Shazam!
After months of fit photograph , we now have our first official photo of Zachary Levi Billy Batson ’s superhero alter ego , Shazam , alongside his friend Freddy Freeman ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) . But beyond giving us a good flavor at Shazam ’s full costume , the photo also substantiate something else that we ’ve gleaned from the set photos : David F. Sandberg’sShazam!movie will closely adapt the quality ’s New 52 origin story .
Though he ’s one of DC Comics ' better - known superheroes , Shazam was n’t in the beginning a DC character . He started his life as Captain Marvel , a superhero sport in the pageboy ofWhiz Comicsin the forties and 50 , and spent a couple of decades on hiatus after DC litigate Whiz Comics publisher Fawcett Comics , take Captain Marvel was a rip - off of Superman . Eventually DC licensed the character and , due to a encounter with Marvel Comics , rebranded Captain Marvel as Shazam . DC’sShazam ! # 1recreated Billy Batson ’s superhero origination virtually panel - for - panel fromWhiz Comics # 2 , and this line was retold again during DC 2011 New 52 relaunch . As both the dictated photos and this prescribed exposure show , the version of Shazam we ’ll see in the movie is the New 52 version .
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The photo show Shazam and Freddy in front of a public lavatory store with a smashed window , both of them cheerfully quaff down cans of soda ash . The scene is plucked straight from the Sir Frederick Handley Page of a Shazam backup story boast in the New 52Justice Leaguerelaunch , start inJustice League # 7and concluding inJustice League # 21 . In this restate , Billy is a troubler who initially pushes aside his surrogate sibling ' attempts to befriend him , and rather than praising him for being " pure of heart , " the whiz who gives him his power laments that his seeking enchantment bring him " a child , and a crappy one at that . " However , running out of time after the spill of Black Adam , and seeing that Billy has the potency to be a good somebody , the wizard grants him the ability to transform into an grownup superhero when he says the magic Son : " Shazam ! "
It ’s during Billy ’s first eventful outing as Shazam that the scene in the moving-picture show ’s first look photo takes spot . After meet up with Freddy and explaining his new baron , the two kids decide to try them out by … vandalizing a car , charge a woman a fee for saving her from a mugger , and then stealing money from an ATM . Yes , Billy ’s superheroics do n’t exactly get off to a grand start . Billy and Freddy go to a gismo storage to buy some beer with the steal John Cash , only to find that the convenience store is being gazump . They stop the robber , and out of gratitude ( and at Billy ’s request ) the shop possessor gives them all the junk food they can run . The first look photo clearly shows the backwash of this scene . According to the plot outline , the rest of the movie will also closely fall out Shazam ’s Modern 52 origins :
In the flick , Billy is assigned to a Modern surrogate home where he befriends comic record book superfan Freddy . One day , Billy ’s subway drive is interrupted by a mysterious Wizard whose been searching for ages to find oneself the right heir to inherit his powers . He uncover the teen ’s been selected to gain an assortment of power , and all it take is for Billy to say “ SHAZAM ! ”
That ’s not the only scene from the New 52 origin story that we ’ve caught a coup d’oeil of . Other fit photoshave point a fit with Shazam in a mall make full with Christmas palm , which is the microscope stage for his first fight with Black Adam . Of course , Black Adam wo n’t look in the movie ( since Warner Bros. is saving him for a soloBlack Adammovie , asterisk Dwayne Johnson ) , so in this setting Shazam will insteadfight Mark Strong ’s Sivana .
The fact that the motion-picture show is tight adapting this updated take on Shazam ’s origins bodes well . Having Billy be a troubled Thomas Kyd who initially abuses his index place up a strong arc for the case , and Grazer ( who win a mess of fans for his use as queasy hypochondriac Eddie in last year’sITremake ) is complete casting for Freddy Freeman , gift his strong comedy chop and talent for wide - eyed reaction to pathetic situations . Though some fans have been sceptical about this particular project , Shazam!has the potential to be one of the strongest DC Extended Universe launching yet .
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