Hey youtubers it's Charlie so everybody was asking me to do a shazam Black Adam
video it's still going to be one of the big justice league films Warner Brothers
confirmed in the last day that they are still working on it
the rock is still attached to be Black Adam this is to break down what's going
on with that will they announced that it is connected to the larger DC Universe
if you guys didn't know that before I mean you kinda have to assume that all
DC movies that are being made now are inside this DC Universe but some of them
will be more connected than the others like think of the core Justice League
members that we've already met those films were incredibly closely linked
even suicide squad but thus far Suicide Squad has been the only introduction to
magic in the DC Universe and it's very supernatural kind of magic but they've
been using the blanket term for anybody with any kind of powers no matter where
they got their powers no matter how they work they've been calling them all
metahumans so even though it sounds kind of weird they do call Superman a
metahuman in Suicide Squad so Billy Batson who becomes shazam, black adam, anybody
from that area the comics would also be considered a metahuman according to
amanda waller and the government but a lot of you might remember a couple years
ago when they were just like getting things rolling with batman vs superman
they announced that they signed the rock as Black Adam in the shazam movie and
they'd begun development so cut to a couple years later and it's like okay so
it's been a couple years but we haven't heard anything is the movie dead what's happening
they said they're still developing it with the rock but they haven't really
announced to release date
let's say that it's more real the movie is more real than the Marvel Inhumans
movie because Kevin foggy took it off the Marvel schedule but he's like we're
still working on it it's still happening but it's not on the schedule so it's
like well how much is it happening? so you have to take it with a grain of salt
so inhuman movie at Marvel is happening
Shazam movie is happening at DC just to be determined in terms of release date
and they have not casted their Billy Batson yet that's the next most
important thing because I think a lot of people don't realize there's really like
three important characters that they need to cast for the movie and they've
already cast Black Adam he's one he's the big villain he'll be a lot of fun
he very much looks the part but they need to cast the young Billy Batson
who's like a ten-year-old kid then they need to cast his adult self who
will be the one walking around as shazam when Billy Batson says his power word so
it sounds like they're looking for the right story and then waiting for the
right kid to come along so just consider it the same way you would consider the
Booster Gold movie there's a booster gold movie that they're making it will
be part of the DC Universe but it's it's kind of like a comedy type film so it's
not a perfect fit with the other movies that they made so far but it's scheduled
for $MONTH 2018 release date that might get pushed a little bit depending on how
development continues but there's a person who is working on the script in
fact the person that is writing the Booster Gold movie is actually one of
the writers for the flash TV show who is developing it with greg berlanti so
that's a whole other thing if you have absolutely no idea who the shazam
character is he's Billy Batson and this is where it gets a lot of fun they could
have a lot of fun with the way they weave the character in with the Justice
League in the future so Billy Batson stumbles upon the wizard Shazam the rock
of eternity who is kind of like the guardian of all magic on earth so he
imbues Billy Batson with this power to do good so he has the ability to call
down the power of a bunch of different gods you know kind of based on the Greek
pantheon
so like he has the speed of hermes so he can be as fast as the flash he has
magical lightning like Zeus he can fly he has a number of different powers that
he can use each at any given time but he has to like specifically called down
those powers but they're activated when he says his power word the word is
shazam so he says shazam and boom struck by the magical lightning and what it does is it
transforms him into his ideal self and his ideal self is an adult so when he's
walking around as shazam he looks like he would if he were an adult but he's like
a ten-year-old kid walking around in the body of his adult self so the fun part
is is that his adult self looks very similar to Clark kent/superman so I
think it'd be really fun for the movie to play with the idea that Superman is
like the god of Earth everybody either worships him or hate him and thinks he's
a demon so Billy Batson ten-year-old kid like a typical ten-year-old kid would
probably idealizes Superman in wants to be like him so when he activates the
power of shazam wouldn't it be awesome if he looked a little bit like Superman
in the movie now obviously they can't have Henry
travel places and you can't make the metaphor that literal but it can be
someone who looks relatively like Henry Cavill so it's like oh of course a
ten-year-old kid in this universe would probably love the idea of Superman and
think that he's the best thing ever when your ideal self look kind of like
Superman so let me know in the comments how do you think they're going to
connect the shazam movie to the Justice League movie because they've already
done supernatural things because of suicide squad so it's not super hard to
connect them but there has to be a reason for billy batson to work with the
Justice League so that means that the rock Black Adam in the movie will have
to do something that's so big and terrible that it will get the attention
of Batman and the Justice League like oh my god what is happening in this part of
the world there's this giant magical battle ag Batman will have to see
Billy Batson as shazam take black adam down and be like okay
he was also inspired by Superman sacrifice so we should probably get him
on our team before something terrible happens to him because remember Amanda
Waller's comment during Suicide Squad she said we need to get these metahumans
on our team before somebody else picks them up as if the other governments of
the world like the not-so-nice governments of the world and other evil
organizations are trying to build their own teams of metahumans so I think what
will happen is that you know whatever goes that whatever the plot they want to
use for this shazams movies going to be it'll just get the attention of the
Justice League I think Superman would actually be a good cameo on that film
too you have Batman cameo and some of the other films Superman should cameo and
some of the other films too but i think he works better in films of more
powerful people like he would work really well in the Aquaman movie, Shazaam
is another one too because shazam is kind of like the Superman of magic any kind
of looks like him too in the comics so let me know
do you think that the shazam actor like the person as the adults shazam should
look kind of like Henry Cavill's version of superman so hopefully they'll have a
little bit of fun with that but if there was any confusion shazam movie still
happening will totally connect to justice League but as announced in my
Aquaman video that i just posted i was going to do Supergirl video but there's
a new round of the giveaway that starts now all you have to do to enter is be a
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gift card so next video will be that Supergirl season 2 video and then I'll
probably do some marvel after that
it's been a little while since I've done a Marvel videos. While you guys wait
for that to post you can click here for my Aquaman video you can click here to
learn all about Superman and Supergirl season 2 thank you so much for watching
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I'll see you guys tonight