as many of you have noticed I have indeed been holding off on making a
video commenting on the set pics and now video that has leaked from the Shazam
movie that reveals a curry Levi in costume why have I done this well
there's the obvious and that that's that it looks really bad but I was also kind
of hoping for an assist from director David F Sandberg who if his tweets are
to be believed wants to release an official picture of this of the suit and
in fact he jinxed himself on Twitter by the way he was like but I sure wish I
could release an official photo but the suits won't let me so we can get started
talking about when the trailers gonna come out and then he followed it up with
a tweet saying and you know I have to say for all the outside shooting we've
been doing I'm surprised that nobody has taken a picture yet and the internet was
like challenge accepted and they are coming through in spades so before it
was just a picture from behind so we could all be like well let's wait till
we see the full costume but today we got we got the full frontal that we have I
think but asking for and in some ways dreading and I just can't wait any
longer to talk about it a number of you were eager to get this conversation
going and that's exactly what we're gonna do right now and I don't think by
the way David F Sandberg can wait any longer to release that official picture
and since he has waited so long the only conclusion that I can draw is that he
knows the reaction is bad but that's the suit you know some of us are alike well
maybe this is a dream sequence or maybe the lighting will help it and I
think David F Sandberg is like no that's what I went with
so he's like you know what I'm just gonna hunker down hope this blows over
and then I'll win everyone over with the teaser trailer right that would be my
game plan if that was indeed the suit that I had gone with would never have
gone with that suit but you know too late we're stuck you can't we can't keep
changing things at the last minute you know I made that comment about changing
poos mouths at the last minute and then Christopher Robin trailer and a number
of you were like that didn't work out so well for the D Stewie you grace that's
totally true and at some point you just gotta you gotta roll with it
so what this first the first photo that came out
I decided to show it to my mother because I was curious you know what does
a mainstream movie goer think of this costume because I was like maybe you
know what maybe this is for mainstream audiences maybe this isn't for
comic-book fans right okay let's try and get behind that argument and just to
give you some context she hated Batman V Superman but she thought Justice League
was fun you know she didn't love it but she was pleasantly surprised especially
after seeing Batman V Superman but when she saw this she said to me and I kid
you not she said oh do you mean that guy with the dress pinned to his back and
that just that just floored me because it was so accurate it really does look
like he has a dress pinned to the back I mean who would have a superhero cape
made of gods right who's like you know what I want I want a fluffy cape it
makes no sense and I think this just proves that this is one of those
costumes that doesn't translate beyond the comics even in the comics I think
Shazam is a niche character he's not a super popular character now of course
there have been niche characters characters that have leveled up to comic
book I mean to comic book movies incredibly successfully more successful
than popular characters in the comics but I don't think I don't know maybe it
will be I can kind of see the direction they're going in but I'm gonna also
we're gonna go over this but I'm gonna also tell you how to save your sanity
going forward with this movie the only path that's open to us hardcore comic
book fans alright so side note though I do have to
give them credit for working so hard to design this costume even though I feel
it's misguided like the Cape does look like it comes out of the comics it looks
very expensive like they're really making an effort here right
I appreciate the Lightning motif on the boots and on the gauntlets that's that's
a nice touch right I'm really reaching here but I do agree with people and
again when that very first photo came out of him at the mall during Christmas
a lot of people were like ah it's like jingle all the way that Arnold
Schwarzenegger Christmas movie and then also I thought elf
I thought elf not just because of the costume and the Christmas setting and
the movie by the way comes out April 5th 2019
but also because of the casting and that Zachary Levi has a very much of all like
a Will Ferrell type vibe and based on this video also that came out today
he's totally playing Shazaam like Will Ferrell played elf a
movie which by the way I absolutely adore but you know I had no preconceived
notions going in there and your preconceived notions are a real
bitch for Hollywood when it comes to cop properties and the one in the pool movie
by the way from the trailer discussion that we had earlier today but there's
nothing you can do they exist and you just got to deal with them and and so so
sorry so my first big question now is what is
up with the DC EU and tone right first Kristen Wiig is cheetah and now this
this direction with the movie I mean forget just the Christmas setting in a
movie that doesn't come out at Christmas right this is even more a 90s approach
and that this is how they handled comic book characters back then in Hollywood
and no one was happy with it it didn't work out so I don't know why anybody
would be like you know what let's go back to that that makes no sense to me
and I also don't understand I think this is why everybody's so perplexed why
would you hire a horror director to make big the superhero version or else the
superhero version why would you get a Jon Favreau or someone of who who has
experience in this field it makes no freaking sense alright and
then also when the first pick came out one of you asked me how can this stand
next to this and I tweeted back sadly it cannot and so now I'm wondering if
Shazam is intended to be part of the DC EU as a whole I think maybe it should be
just its own thing especially with this costume in this approach because here's
the problem the fact that Shazam is actually this little boy Billy Batson
turned into an adult superhero is supposed to be a secret just like big
but who in the league would fall for that if it's this guy Zachary Levi
played this way wearing this I mean forget just Batman being like I have to
investigate this I think anybody would be like something's not right here
and then also Shazam on that note is supposed to be Billy Batson this little
boy's ideal ideal superhero like what he thinks he would be if he turned into a
superhero right and who how is that Zachary Levi that makes that also makes
no sense to me even with all the fake muscles they've clearly stuck in his
costume that we can see you know audiences are too smart for that you
can't do that we're like yeah let's just sculpt it in there I know
I mean it's not real I just it doesn't even sell the idea of the character
forget mixing in with the Justice League so I know I just don't understand it so
I think again to preserve our sanity this is what I recommend we need to look
at this how clearly the Warner Brothers suits are looking at it and thank
goodness Walter Hamada came in after this was greenlight so I'm going to
choose to believe that he can't do anything about this okay so this is just
the superhero version of big or elf and I liked both those movies so I'm gonna
remain positive but I'm telling you I will lose my fit if he goes anywhere
near the Justice League I really well if they are forced to
interact with this I don't I'm sure they will be upset about it as well
so what do you think how can you get behind this costume do you think it
should be part of the DC EU and what do you think you know are you surprised as
I am as at the approach that DC you know that the moves they've been making
lately I don't think surprised I think that's I
think that's us being really polite oh okay all right if you want to do that
okay you just back out of the room all right so anyway write your thoughts down
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