Shazam!
Hot on the heels of the officialShazam!trailer dropping last week at San Diego Comic - Con 2018 , a retro mashup trailer has hit the net bear homage to the seventies TV show of the same name . Next April’sShazam!movie succeed the same canonical storyline of the television show and the comedian that come before it , with an orphaned boy , Billy Batson , being given the ability to transubstantiate into an grownup superhero by saying a magic word .
In a bit of a shifting , however , Shazam!will also adopt Billy as heattempts to encounter his surviving family members . Asher Angel , a comparative newcomer who has a persona on the Disney Channel showAndi Mack , will play the role of Billy Batson , while formerChuckstar Zachary Levi will bet his counterpart adult superhero Shazam . Notable among the rest of the cast areMark Strong as the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivanaand Djimon Hounsou as the sorcerer who grants Billy his power .
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The retro trailer comes courtesy ofDarth Blender , a YouTube television channel give to create mashups for TV , comics , and movies in the pop civilisation realm . In the trailer , Darth Blender combines audio from the official SDCC trailer with video footage from theShazam!TV series that hightail it from 1974 - 1977 . While the actors ’ mouths in the video do n’t on the nose equal up with the sound recording rolling behind them , Darth Blender has select scenes from the show that accurately reflect a variation of what ’s being describe .
In the 1970s TV serial , Billy Batson , played by Michael Gray , transmute into the superhero Captain Marvel , play by Jackson Bostwick , to travel the country and help masses provoke by vicious forces . In the film total out next year , there will beno mention of Captain Marvel due to legal issueswith Marvel Comics , who brandmark the name Captain Marvel for their superhero in the time in which DC was n’t running Captain Marvel comic strip . The character and magic word that land him out , Shazam , will instead be one and the same . Shazam , which is an acronym for the six " immortal elderberry bush " ( Solomon , Hercules , Atlas , Zeus , Achilles , and Mercury ) , boasts superhuman strength and pep pill , among other abilities .
As DC and Warner Bros. Pictures continue to reframe their universe following the positive receipt of films likeWonder Womanover the somewhat disappointing returns from motion-picture show likeJustice League , it makes complete mother wit that they ’d pivot to a character who ’s been referred to as thecrazy or goofy rendering of Superman . It stay to be get a line ifShazam!can equal the ebullience and campiness of this retro trailer .
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