SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Director On Why Certain Characters Were Relegated To Post-Credits Scene - SPOILERS

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Director On Why Certain Characters Were Relegated To Post-Credits Scene - SPOILERS

In a new interview, Shazam! Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg explains why certain characters in the movie only showed up in the post-credits scene. Spoilers ahead...

By MarkCassidy - Mar 17, 2023 08:03 AM EST

If you haven't seen Shazam! Fury of the Gods yet, major spoilers from this point on.

At the end of the first Shazam! movie, Mark Strong's incarcerated Doctor Sivana is visited by Mister Mind, a super-intelligent alien caterpillar, who proposes an alliance. It was generally assumed that these two would team-up and seek revenge on Billy Batson and his family in the sequel, but the Daughters of Atlas ended up on villain duty.

Sivana and Mister Mind do appear in Fury of the Gods' post-credits scene, but the sequence is basically an excuse to poke fun at the fact that the previous film's stinger didn't go anywhere!

"We did initially talk about having Mister Mind and Sivana in this one too," director David F. Sandberg tells Total Film. "It was actually Mister Mind’s plot to bring the gods here, but it quickly turned out to be too much movie to have that whole plot in there as well."

Sandberg was also asked for his thoughts on the notion of "superhero fatigue," and had the following response.

Whether audiences are getting a bit tired of superhero movies is obviously open for debate, but either way, the Shazam! sequel may have a hard road ahead at the box office. Opening weekend projections are poor (domestically, at least), and the movie has now dropped to "rotten" status on Rotten Tomatoes.

Have you been to see Fury of the Gods yet? If so, what did you think? You can check out our review of the movie here.

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VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 3/17/2023, 9:09 AM
Terrible writing fatigue. ☑

TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 3/17/2023, 10:36 AM
@VictorAlonzo - People loved Cocaine Bear. COCAINE. BEAR.
People are just tired of super heroes.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 3/17/2023, 12:22 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - I thought cb was good at being gruesome and ridiculous.

It didn't try too hard, had no underlying agenda and reminded me of an era prior to social media & telephones.

CBMs do the opposite of that. Try-hard, technologically advanced (yet still lacking quality) cgi, with layers of femdom, paint by numbers
🦬💩.

I'm not tired of superheroes. I'm tired of seeing people who hate men get the chance to 💩 on me via Superheroes.

I bought comics for 30+ years. I've watched action movies for even longer.

Get back to tough. Offensive. Strong leads. Violent villains. Unavoidable challenges. Thinking. Real action. Better cgi. Make 💩 make sense again. People will return.

VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 3/17/2023, 9:10 AM






FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 3/17/2023, 9:24 AM
These run-of-the-mill superhero movies don’t cut it anymore. We’ve seen the culmination of a shared universe, so the appeal of all that is over as well (good luck DCU 2.0). People are bored, so now they’ve either gotta make a damn good movie, or they’ll come under intense scrutiny. And that goes for Marvel and DC.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/17/2023, 9:31 AM
@PlusUltra - yeah, there's just too much to choose from. And anything that can't set itself apart from the rest, is just not gonna cut it anymore for me.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 3/17/2023, 10:09 AM
@PlusUltra -


Feels like Gunn is coming into the Cbm space alittle too late.



Kinda like that guy that brings food and alot of beer to the party as people are leaving the party😑
bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/17/2023, 9:28 AM
This'll be the first cbm movie I won't be seeing in theaters, I can wait for HBO Max lol
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/17/2023, 9:30 AM
Think they should've thrown that it was Mister Mind calling in the daughters.

Now there is a high chance of Shazam being rebooted, meaning we won't be seeing Mister Mind at all anymore. Atleast that way, we could've had some connective tissue.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 3/17/2023, 9:39 AM
@bkmeijer1 - mr mind was still the best end credit cameo in any superhero movie! I would’ve been there day one if he was in the film.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/17/2023, 9:51 AM
@EZBeast - yeah, really think it's a shame they didn't follow up on that.

My guess is Shazam 3 was always gonna be featuring Black Adam, so I don't really see how Mr. Mind would've fit in there.
Forthas
Forthas - 3/17/2023, 9:50 AM
The creative decisions at DC are bad beyond comprehension. I still can't get over the fact they had the embodiment of Lex Luthor under contract for DC in Mark Strong and the cast Jesse Eissenberg in the role.
narrow290
narrow290 - 3/17/2023, 9:51 AM
Saw it last night. Had some corny-ass parts but it was a fun time. The end credit scene was cool
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 3/17/2023, 10:10 AM
People aren't getting tired of superhero movies. People are getting tired of the superhero movie of the week.

The Infinity War and Endgame two-punch really set the bar high on what these shared universe films can be. And after COVID, people are more picky about what brings them to the theater. People have wised up to how the sausage is made, and it's pretty clear that the goal is more about churning as many of these out as possible that adhere to an easy formula.

I think superhero movies taking a significant box office hit is what's needed to get things back to a more innovative state.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 3/17/2023, 10:39 AM
@SheepishOne - But what you are describing is...people tired of super hero movies.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 3/17/2023, 2:17 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - I might not have conveyed it well, but what I meant was people are tired of mediocre formulaic superhero movies. People still enjoy the innovative and unique stuff.

I bet The Batman 2 does incredibly well. Same for The Boys on Amazon.

There's just unfortunately too many mediocre superhero films. And when people stop turning up to see them, studios take even less risks with how they're made.

I don't disagree that people are growing tired of superhero movies, but I think it has more to do with the recent quality of superhero movies, rather than the concept as a whole.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 3/17/2023, 2:39 PM
@SheepishOne - Pretty much, yes, they are tired of the classic comic book movie.
Movies deconstructing the genre like Logan or The Batman, or shows like The Boys show that there's still a market for these movies, but not the generic stuff we've been seeing for the past 15 years...and making them bigger and adding nostalgic cameos wont save them either.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 3/17/2023, 3:11 PM
@TheHumanSpider2 - Agreed. Nostalgic cameos really only work the one time, and for only certain characters. It's a heavy card to play, which is why I wish Marvel and DC would only do it in the right movies, instead of using it as a novelty concept to get people to watch.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 3/17/2023, 10:38 AM
Poor bastard just had the bad luck of making this movie when people are done with super hero movies...and then Warner gave it one of the worse marketing campaigns ever.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/17/2023, 4:41 PM
"It was actually Mister Mind’s plot to bring the gods here, but it quickly turned out to be too much movie to have that whole plot in there as well."

So cut the gods out then! Give us the actual Shazam/Captain Marvel villains that were promised in the last one, not the fake bullshit you pulled out of your ass because you couldn't be bothered to read the comics.
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