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The brand newShazam!trailerthat debuted at San Diego Comic - Con has disprove a popular fan possibility about Billy Batson andJustice League . Director David F. Sandberg ’s superhero fantasy ushers in a brighter , more fun DC movie universe , carry on the pronounced change in tone that began in last class ’s superhero team - up . Shazam!will also give fans the young POV of kids who grew up in Zack Snyder ’s ominous DCU when 14 - year old Billy Batson ( Asher Angel ) gains the sorcerous power to transmute into the superhero Shazam ( Zachary Levi ) .
Unfortunately , Justice Leaguewasn’t the goliath strike DC Films had hoped it would be , and many pointed the blame at the obviousreshoots by Joss Whedonthat modify Zack Snyder ’s original tone . One of those reshot view became the hatchway of the film , where Superman is in short interviewed by an unseen boy on a electric cell phone tv camera . However , the upcoming release ofShazam!sparked a pop online lover theory that the offscreen boy was Billy Batson himself , explaining the inspirations for Shazam .
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The theory argued that DCEU Batson , like his amusing Bible similitude , was a son reporter , so it ’s natural he would question the Man of Steel . Also , touch Superman would be what exhort Batson when he afterwards gains the magic power to become the World ’s Mightiest Mortal .
The new preview refutes that fan possibility all told . The wayShazam!is structure , Billy Batson has never meet Superman and does n’t even care about superheroes before meetin the Wizard ( also yell Shazam ) . When he ’s put in , Billy is an orphan juvenile delinquent who has pass away from surrogate homes in six county . He ’s put in a newfangled surrogate family where he suffer Freddy Freeman ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) , a handicapped son his age who is an expert on the real - life superheroes who survive in their world . Freddy even has acollection of Justice League merchandiselike a true fanboy .
In fact , after Billy is transform into Shazam and he ’s desperately stress to figure out what he can and should do , he turns to Freddy for help and result specifically because Freddy is the only person he knows"who hump anything about this cap reformist stuff . “This is also an interesting line ; despite Superman , Batman , et al being existent , it seems like most people in the world simply carry on with their lives as best they can . This is different from what rooter meet inSpider - Man : Homecomingwhere the Avengers were a veritable subject of teenager discussion . Billy clearly was unknowing of superheroes before he short became one - but Freddy certainly is n’t .
So , if Billy was n’t the male child talking to Superman inJustice League’sworst fit , could it have been Freddy holding the cellphone camera ? Did the Man of Steel save Freddy ’s life in the past , which bend him into a superfan ( was this also the reason Freddy became handicapped ) ? After all , Freddy pointedly tells Billy that"heroes fly"because Superman can fly and that ’s who Freddy believes is the ultimate hero .
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Shazam ! ’s trailer rightly focused on present Billy and his grand journey , but the film should also shed twinkle on Freddy ’s backstory , so perhaps he could be finally revealed as having met the Man of Steel after all , giving acceptance to the sports fan theory - but just in a different way .
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