Out of both the trailers DC and Warner Bros. premiered at Comic-Con, I was the most impressed with Shazam! I love Aquaman, but it really does look just like more of the same that we got from Justice League. I have high hopes for it since it's being directed by Conjuring Universe mastermind James Wan. However, Shazam! feels like a light-hearted super hero romp very much in the vein of the classic Superman films that put DC comic book movies on the map in the 1970s and 1980s.
Check out the Shazam! trailer for yourself below. Doesn't it have a refreshing air of innocence and whimsy that has been missing in the DC Cinematic Universe since... well... Batman Begins? It looks fun, silly, and entertaining without being irreverent to the source material.
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Asher Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).
Shazam! is directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Darren Lemke.
SHAZAM! - Only in theaters April 2019
