"Shazam!" Feature Film Pre-Release News & Discussion (Spoilers)

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"I think I'm going to be doing lots of flying around and firing electricity out of my hands.''

That...doesn't sound like Sivana at all :confused:.
 

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Mark Strong doesn't fit my idea of Sivana, at all, but I think he's good enough to surprise me. Now I'm thinking of how cool he could have been as Lex Luthor, but BVS didn't deserve a cool Lex.

He was such a good choice for Sinestro in such an underwhelming movie, too. I really hope this fares a lot better. I've wanted to see a Shazam! movie for a long time, long before Johns' reboot which they'll probably base a lot of it on, and if this movie doesn't hit, I don't foresee second chances.

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The idea of Sivana being involved in action scenes is weird at first, but I suppose the writers didn't want the main villain of a Shazam movie to be a scientist who couldn't fight.
 

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The idea of Sivana being involved in action scenes is weird at first, but I suppose the writers didn't want the main villain of a Shazam movie to be a scientist who couldn't fight.
Well, that's why you have a ton of cgi monsters. This would've been my choice:
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Or he was thinking of Black Adam instead of Sivana by mistake or he figures out how to steal Shazam's power later in the movie.
 

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Rather than Black Adam, the Wizard's mysterious underling might be some version of Mister Tawny (maybe based on the idea of his being a shape-shifting pooka?).
 

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I'm more familiar with him being a politician. I can't help but wonder if this script was written with Back Atom in mind.
I'm more used to him as your classical mad scientist:

"Curses! Foiled Again!"

But it does kind of feel like they're trying to make up for not being able to use Adam in this.
Might Sivana be both a scientist and a would-be sorcerer in this?
That would be a...weird combination :sweat:.

EDIT: David F. Sandberg confirms those call sheets are inaccurate.
 

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I'm more used to him as your classical mad scientist:

"Curses! Foiled Again!"

But it does kind of feel like they're trying to make up for not being able to use Adam in this.

That would be a...weird combination :sweat:.

EDIT: David F. Sandberg confirms those call sheets are inaccurate.
It wouldn't be any more strange than any other attempt in comics or movies to meld science and magic. However, I also hope that the description proves false.
 
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