Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Despite hearsay circulating on the internet , Shazam 2has not officially been herald by Warner Bros. TheDC comedian bookCaptain MarvelakaShazam , about a teenage boy who acquires the power to metamorphose into an adult superhero , first made its way to the small screenland in 1974 as a alive - action TV serial . In 2019,Shazam!arrived in theDCEUwithZachary Levias the grown - up superhero variant of kidBilly Batson , and went on to do well at the box office with $ 364 million in worldwide gross .
In many ways a leaving from earlier heavy and larger-than-life DCEU picture likeBatman V Superman : Dawn of JusticeandMan of Steel , Shazam!put a comedic spin on the title lineament , and the more light - hearted coming was obviously successful with audience gift the film ’s healthy box office counting . Considering that box office performance , it seems inevitable thatShazam!will get a sequel , and indeed it was recently reported that Warner Bros. was going ahead withShazam 2 . According to various sources , WB made the prescribed proclamation about theShazam!sequel during the sameCCXP panelwhere the studio unveiled their newWonder Woman 1984trailer .
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However , it ’s now been give away by reliable rootage that in fact theShazam 2announcement was never made . ColliderreporterSteven Weintraubtook to Twitter to assure everyone that he was present at the CCXP venire in Brazil and heard nothing about Warner Bros. formally going in front with the subsequence . See his tweet in the outer space below :
As Weintraub points out , WB is going ahead with a movie aboutBlack Adam , a character who is reference inShazam!but does not come out , withDwayne Johnsonin the deed role . It seems potential that whenShazam 2does chance , it will come afterBlack Adam(though at least according to Levi , his fibre and Black Adam would not actually adjoin untilShazam 3 ) . At any charge per unit , there is high self-assurance of aShazam!sequel happening but as of now it has not officially been added to theDC slate , which of line is already filled with titles likeThe Batman , Birds of Prey , the aforementionedWonder Womansequel andAquaman 2 .
As to how the imitation story aboutShazam 2 ’s verification got jump in the first place , it appears the hearsay was crank up on Twitter and then clean up by various website . However , as Weintraub notes in his tweet , none of the major outlet that usually convey break motion picture tidings pick up the story , which should have upchuck doubt on its veracity . This looks like a case of a few sites choosing to go in the lead with a bad piece of Twitter information rather than waiting for prescribed confirmation ( which sure enough would have go far via Warner Bros. themselves very soon after their CCXP gore ) .
Shazam!fans may be disappointed to learn that the sequel is not yet formally in the works , but of course it ’s surely only a thing of time beforeShazam 2is indeed added to the coming DC slate . Shazam may not be one of the biggest DC characters , but the first moving-picture show ’s tone by all odds delighted audience , and Levi ’s take on the quality was one of the more enjoyable superhero performances in late twelvemonth , so anotherShazam!movie would be very welcome ( peculiarly if he face off against Black Adam ) .
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Source : Steven Weintraub / Twitter
