Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC character Shazam. Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Studios, and the Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the 12th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, it stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D. J. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren. In the film, Billy Batson / Shazam and his foster siblings fight the Daughters of Atlas. A sequel to Shazam! began development shortly after its release in April 2019, with Gayden returning as writer, and Morgan joining soon after to revise Gayden's screenplay. Sandberg and Levi (Shazam) were also set to return by that December. The title and the rest of the returning cast were confirmed in August 2020, with Zegler, Mirren and Liu cast as the daughters of Atlas in early 2021. Filming began that May in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded in August. Shazam! Fury of the Gods premiered at the Fox Village Theatre in Los Angeles on March 14, 2023, and was released in the United States on March 17. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who considered it inferior to its predecessor. It was also a box-office bomb, grossing $134 million worldwide against a production budget of $110–125 million.
So I was sitting, yeah... Basically, I was sitting right here, and he was sitting right there. -Here? [chuckles] -Right there, yeah. [cell phone vibrates, chimes] Oh, sorry. Overbearing brother. Oh, I have one of those. Uh, a sister. Always has to know where I am. -Right. -[cell phone chiming] -I feel that, clearly. -[chuckles] Always thinks she knows better, too. Even when it's been factually proven otherwise? Exactly. And it's not that I don't love her. No, of course. It'd just be nice not to have someone-- Constantly breathing down your neck. -From the moment you wake up! -'Cause I'm not a kid anymore. No! I'm a month younger, one month exactly. And do we have to do every single thing together? [both] No! -[both chuckle] -[footsteps approaching] Oh! Billy! What... What a coinkidink! Um... I was just telling my friend Anne -what a great guy you are. -We need to talk. We need to talk. This guy loves to talk. -He's a great talker. -Freddy. -I have to talk to him. I'll be right back. -Okay.
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Wait, didn't you tell us the wizard disintegrated? The skin peeled off his face. He turned into a literal pile of ash. -Yeah, seems definitive. -I dunno. Yeah. Except now he's in my dreams and, Freddy, he's trying to give me a message. [snaps fingers] Could be astral projection powers. -What's that? -Obi-Wan Kenobi-ing you -from the great beyond? -That's it, I'm calling an emergency meeting after school. -I want you there. -Where else am I gonna go? -What? -Dude. [Freddy reading indistinctly] Okay, first of all, I didn't explode it! All right? It was already like that and, and, and... What is that, the Tribune? It's fake news! Freddy, we only have one rule. [both] All or none. And it's a stupid rule, by the way. I have a girl talking to me, Billy. A girl. For the first time in my life! And I probably don't have a shot in hell with this girl, but I'll never find out if you keep trying to control everything I wanna do! Just be at the Rock, Freddy. [sighs] Okay. Mmm. By the way, uh, she has a sister. Total control freak. I think you guys would get along. Think you'd love her, actually. [Shazam] Look, look, look. Fam, I know it sounds crazy. And, and obviously I don't know exactly what this all means but, but he was super aggro and super loud and he was trying to warn us, I think. He was yelling about all this wizard-y mumbo-jumbo about realms and stuff. Do you have to talk so loud? Yeah, Mary, 'cause this is not that loud. I think this is a perfectly acceptable indoor voice volume. What is the deal? Are you okay? -Yeah. -Why do you have sunglasses on? Did you go to the eye doctor this morning? -[snorts] -[Shazam chuckles] I dunno, it looks to me like Mary did go to the eye doctor, but it was last night, and she had a lot of fun. In point of fact, I did have a great time. I met other people my age and I enjoyed myself. You made friends at the eye doctor? No, she... Yeah, can we get back on track? Listen, he's yelling at me and he's saying the daughters of Atlas are coming to hunt us. So, check out what I found. "The daughters of Atlas are the offspring of the Titan Atlas..." which is obvious, but also Nyx, the Goddess of Night and Death. Well, good things can happen at night. -And death. -[sighs] Let me see this. [intriguing music playing]
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"The daughters guard the mythic Tree of Life which grows golden apples that contain the seeds of life which gave birth to their realm protected by a... -dragon." -Hey, now. And I am suddenly here for this. I know, right? 'Cause, like, on one hand, totally terrifying. -On the other hand, dragon! -Dragon! Mary. What are we doin'? I don't know, man. This is your meeting. Right, yes, fine, but we all need to be on the same page and, and, and look, I often think that you think better than me. The wizard did not exactly give me a tutorial here, guys, okay? Like, I don't know how a lot of this stuff works. That, that room of doors, or that violin that is, like, constantly burning which is super weird but also definitely keeps the lair cozy, right? He didn't even tell me my superhero name. And it's not like I'm not tryin'. But I really, really need your help.
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[chuckles] What? You call the pen "Steve"? Yeah, I thought he looked like a "Steve." [superhero Darla] He totally looks like a "Steve." -"'Crime and Punishment,' a book report by Pedro Pena?" -Yeah. -[Shazam laughs] -Pedro. -Dude, that's cheating. -I mean, he knows everything. -Hmm. -Seriously. Ask him. You can just ask him stuff? -Pretty much. -[Shazam] Slick. Okay, cool. Steve, we're looking for information about the daughters of Atlas. Can you please help us with that?
Shazam! Fury of the Gods