Sounds like they are sort of trying to do a Dark Knight Returns-esque thing. Not necessarily bad and likely something Affleck can reasonably pull off, but if he does it is just going to magnify how bad Cavell and pretzel girl are.
With all of Dwayne Johnson's teasing as of late, you'd have thought he was playing Shazam himself. But this morning, Johnson confirmed via tweet that he'll be playing Black Adam in DC Comics' upcoming Shazam movie, who in the comics was originally a villain before becoming more of an antihero in recent years (Johnson more or less confirmed the latter interpretation via hashtag). According to Variety, Darren Lemke (Jack the Giant Slayer, Goosebumps) is penning the script. No news on who will play Shazam himself, but why not Dwayne Johnson as well? And also Dwayne Johnson as the love interest. And maybe write in a B plot about the Scorpion King and fanny packs for good measure.
Shia Labeouf is going to be Billy BastionI think it's a huge mistake to announce the casting of The Rock as Black Adam before announcing the casting of Shazam himself.
To me it's sounds like it will be a star vehicle for The Rock, not for whoever plays Shazam.
Unless they plan on having him in all Shazam movies, or become a big bad for the DC Movie Universe, they'll have trouble selling a Shazam movie without him. Unless they manage an insane casting for Shazam.
It's an excellent casting though.
That's a shame cause Captain Marvel has always been one of my favorite characters in the more recent animated series like JLA/U and Young Justice.ever since ww3, who would even like shazam? black adam is where all the action is. shazam/captain marvel is embarrassingly dumb. for those that don't know picture superman but dumb-er-er. well they can use the excuse he's "sometimes" a kid? but he's just dumb.
Honestly, if they just made 90 minutes of that (the DCUO trailer, that is), I would pay $10 to see it without even viewing a single preview.Also Black Adam kills Flash and Green Lantern at the same time in the trailer for DCUO, which is pretty fucking amazing.
whats worse is, batman has been trying to come up with a plan to "get" superman for years in, in justice. batman has to basically sacrifice friends, civillians, and use the one human emotion superman has learned in all of this, regret, and regret manifests itself in the angriest bitch alive, black canary, (since superman off'd oliver) staring superman right in his face.yeah, writers having Billy use the lighting bolt as his MAIN attack is just fucking idiotic.
Billy.. you were in space. how would have that even worked? Ganthet just saved your life..
"Up and at them!"If you bros have not read the recent Black Atom mini series its a great read.
LOL good catch."Up and at them!"
"Up and Atom!!"
"Up and AT them!"
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