Editorial Staff
The next DC film to shoot won’t be “The Batman”, “Gotham City Sirens” or “The Flash”, it’ll be the long-gestating “Shazam”, director David F.Sanberg tells Filmriot.
The “Annabelle Creation” director says he’s got his head buried in comic books – both “Shazam” and “Captain Marvel” comics – when he’s not fulfilling promo duties on the horror prequel.
“I’m taking it all in. Some of those really old ones are quite fun, when he’s, like, fighting Hitler. Stuff like that. No, cause he’s been around since the 40s for, like, as long as Superman.
So there’s a lot to read and that’s also interesting because he sort of has a couple of different origin stories or a couple of different takes on it. You know, you have the most recent sort of Geoff Johns version and then you have Ordwell version and then you have those really old versions.”
Sanberg says the decision not to have Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam in this movie is so the focus can be on Billy Baston.
“There’ve been variations of the script, like before I came along, where… you know, variations where Black Adam was in and out and, you know. But now, this is about Shazam.”
“Shazam” is due April 5, 2019.
