SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Director On Disappointing Box Office Performance: "I Saw Where This Was Heading"

@BreakTheCode - I Think Levi was plently charismatic and did just fine. As for his name, I think the first Shazam really should have launched him, but he didn't follow the Hemsworth path and kept low key, or just didnt get the bigger roles he went after.

Judging from the camrip I just watched the movie isn't terrible and kept some of the heart from the first one but yeah even wonder woman couldn't save this. Its funny because it looks set to finish before it even gets started...

Also I can kind of see the complaint from some fan bots about Gunn putting his wife in these movies 🤣

@BreakTheCode -
It's more the film being fairly standalone coupled with James Gunn self-sabotaging the entire DCEU by stating these films were irrelevant when the marketing was starting up. Such a moronic move from James Gunn effectively means nobody is really going to watch any of the films, what's the point when the Ezra Miller movie is going to reboot all of it?

It'd be like Kevin Feige directly coming out and saying "Secret Wars is a full reboot and you don't need to see anything prior" rather than just being an implied potential partial or full reboot.

As for the film itself, personally the appeal of the first was the juxtaposition of Billy and his alter ego. They aged up Billy and they removed the sense of him as a solitary hero by throwing in the Shazam family. In addition any appeal from him not being a solitary hero, e.g. a Shazam & Superman team-up movie or a Shazam & Superman Vs Black Adam movie that was teased fell apart when Cavill was let go in another moronic move from James Gunn.

It's incredibly difficult for the sequel to have ever had a chance because it's up against the person in charge of the franchise self-sabotaging it in every way he possibly can.

@BreakTheCode - John Cena was born for this role, and he was interested in it...freaking Dwayne Johnson and ego.

@DerekLake - It was originally suppose to, but opposite Avatar 2.

To be honest I think it would have done just fine along side it as a good alternative. It may not have gotten to number 1, but it would probably stuck in the top 5 for longer than its looking to now.

@DerekLake - for a lot of the country this was a holiday season. It's spring break for many kids.

@DerekLake - They knew it wasn't strong enough of a film to release during the holidays. That's why they dumped it in March. They knew it wasn't good enough for the summer or holiday movie seasons.