Hope you were n’t wait to see a expectant - screen version of DC Comics ’ Captain Marvel — because the Shazam movie is very stagnant , according to its author . And he ’s point some digit of blame .
Writing on his web log about the death of the Shazam movie , John August knows just what stimulate the movie to pass through multiple order of payment , contradictory notes from the studio , and other course of twisting , leading to its tiresome death :
In retrospect , I can show to two summer Warner Bros. movies that I consider defined the real issue at hand : Speed Racer and The Dark Knight . The first flopped ; the 2nd crow . Given only those two exercise , one can understand why a studio might wish for their movies to be more like the latter . But to do so ignore the succeeder of Iron Man , which spent most of its running fourth dimension as a comedic origin write up , and the even more pertinent example of WB ’s own Harry Potter series .
With August initially describe his scene of Shazam as “ Like Big , but with superpowers , ” it ’s no surprise that a Warner Bros. looking for movies to be closer to The Dark Knight than Speed Racer ’s capricious optic candy , but that does n’t necessarily stop us from wistfully question what could have been .
Shazam ! It ai n’t happening.[John August ]
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