the character, and especially the word Shazam. Might as well be called abracadabra.
What? The word Shazam originated from the comic.
MHWilliams
Member
I mean, that's partially the point.
elrechazado
Banned
It was invented in 1940, which is my point. It's crept into popular culture in other contexts during the last 70+ years and feels therefore like an old timey anachronism now.
Pilgrimzero
Member
For DC films "more light hearted" means only 100 or less innocent people will die directly from the actions of the hero.
Beer Monkey
Member
Big Red Cheese? Yes, please.
Also good excuse to reprint more classic C. C. Beck stories.
Also good excuse to reprint more classic C. C. Beck stories.
Nooooooooooo this is the 1 super hero movie I wanted to see.
Thus better not mean Black Adam will be lame.
Thus better not mean Black Adam will be lame.
Oh OK I'm saved then. I'm not interested in Shazam, just Black Adam
He didn't even go out of his way to assure.....
Yeah, because if anything, Shazam totes should be R-Rated. I wanna see Tawny rip out a guy's intestines.
Maybe two jars of piss this time!
Idgaf about Shazam. I thought this was the movie with Black Adam. But apparently it's not
Well one of Shazam's classic villains gets his power from Caligula
You're one of those people that demands an r-rated Spider-Man movie where he fights Carnage movie, aren't you...
Glass Rebel
Member
This is what happens when you make Superman a sad sack of shit.
NC-17 Maximum Carnage directed by Lars Von Trier.
Why are ppl jumping to R-Rated Lol? I never said that. Man of Steel and the Avengers are both Pg-13 but have completely different tones. (man of steel mostly sucks though, but that's not the point)
Even spiderman Homecoming is PG 13. I don't need an "adult " movie haha
Shin K Dash
Member
But Carnage is a good boy now
huh... I need to read more comics....
lastplayed
Member
Aww so no sadistic adventures of Captain Marvel? Where he literally throws people off buildings and drops engines on heads.
Bonus material: gunning down men
Bonus material: gunning down men
This is also his pet tiger, Tawny.
Lighthearted! For the kids!
Don't act like you don't know what you're doing trying to pass off Final Crisis panels as typical Marvel Family scenes. I see you.
If it's not Jacob Tremblay, I will be incredibly shocked.
Glass Rebel
Member
new carnage is what the kids these days call "kawaii~"
Damn i need this line to be said in a movie
Geoff Johns should literally never be allowed to touch anything Shazam related. Ever.
Here's how Geoff Johns books work: superheroes are happy, then bad stuff happens, people get fridged, usually (often) women. Any progress in the story is reset back to Johns' childhood era silver age nonsense, but now with his grittier overtones. People are killed for shock value, heroes fight for no reason other than melodrama, and, again, women tend to get it the worst. Johns is one of the worst things to ever happen to DC, and yeah, he's part of the reason that DC's been so Dark.
Fancyarcher
Member
Then get on casting your Captain Marvel / Shazam now. I'm not positive this film's getting made, unless you know, actually have a lead.
Agree, but at least he actually's a fan of the character, which is more then can be said for most of the writers who have touched the characters in the past-decade.
Agree, but at least he actually's a fan of the character, which is more then can be said for most of the writers who have touched the characters in the past-decade.
Have you read Curse of Shazam? It's like the exact opposite of all that.
WrenchNinja
Member
Just adapt Monster Society of Evil
Glass Rebel
Member
seriously tho
if you don't want this you ain't shit
if you don't want this you ain't shit
This version of the character is outdated?
Also no to John cena Channing Tatum please
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
This is the one time where I'd be okay with weird fan casting of a "TV actor." I remember when the rumor mill was spinning up Alan Ritchson for the lead. I actually really liked that. He did a good job playing a childish meathead on Blue Mountain State, which is kinda perfect for Shazam if they're playing the character up. He's also the mocap and voice of Raph in those new Ninja Turtle movies.
He's very TV, but I'd dig it.
He's very TV, but I'd dig it.
No, it's still used in DC multiverse stories like Thunderworld and Convergence - it just can't make it to the covers.
Is Geoff Johns writing this? If he is..........
The Billy we deserve.
No, that's the Billy Johns distorted to give his story a twisted sense of character progression, but he missed the point.
The whole point of Billy getting the powers is that he sets out to be the best person he can be and do the right thing even if he's powerless and outmatched, be it against common thugs bigger than him, or a guy he just saw beating freakin' Superman - so he's found to be deserving of getting the power to act on his nature, literally being given a body worthy of his spirit.
The Captain America classic story and especially movie pulled this off just fine with drugs - they just have to make sure the same principle applies through the magical side of the DC universe.
I can't be the only one tired of seeing Superman shoved into any attempt to actually use Captain Marvel... and the current movie version wouldn't really add all that much to a story with the tone they say they want to go for, especially considering the recent Superman's track record as far as public deeds and public perception in that universe goes...
Might as well go with Mr Myxlplyx instead as an antagonist...
The impression I keep getting is that Black Adam is the one Johns likes, so he ends up having to address young Batson's role in that character's history.
With that in mind, Rock and Black Adam's absence from a Captain Marvel movie might be the best possible thing to happen to it, since it leaves things open for other kinds of antagonists and tones.
I can't tell if the Cena people are for real or not... on one hand I want an established actor... on the other hand Cena cheesing it up would be perfect lol. Save Hammer for Lantern or the new Batman (if they decide to)
Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the character suiting himself to this....
I guess if that's how you want to read into some generic comments about the movie...
Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the character suiting himself to this....
I guess if that's how you want to read into some generic comments about the movie...
Ocarina_117
Banned
SO HYPED for this.
Would love to see Superman take a similar role Iron Man had in Spiderman.
Fleshing out and adapting Superman/Shazam the return of black adam! would have been great. We'd have a villain Shazam would need help with and one Superman could not take alone (weak to magic). Seeing the rock take on Superman would be cool.
Would love to see Superman take a similar role Iron Man had in Spiderman.
Fleshing out and adapting Superman/Shazam the return of black adam! would have been great. We'd have a villain Shazam would need help with and one Superman could not take alone (weak to magic). Seeing the rock take on Superman would be cool.