Shazam Dropped

According to Cinematical, Captain Marvel speaks his magic word for the last time.

August says the project is now dead in the water after several re-writes, most of which came about after the studio wanted him to take the film from a lighter action-comedy to something much darker (a la The Dark Knight). And regarding the recent news that Segal would be directing, August notes that “press releases often have little relationship to reality.” He does admit,
though, that the movie may still happen … just not with him onboard and not anytime soon.

Rob and I both agree that neither side is right on this issue. It shouldn’t be made fun of nor be dark in tone. Warners better come to a conclusion if they want to compete with the next batch of films Marvel Studios has planned.