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.