Zachary Levi attends the World Premiere of ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ in Westwood, CA. Photo: Eric Charbonneau.
Zachary Levi opens up concerning the superhero movie ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ and his future with the franchise. In an interview with The FilmUp Podcast, the actor acknowledges the criticism from film critics, “I don’t know what the future holds for it all because, unfortunately, the second movie was not well received,” Levi says of the low critics’ rating, “The audience score is still quite good, but the critics’ score was very oddly and perplexingly low, and people were insanely unkind.”
Currently, ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ stands at 49% from critics on Rotten Tomoates and an viewers rating of 86%. For comparability, the 2019 ‘Shazam!’ is licensed Fresh on the aggregator web site, with a 90% critics’ rating and 82% viewers rating. The movie grew to become accessible on digital lower than a month after its theatrical launch, grossing $133 million worldwide. The manufacturing price range for ‘ Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ was $125 million.
The actor eludes to explanation why the sequel didn’t carry out in addition to its predecessor:
“I think even just the world, from the first movie to the second movie, the world has shifted so much. Social media has shifted so much. Hate, online hate and haters and trolls, and factions and all that has just gotten more galvanized in its toxicity. I think there are people who genuinely, unfortunately, want to destroy certain projects because they don’t like them, or they don’t like me, or they don’t like other people involved in them or whatever.”
Levi questions whether or not or not he’ll have the ability to return as Shazam within the new DCU however stays hopeful, “I have no idea where we go from here. I just hope that or believe that history will show… it will be one of those things that people will go back, people will watch ‘Fury of the Gods’ on home streaming or on a plane or whatever, and it will be this movie that they heard so much s**t about and then they will be like, ‘Well, wait a minute.’ “
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Uncertain Future For Shazam
(L to R) Adam Brody as Super Hero Freddy, Zachary Levi as Shazam, Meagan Good as Super Hero Darla and D.J. Cotrona as Super Hero Pedro in New Line Cinema’s action adventure ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods,’a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2021 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC.
The first movie was released in 2019, prior to James Gunn and Peter Safran being named as co-chairman for DC. While revealing their plans for future projects, Gunn and Safran did not include Shazam in the first phase, named “Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.”
Zachary Levi just isn’t the one actor with an unsure future within the DCU. Fellow actors who held titular characters resembling Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson are unlikely to return to reprise their roles. While sure superheroes have made cameo appearances in latest movies resembling ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ and ‘The Flash’ it doesn’t cement their return to the DCU since its revamp. We have but to see a brand-new film launched beneath the reign of James Gunn and Peter Safran, aside from what has been specified by the preliminary roadmap promising ‘Superman: Legacy,’ ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,’ ‘Brave and the Bold,’ ‘Swamp Thing,’ and ‘The Authority.’
(L to R) Ross Butler as Super Hero Eugene, Adam Brody as Super Hero Freddy, Grace Caroline Currey as Super Hero Mary, Zachary Levi as Shazam, Meagan Good as Super Hero Darla and D. J. Cotrona as Super Hero Pedro in New Line Cinema’s motion journey Shazam! Fury of the Gods,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures launch. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2022 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC.
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