How well do you remember your childhood,
rejected by your parents and by the system?
But then something incredible happened.
See, my name?
I spent the millennium
searching for worthy champion
of the powers child who fight for the world.
Hey, Khaleesi.
Yo, Shazam!
Fury of the Gods really beat you 13.
Welcome back, everyone is Charlie.
There's a brand new Shazam Fury of the Gods trailer.
There's a bunch of Easter eggs that will break it all down.
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I know there's lots of questions about how all
these characters figure into the big DC Studios reboot in DC.
Phase one are DC, Chapter one is James Gunn is calling it.
He's calling them chapters instead of phases, but it's the same basic concept.
So as many of you know, DC has been disconnected in film and television
for a long time, and it's one of, you know, our jobs mine and Peter's
is to come in and make sure the DCU is connected
in film, television, gaming and animation, that the characters are consistent,
played by the same actors, and it works within one story.
Now, Peter and I have gotten pretty lucky in terms of the four projects
that are coming out over the next year.
First, we have Shazam Fury of the Gods.
Shazam has always been off kind of in his own part of the DCU,
so he connects very well.
That moves directly into The Flash, a fantastic movie
that I really love that resets the entire DC universe.
Then to move into Blue Beetle, a fantastic film about a kid
who's a marvelous part of the DCU, and then into Aquaman two,
which leads directly
into our next few projects, which I'm going to tell you about now.
Next up is the big one, the true beginning of the DCU.
This is called Superman Legacy.
This is being written by me.
I'm in the middle of it.
I'm having a great time doing it.
And Superman will be released into theaters July 11th, 2025.
Zachary Levi seems very confident that he's going to come back.
James Gunn did say that the Flash movie would reboot
most of the previous DCU, but not completely reboot everything.
According to him, it is possible that Gal Gadot comes back
as Wonder Woman and it is possible that the Shazam characters come back.
But we know that the Rock is not coming back as black.
Adam So like, not every single Shazam associated character is coming back,
but they're still releasing all the previous DCU connected movies
this year,
and some of them they're just saying, Oh, this could be part of our new DCU,
they're just calling it the DCU instead of the DCU.
The Blue Beetle movie is a good example of that.
Like they said, when the Blue Beetle movie comes out later, this year,
that could be part of their new DCU as if it was going to be part of it
just because of the way they made the movie to be relatively self-contained
and without too many overt connections to the DCU.
Like not every single Justice League member
like Henry Cavill, Superman shows up and helps them out to the entire movie.
So from a practical perspective, it's just easier for me to say, Oh, you know what?
This is connected because we say it's connected.
And it seems like that's the tactic
they're taking with some of the movies this year,
and that's why they're removing some of the cameo scenes from DCU.
Actors like Henry Cavill, Superman from The Flash movie.
In some of them they're keeping in in some of the Post-Credits
scenes are changing, like, can we make a couple edits to this
particular movie so that it feels like it's less connected to the DCU
and more connected to our DCU after the big reboot.
But it is helpful to know that they are planning on doing what
we all kind of assumed that they were going to do
and use the big flash point twist in the Flash movie to soft reboot everything.
During the new Shazam Fury of the Gods trailer,
it seems like it's mostly about Billy believing in himself,
which gets into the origin of their powers,
like the acronym that makes up all the different names in their powers.
Shazam is an acronym that stands for The Wisdom of Solomon.
The Strength of Hercules, The Stamina of Atlas, The Power of Zuse.
The Courage of Achilles in the Speed of Mercury Black.
Adam has the same thing for his name.
It's meant to be another
acronym of Shazam, but it represents the Egyptian gods in Black Adam's case.
And in this case, it's the Greek gods.
There are a couple names in there, though, that weren't
traditionally Greek gods, though, so I think they're there
treating them like legendary figures.
Because if you look at this page in the Book of Magic,
that's based on their powers, like this
is the one with the lightning on it that symbolizes their powers.
It just seems like Mary Marvel finds this book of magic in the Rock of Eternity
that was written by the Wizard Shazam
about the origin of their powers and how he created them in the first place.
That's the whole thing with Helen Mirren's character in the Three Sisters
that are trying to take the powers back of the Greek Titan Atlas.
Some of the Greek mythology, I think they're playing a little fast
and loose with they're treating them like legendary figures.
Like technically, Atlas wasn't a God.
He was a Titan.
It's a slightly different thing, but still just as powerful.
In the clip, Billie is in Shazam, powered up form in adult form,
talking to his child therapist because technically in the child,
he'd still be seeing a child therapist played by P.J.
Byrne, who you probably recognize from a thousand things.
He's actually been in a bunch of stuff recently into just talking Billie
through all the traumatic things in his past and how he's overcome that.
Since the events of the first movie to become the character Shazam.
So in this trailer and in the previous trailer
where it seems like he's trying to give up his powers,
like, No, no, I need to sacrifice myself in order to save Freddie Freeman.
Here.
He either pretends like he's going to give up his powers
like he feigns in order to get them to lower their defenses.
And then he has that knock down, drag out fight with the dragon
after making a whole bunch of Game of Thrones Khaleesi references.
It sounds like a lot of these scenes in a lot of the movie,
maybe just in general, are him drawing on the powers of the courage of Achilles.
Because in the first movie,
you mostly just see him using his powers of flight strength lightning.
The lightning come from the power of Zeus.
Like that's what that power represents.
The strength of Hercules is just like his physical strength.
The other interesting thing that the director
said about the Dragon in the movie is that
the dragon is actually made of wood from this mythical tree.
It seems like their home is on Mount Olympus or somewhere near
Mount Olympus, just because we're talking about the Greek mythology here.
There are a couple more scenes inside there, like behind the sisters
on this altar.
Here you can see this giant statue of their father,
the Greek titan that was holding the earth.
When they say the wizard Shazam stole the powers from their father.
And these are the people using the staff here, like as is depicted,
you see all the different names around him here.
It'll be interesting to see how they explain this.
Did he really steal them
or was he granted the power or a portion of the power by Atlas himself?
My only theory right now, because Rachael Ziegler's
character, who's meant to represent like the youngest sister,
seems like she sides with Freddie Freeman, like she falls in love with him,
or they start some kind of relationship and wants to help the Shazam.
Lee and her sisters turn against her because you see her fighting her sisters
and her fighting the dragon with Freddie Freeman.
Early theory is that by the end of the movie
they'll come to an arrangement
where the sisters just grant them a portion of their father's power.
So they continue to use their powers,
but they're not, quote unquote, stealing it from the sisters anymore.
This also just gets into the idea of how the Shazam in the black Adam
characters get their power.
They don't take all the power away from the gods
that make up the names in their acronyms.
They just draw on the power.
The other interesting thing, talking more about Wonder Woman mythology,
because this is Greek mythology, it's the same group of gods,
the same group of titans that we're talking about here.
During the trailer for James Gunn's big reboot,
he released I already did a big video for it,
so I'll post a link at the end of this and down to the description below.
But as part of that, one of the big HBO series
that they're doing is Paradise Lost about the Amazons.
But it said before Wonder Woman was born.
So we're talking like 5000 plus years ago when all the Greek
gods, like Zeus in his family, were still alive.
So if you remember the flashback
to the Dark Side war 10,000 years ago during the Justice League, Snyder cut,
We're probably going to be seeing way more of those types of characters now.
Obviously, they're going to recast a lot of those characters,
but it's just the idea that we're going to see more with those gods before Wonder
Woman is born.
Like she'll probably be born at the end of that series.
That's one of the primary reasons why they canceled Wonder Woman three
Because if James Gunn is saying that Gal Gadot
could come back as Wonder Woman, they're probably just waiting
until they make it through this first phase to bring her back.
As far as we know, though,
according to James Gunn's announcements about the upcoming DCU projects,
the first major one is supposed to be the new Superman Legacy movie.
Even though there are a couple of projects here on the schedule
that will come before that.
The Superman Legacy movie isn't supposed to be released until 2025,
so it sounds like there's going to be a period after this year
where they're just kind of stuff in limbo in-between things.
it sound like there was going to be a Peacemaker
Season two as well, because the Amanda Waller series is supposed to take place
between Peacemaker Season one and Peacemaker Season two,
and it'll star some of the Peacemaker characters, which was a DCU series
like some of his Suicide Squad DCU characters are continuing,
but it looks like there aren't any Shazam related movies involving those characters
or the Black Adam characters during his official Phase one.
Look at Shazam Fury of the Gods movie is the last time you'll see
any Shazam related characters for a good long while.
So it's one of those deals
when Zachary Levi talking about coming back is like will come back,
but it'd be like three or four years before you might see those characters
again anywhere, let alone in another one of their movies.
Also, one of the problems with that is that if they do bring them back,
all the kids would be so much older, they would look so much older
that it would get kind of weird.
Really good example is Mary Marvel.
The reason why she's being played by the kid
version of the character is because they aged up
so much in the couple of years since the first movie
that she just looked like the perfect age to play her character as an adult.
Asher Angel is 20 years old right now.
As we're releasing this movie in a couple more years, like four more years, E.B.
in his mid-twenties, he would be the perfect age,
theoretically, to play a version of Shazam.
Now he's not super swole, so it'll look kind of weird
that Diesel has CG above him up.
That's why I'm not holding my breath on all the Shazam characters coming back.
The other big thing we haven't been talking about
as much is the new Batman that they're going to have in this shared DCU.
They're going to have two Batmen going forward.
They'll be the Robert Pattinson Batman in the Batman, too.
Matt Reeves is apparently just calling it the Batman Part two right now.
That will also be coming out in 2025, the same year that that new Superman
legacy movies coming out.
And as you can see on this chart, it'll be an elseworlds
movie set in a different universe, not connected to the DCU,
not connected to the Superman legacy movie, for instance,
that Batman will be in The Brave in the Bold movie
and it'll be a Damian Wayne Team-Up movie with the rest of the bat-family.
So like skipping way further ahead, like we have young Robert Pattinson,
Batman and like Batman, you're three by the time Batman two comes out.
Then a little while after the Superman Legacy movie will have Braven The Bold
with a young version of Damian Wayne the Batman is already had.
I'm assuming he'll be in his forties.
We'll see how all they wind up making him and we'll have Nightwing will have Red
Hood will have pretty much all the other major members of the Bat-Family
kind of skipping over the development of some of those characters.
He didn't say Bat-Family so they'll all be in there somewhere.
I don't know if every single one of them is going to be in the movie,
but when he was talking about the comic books that were inspired,
he specifically spoke about Grant Morrison's run
because he created Damian Wayne in when he introduced the character.
That was actually when Nightwing was wearing the Cape and the cow.
So he'll be kind of weird if they do The Brave in the Bold movie with a version
of Batman and Damian Wayne in They don't do Nightwing during that movie.
I'm sure there's going to be a thousand questions
about all these different new movies and all the reboot stuff that's happening.
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