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SHAZAM 2019 MOVIE

If one kid-friendly movie tanked, Warner Bros. blockbuster Speed Racer bombing that previous summer.

August chalked this up to not only The Dark Knight making grim n’ gritty superheroes in vogue but also the Warner Bros.

That idea, of abandoning the kid angle of the Shazam mythos, is a staggering miscalculation of the entire appeal of this DC superhero. was keen to make sure that the feature was darker and gritty, with the studio being especially keen on aging up protagonist Billy Batson to make this happen. at this point in his career thanks to his work on Get Smart. Segal was a veteran of Adam Sandler comedies like Anger Management, 50 First Dates, and The Longest Yard, and he was in the good graces of Warner Bros. This included an adaptation of Shazam, which started life in the late 2000s under the direction of filmmaker Peter Segal. With no ticking clock looming over the company’s head, not to mention box office misfires like Superman Returns and Catwoman looming as a harbinger of how far awry DC movies could go, it’s no surprise DC adaptations moved at a snail’s pace in the 2000s. had to approve getting made at a rival studio). owning DC Comics, there was no chance these characters would make the leap to a rival studio (save for the occasional fluke like Red, which Warner Bros. If they didn’t make films about Ghost Rider, the X-Men, or other characters, those rights would revert to Marvel or (in the pre- Iron Man days) potentially another studio. The vast majority of Marvel characters had their film rights sold to competing studios like 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, or Sony/Columbia Pictures. Partially, this was because of different approaches to film rights. While adaptations of Swamp-Thing and Steel had appeared in the final decades of the 20th century, DC was a bit slower in the 2000s to embrace every superhero in its catalog the way so many Marvel superheroes were now gracing multiplexes. For years, film adaptations of DC Comics characters weren't exactly lining up the screens of movie theaters across the globe.