SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Director Reveals Movie's Place In DCU And Whether The Hero Will Eventually Return

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Director Reveals Movie's Place In DCU And Whether The Hero Will Eventually Return

Shazam! Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg addresses the movie's place in DC Studios' DCU, suggesting the Big Red Cheese could stick around if enough people turn out to watch the film this month.

By JoshWilding - Mar 01, 2023 06:03 AM EST

2023 is shaping up to be a strange year for the DCEU. After all, the shared world is on its last legs, with Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom all that's left of the previous era of storytelling before DC Studios reboots its comic book franchise as the DCU. 

As a result, it's hard to get excited about any of these movies, especially knowing they will likely be the last time we see these actors as their respective characters. 

Responding to an unenthused fan on social media, Shazam! Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg suggested there may well be a future for Zachary Levi's Big Red Cheese in the DCU...providing fans turn out to watch the sequel later this month. 

"He definitely won’t [return] if people don’t go see the movie," the filmmaker explains. "What I’ve been told is that there’s nothing in the Shazam films that contradict the future plans for DC. So the possibility for more Shazam is there and if that’s what you want your best bet is to go see the film." 

In a separate social media post on Instagram, Sandberg dismissed claims DC Studios has made sweeping changes to his movie and reiterated that the Shazam! sequel could find a place in the DCU.

"The finished movie was delivered end of October last year, so right before he officially began the job. Sure, sometimes productions can add scenes or do changes very last minute but nothing has changed on Shazam. It's a freestanding story and they've told me it doesn't affect or interfere with future DC plans so no reason to change anything."

Given the near record-low opening weekend projections for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, we have a feeling 2023 will likely mark the final time we see Shazam on screen for a while. Levi and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran are close friends, but all signs point to the DCU only making use of characters previously used by James Gunn in The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker

Shazam! Fury of the Gods arrives in theaters on March 17.

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/1/2023, 6:38 AM
GG
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 3/1/2023, 6:38 AM
In other words, we didn’t crossover with The Rock, so we good. Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing Shazam again, because nobody’s going to go see this.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 3/1/2023, 6:39 AM
Good honest response.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/1/2023, 6:41 AM
Man, sounds like he's seeing all these poor box office predictions and he's begging people to go see it lol.

Maybe he should have made something that looks more appealing? I don't know. As it stands, it looks pretty uninteresting to me. And Captain Marvel is one of my favorite DC characters. So that's a shame.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 3/1/2023, 8:51 AM
@CorndogBurglar -



Don’t blame me. You said it.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/1/2023, 10:11 AM
@philinterrupted - Haha. Shazam used to be called Captain Marvel. That's what I knew him as my whole life. Sometimes it slips out lol.
RolandD
RolandD - 3/1/2023, 12:06 PM
@CorndogBurglar - It’s what he should still be known as IMHO. He is the original Captain Marvel and DC could and should have stuck with the name. As I understand it, the only thing that they could not do is call the comic Captain Marvel and I believe it would have been the same for a movie. They did it for decades after they reintroduced the character in the 70s. The comic was called Shazam but the character was still Captain Marvel. Rant over.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 3/1/2023, 12:11 PM
@CorndogBurglar - I know, I was just being a jerk.
elgaz
elgaz - 3/1/2023, 6:48 AM
Nothing that contradicts future DCU? What about Cavill's version of Superman appearing at the end of the first Shazam film (ok, we didn't see his face as it wasn't Cavill on set, but it was plainly the Cavill-era costume from the Snyder films) - does this mean any new DCU Superman is a different version, and if so, is that because of reality changes brought about by the Flash movie?
Origame
Origame - 3/1/2023, 6:54 AM
@elgaz - I still think they're using the flash to facilitate the reboot. Makes sense considering they're still building off of what Gunn already added to the dceu, like peacemaker and waller.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 3/1/2023, 7:14 AM








JobinJ
JobinJ - 3/1/2023, 7:35 AM
This movie looks so corny
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 3/1/2023, 8:53 AM
Great, let's not go see it then. Recast, reboot, start over.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 3/1/2023, 9:02 AM
As expected of course....anyway....I heard the BO numbers for open weekend for this were really low.
DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 3/1/2023, 9:38 AM
The first movie had a boring Villain, and this movie just seems to have boring Villains that happen to be attractive...Looks like DC won't be getting a dollar from me until the sequel to The Joker
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 3/1/2023, 10:55 AM
What should we set as the global box office over-under for Shazam 2? $200 million? $150 million?
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