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San Diego Comic-Con brought us perhaps the best badortment of trailers in recent memory. Warner Bros. restored the faith of the fans in their DC superhero movies with a beautiful trailer Aquaman and an incredibly amusing look on Shazam! with Zachary Levi and director David F Sandberg.
In case you have not seen it yet, take a look …
This is remarkably true to the spirit of the character, and relies heavily on one particular rendition (right down to Philadelphia … sorry fans of Fawcett City).
So let's go. until, and start looking for each reference of DCEU and Easter egg in the trailer Shazam! !
We open on Asher Angel as Billy Batson. Like his comic counterpart, the big-screen Billy loves to wear a red top, although the old comic sweater has been replaced by a hoodie.
Billy has always been portrayed as an orphan, from the early days of comics. But that 's only when Geoff Johns and Gary Frank tackled the myth of Shazam that they showed him how to handle the family home life at home. This sequence with him and a social worker reflects that of this story.
Jack Dylan Grazer plays Freddy Freeman, Billy's best friend. Again, this draws more from the recent Johns / Frank's interpretation of comics than anything else. In the past, while Freddy was also an orphan, he and Billy did not know each other before Billy's superhero career.
Freddy, of course, has a heroic future to him. At least in comics.
Here is the rest of the family. Just in the middle is Grace Fulton as Mary. Comic fans know why this is a big problem.
Ian Chen, Eugene, Jovan Armand, Pedro. They are also characters who made their debut in the comics Johns / Frank
It seems that Freddy is a bit of a superhero enthusiast, which makes me think … is it really a corny pursuit in the world of the DCEU? ? Or is it just the equivalent of loving sport in "our" world?
Can any one do the title and the author of this book? I am too tired.
Instead of a comic book collection, Freddy collects newspaper clippings from superheroes, and he appears to be a big fan of Superman (note his love of "stealing" later in the trailer. cuts are that they seem to trace the Superman Bow of Man of Steel to Justice League .
Billy does not have time for the bullies, which is one of the reasons why he is considered quite pure … heart …
… being taken on a magical metro ride
These symbols are not an accident, and a great clbadic reference in comics
In the very first story of Shazam, in Whiz's 1939 Comic Book No. 2, Billy was taken into a mysterious subway car with magical rune marks. stopping "being similar to this one is a really nice touch.
The old wizard ier in his throne room on Rock C is a fairly faithful, but modernized, version of the original story of 1939.
wizard is a black man (played by Djimon Hounsou) , another touch of comics Johns / Frank.
Generally speaking, the wizard is a super-heroic champion of ancient times, and here he pbades on his powers to Billy Batson. Oh, and the name "Shazam?" Say that he bestows on Billy the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the endurance of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury.
Zachary Levi perfectly nails this moment of a kid realizing that he is in an adult body … especially one to jack
See the hood and the bright flash ? These are touches of the comics of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank (you guessed it)
So, that is …
… the idea that 39, it releases a kind of magic / electric energy
The fact that Freddy is wearing blue here and that it seems to have a connection with the magic of Shazam should not surprise anyone who knows comics. (Did I beat that bitch to death / in the ground again?)
Do you know what I like in this doping test scene? How practical it looks. It seems to me that they're hoisting Levi (or a stuntman) over cables (which are not visible), and that sounds like such relief after every flying hero has become a CGI missile or anything else. 39; another.
It also reminds me of the flying sequences of Shazam's former film series, The Adventures of Captain Marvel that were brilliant for 1941, and were completed with a mannequin on a zip line. This soap opera is one of the best of its kind, and I really need to talk about it in detail here
No, Mark Strong does not play Lex Luthor. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, our villain of the film and, historically, the greatest enemy of Shazam in comics.
In old comics, Sivana was only a mad scientist. To give him magical powers so that he can walk with our hero is something from the comics of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
Do you see this strange shirt that he wears as his bottom layer? This could be a nod to his original comic book appearance …
… just like the Christmas decor of the movie. It's just a very cool shot.
Billy and Freddy do not care about junk food because, well, because they can, they also release comics. It really looks like they've nailed the tone of this movie.
Shazam opens in theaters on April 5, 2019.
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