Peter Segal, the director of Get Smart, signed a 3 film contract with Warners, & the good Captain is in the package.
2011 for the Big Red Cheese!
Well, gaaw-aawl-ly!
And The Rock as Black Adam, or so I’ve heard.
Non-sequiteur or just rude?:dubious:
Jim Nabors, in his role as Gomer Pyle, not only used the above expression, also would use the exclamation-Shazam!
Interesting that “The Rock” appears to be Hollywood’s new go-to guy for resurrected Egyptian menaces. Not that he wouldn’t be an ideal choice for the role, since the character demands a fairly huge guy who can look stern, spout heated Namorian platitudes and flare his nostrils convincingly. If this be typecasting, at least it’s a step up career-wise from the Walking Tall remake.
I wonder who they’ll eventually tap for Sivana. William Hickey’s dead, dammit… Steve Buscemi, maybe?
I don’t see how a Captain Marvel movie can possibly be any good, or be anything but a box office flop. First off, the good Captain has always been a campy figure, so I’m sure we’ll get a campy movie. What was the last successful campy comic book movie? Recent comic book movies have achieved success by playing it straight.
Secondly, Captain Marvel is a character unfamiliar to most of the under-40 moviegoing public. (Unlike Spider-Man, Batman, or Superman.) Granted, Iron Man overcame this handicap, but I don’t think we’ll have the same talent involved in the Shazam project. (The Rock? Seriously?)
This seems to me like the kind of comic book movie that kills comic book movies – by being an epic failure (a la Batman and Robin). DC should be focusing on The Flash or maybe Green Lantern instead.
In recent years the Captain Marvel character has been retconned as being what a ten-year old boy thinks being a super hero would be like. Is that how they’re going to play it, or have it be camp?
There was golden age Shazam, which was fairly campy, but then all comics were. Then it was rebooted around the same time at Byrne’s Superman and made somewhat more serious. This is the era of Shazam I liked and hope they stick with that. After that, the campiness started creeping in again and that bugged the shit out of me. Although I do like the Billy becoming Shazam, and Marvel Jr becoming Captain Marvel stuff, as well as the Black Adam and Isis stuff before they killed her and her brother off.
And I find it just ridiculous that copyright or trademark issues mean they have to come up with such a ridiculously convoluted title. Some lawyers need shootin is all I’m saying.
It’s too bad about the title, but even if they could call the movie “Captain Marvel,” I can’t imagine that anyone involved would be too thrilled about associating the word “Marvel” with superheroes any more than it already is.
At any rate, there is absolutely no reason a Captain Marvel movie can’t work. It’s basically half Harry Potter and half Superman. It’ll be hard to screw that up too badly. I imagine they’ll go with the modern interpretation of Cap has Billy Batson in a grown-up, powerful body rather than the Golden Age version where Cap and Billy were two totally separate beings.
And The Rock is awesome. He was great in Scorpion King and the otherwise awful Doom. He approaches his action roles with just the right amount of humor and self-awareness that makes him really fun to watch.
I just hope they don’t muck with the costumes too much. Cap has a great outfit.
I just wish they’d do a Golden Age JSA flick.
The Rock as Black Adam = Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze
That would be a good thing. Arnold was great in that part.