{"id":565582,"date":"2023-03-18T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-david-f-sandberg-talks-wonder-woman-cameo-the-marketing-swerve-and-those-credit-scenes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T17:40:06","slug":"shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-david-f-sandberg-talks-wonder-woman-cameo-the-marketing-swerve-and-those-credit-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-david-f-sandberg-talks-wonder-woman-cameo-the-marketing-swerve-and-those-credit-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Shazam! Fury of the Gods\u2019 Director David F. Sandberg Talks Wonder Woman Cameo, the Marketing Swerve and Those Credit Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d227282633\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d227282633\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-david-f-sandberg-talks-wonder-woman-cameo-the-marketing-swerve-and-those-credit-scenes\/#%E2%80%98Shazam_Fury_of_the_Gods_Director_David_F_Sandberg_Talks_Wonder_Woman_Cameo_the_Marketing_Swerve_and_Those_Credit_Scenes\" >\u2018Shazam! Fury of the Gods\u2019 Director David F. Sandberg Talks Wonder Woman Cameo, the Marketing Swerve and Those Credit Scenes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Shazam_Fury_of_the_Gods_Director_David_F_Sandberg_Talks_Wonder_Woman_Cameo_the_Marketing_Swerve_and_Those_Credit_Scenes\"><\/span>\u2018Shazam! Fury of the Gods\u2019 Director David F. Sandberg Talks Wonder Woman Cameo, the Marketing Swerve and Those Credit Scenes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>[This story contains spoilers for <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After joining the DCEU in 2017, <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em> director David F. Sandberg is ready to hang up his cape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With the second chapter of the Shazamily\u2019s adventures now in theaters, the Swedish filmmaker is finally able to open up about one of the highlights of his entire experience. Of course, that would be Gal Gadot\u2019s Wonder Woman cameo, which he actually directed remotely from home. The chance to properly include a member of the Justice League also made up for Henry Cavill\u2019s Superman cameo that didn\u2019t pan out on 2019\u2019s<em> Shazam!<\/em>, resulting in a headless Superman cameo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But because of that prior dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment, Sandberg still expected the worst to happen with Gadot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201c[Wonder Woman] was always supposed to be in [<em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em>], but I didn\u2019t believe it was going to happen because of what happened on the first movie where we had to do a headless Superman cameo. I thought that was going to happen here, too,\u201d Sanberg tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Sandberg adds: \u201cBut then it actually did happen, which was great, because then we could poke fun at the headless cameo of the first movie, with the Wizard [Djimon Hounsou] dream sequence. But we never could have done that if we didn\u2019t actually have Gal at the end because people would\u2019ve been furious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Sandberg is also clarifying the timing of the mid-credit scene since it includes Emilia Harcout (Jennifer Holland) and John Economos (Steve Agee) from James Gunn\u2019s <em>The Suicide Squad<\/em> and <em>Peacemaker<\/em>. With Gunn now the co-CEO of DC Studios alongside <em>Fury of the Gods <\/em>producer Peter Safran, some viewers might be thinking that they made a late addition to the film in order to connect Shazam (Zachary Levi) to Gunn\u2019s new DCU slate, but the scene was actually shot long before Gunn and Safran took the reins of DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThere were supposed to be characters from [<em>Black Adam<\/em>\u2019s] Justice Society, but that fell apart three days before we were going to roll cameras,\u201d Sandberg shares. \u201cSo, Peter Safran, who produced this movie and <em>Peacemaker<\/em>, made some calls, and thankfully, Jen Holland and Steve Agee were able to come by on very short notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With his duties in the DCEU now coming to a close, Sandberg is eager to return to his roots in the horror genre, and that includes reunions with his <em>Lights Out <\/em>and <em>Annabelle: Creation<\/em> producer, James Wan, as well as former DC Films president, Walter Hamada. The latter has executive produced all four of Sandberg\u2019s feature films.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI actually have one project in development with James \u2026 and I have been talking a lot with Walter about finding something to do together. I\u2019ve never made a movie without him, so I would love to do more with Walt,\u201d Sandberg says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Below, during a recent spoiler conversation with <em>THR<\/em>, Sandberg also discusses how he was caught off guard by the<em> Fury of the Gods<\/em> marketing team\u2019s sudden decision to include Gadot\u2019s Wonder Woman in the film\u2019s final wave of TV spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Well, you missed your L.A. premiere due to Covid. How are you feeling?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I\u2019m feeling pretty good now, actually. I missed the\u00a0premiere, but I\u2019m back on my feet now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You were also ahead of the ChatGPT curve with \u201cSteve.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, it\u2019s kinda funny how Steve turned into something timely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So let\u2019s cut to the chase. When did Gal Gadot\u2019s Wonder Woman enter into the equation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Right from the start and from the first script. She was always supposed to be in it, but I didn\u2019t believe it was going to happen because of what happened on the first movie where we had to do a headless Superman cameo. I thought that was going to happen here, too. So I started to think, \u201cOkay, when she can\u2019t do it or when it falls apart, how do we bring Shazam back to life? Will we have to bring Helen Mirren\u2019s character, Hespera, back? What are we going to do?\u201d But then it actually did happen, which was great, because then we could poke fun at the headless cameo of the first movie, with the Wizard [Djimon Hounsou] dream sequence and things like that. But we never could have done that if we didn\u2019t actually have Gal at the end because people would\u2019ve been furious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I know <\/strong><strong><em>Shazam!<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2019s headless Superman cameo was a disappointment at the time, but I appreciated how you turned it into a running gag with Wonder Woman being headless until she wasn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Yeah, and a lot of the credit goes to the writers [Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan], too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Did Gal\u2019s reputation precede her on set?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Because of a bunch of situations, I had to direct her stuff, remotely. So I was at home, and I had one screen with a feed from the camera and one feed that was a Zoom window where I could talk to her and everyone on set. It was kind of weird, but it worked out really well. She was super nice and super professional, and it was a dream to work with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>What have the conversations with marketing been like? I can\u2019t imagine you wanted that secret out, pre-release, but I know you\u2019re pragmatic as well.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I was surprised. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) I was just getting back from the press tour, and I got a text, asking, \u201cHey, why spoil Wonder Woman?\u201d And I was like, \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d So I didn\u2019t know, and they did apologize for not keeping me in the loop. But I understand why they did it, because they wanted to get people to see the movie. So, of course, I understand, but it\u2019s a shame because these days, the only audiences who get to see these <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> as intended are test audiences. When they saw the movie, they didn\u2019t know Rachel Zegler\u2019s character was a goddess, for example. For them, it was actually a twist that worked, but then, once marketing started, you have to show her in her goddess clothes and that whole thing is out of the bag. So no one is really going to be surprised that she\u2019s a goddess undercover in a school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((550\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-T2-0012r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"RACHEL ZEGLER as Anthea in New Line Cinema\u2019s action adventure \u201cSHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS,\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-T2-0012r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-T2-0012r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=125,70 125w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"550\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Rachel Zegler as Anthea in <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>For those who don\u2019t know, you cast Rachel Zegler before <\/strong><strong><em>West Side Story<\/em><\/strong><strong> came out, and while watching the movie, I did in fact wonder if you wanted to withhold her character\u2019s real identity in the trailer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, that was always the intention with the movie, but as soon as they started working on the marketing, it was just going to be impossible to keep it secret, unfortunately. But a lot of people actually enjoy spoilers. There\u2019s so many prolific leakers and scoopers on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> who have so many followers, and they really want to know every detail about DC and Marvel movies before they see them. If that\u2019s your thing, that\u2019s your thing, but I really enjoy knowing as little about a movie as possible. I just saw <em>The Menu<\/em> recently, and I thought it was going to be a cannibal movie. So I had no idea what it really was going into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I just had this conversation with Matt Reeves recently in regard to <\/strong><strong><em>Cloverfield<\/em><\/strong><strong> and how you could never pull off that kind of release again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, you could probably do it with a smaller movie at a lower budget, but a superhero movie? Forget it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So, the mid-credit scene. Based on the inclusion of two of James Gunn\u2019s characters, Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) and John Economos (Steve Agee), people might be thinking that it was a late addition in order to connect Shazam (Zachary Levi) to the new DCU, but that wasn\u2019t the case, was it? It was already a thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, poor James [Gunn]. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) I saw people online going, \u201cStop casting your wife [Jennifer Holland] in everything,\u201d and it\u2019s like, \u201cNo.\u201d So there were supposed to be characters from [<em>Black Adam<\/em>\u2019s] Justice Society, but that fell apart three days before we were going to roll cameras. I was really upset because we had built that abandoned gas station set, and we could only shoot that scene in that little piece of forest. I was like, \u201cThis is so boring. We need something here.\u201d So the art department built that whole gas station and brought in some old cars and things. They made it look really nice with very few resources, and so I was like, \u201cWe have this set and we have the time, so we have to shoot something here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    So, Peter Safran, who produced this movie and <em>Peacemaker<\/em>, made some calls, and thankfully, Jen Holland and Steve Agee were able to come by on very short notice. I mean, the scene makes a little less sense with them. It\u2019s like, \u201cWhy are they recruiting for Justice Society?\u201d but you can kind of see it as they\u2019re working for Amanda Waller [Viola Davis]. So I was just very grateful to get them in there, and it was really cool shooting it because I\u2019m a big fan of <em>Peacemaker<\/em>. So, sitting there and watching the monitor felt like I was watching a new episode of <em>Peacemaker<\/em>, and all of that happened a long time ago [before Gunn and Safran became the co-CEOs of DC Studios].<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((650\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-08688_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"(L-R) Zachary Levi and Director DAVID SANDBERG on the set of New Line Cinema\u2019s action adventure \u201cSHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS,\u201d\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"650\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">(L-R) Zachary Levi and director David F. Sandberg on the set of<em> Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Jessica Miglio\/Warner Bros.<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, I know you\u2019re allowed to reference pretty much anything you want as long as you don\u2019t show it, but with the Captain Marvel and Avengers references, did that require multiple levels of approval at the studio?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Just one level. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) It is strange because you can\u2019t [visually] reference everything you want. I discovered that on the first movie when I put in a reference to <em>Watchmen<\/em>, with a little <em>Watchmen<\/em> logo thing, and clearance came back to me and said, \u201cYou can\u2019t do that. You have to check with us first.\u201d You\u2019d think, \u201cWell, it\u2019s all DC, right?\u201d but it\u2019s all very complicated rights issues and things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And on this one, I wanted to have a reference to Detective Chimp in the pediatrician\u2019s office by having a chimpanzee plushy with a little deerstalker hat on him, but clearance was like, \u201cNo, you can\u2019t do that.\u201d But with the Captain Marvel stuff, [Michael Gray from the \u201870s <em>Shazam! TV <\/em>show] was supposed to just say, \u201cHoly moley,\u201d but I was like, \u201cLet\u2019s do one take where you say \u2018Captain Marvel\u2019 even though we\u2019re not going to be able to use it. Why not?\u201d And then I asked the guys at DC: \u201cCan we use that?\u201d And they were like, \u201cWell, Marvel has mentioned DC characters in their movies, so why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Neither of your movies ultimately needed Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson), but are you disappointed at all that you didn\u2019t get to explore Shazam and Black Adam\u2019s relationship in a meaningful capacity?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    No, not really. The thing about Black Adam is that he has the same powers as Shazam, and we did that in the first movie where we gave Sivana [Mark Strong] the same power. So I don\u2019t think the fight itself would\u2019ve been super interesting, but I do think it\u2019s a missed opportunity. What makes the most sense is to have them fight each other, so it\u2019s money left on the table. But it\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>There was a period of time where this movie was counterprogramming to <\/strong><strong><em>Avatar: The Way of Water<\/em><\/strong><strong>. Did you actually talk yourself into that idea at one point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    At first, when they put it there, I was like, \u201cThat sounds scary,\u201d but then, I actually grew to like the idea. I actually wanted us to stay there. I understand the reason why they moved it because [<em>Avatar: The Way of Water<\/em>] was taking up all of the IMAX and large-format screens, but I still think it could have worked a little bit like counterprogramming. But who knows?<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((500\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-TRLR-0002_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"(L-r) JOVAN ARMAND as Pedro Pena, JACK DYLAN GRAZER as Freddy Freeman, ASHER ANGEL as Billy Batson, FAITHE HERMAN as Darla Dudley, GRACE CAROLINE CURREY as Mary Bromfield and IAN CHEN as Eugene Choi in New Line Cinema\u2019s action adventure \u201cSHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS,\u201d\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"500\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">(L-r) Jovan Armand as Pedro Pena, Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman, Asher Angel as Billy Batson, Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley, Grace Caroline Currey as Mary Bromfield and Ian Chen as Eugene Choi in <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>From the kids to the grown-ups, you have a great cast across the board, but the downside is that you have two worthy actors playing just one role. So was it a tough juggling act to keep everybody involved?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, that\u2019s why we had to go the route of taking the kids\u2019 powers away. It wouldn\u2019t make sense for them to be kids for most of the movie if they could be superheroes, and you want to see the kids because they\u2019re so charming and great. But it was quite a struggle to give everyone enough time, and it\u2019s a little bit uneven in the movie. It\u2019s also a challenge to shoot as well, with many actors and characters to wrangle. It was actually complicated a bit with Grace [Caroline Currey] playing both young and [Super Hero] Mary. If we hadn\u2019t done that, we could\u2019ve had the adults in their superhero costumes and just swapped them out, but with Mary\u2019s character, Grace had to go away for makeup and costume. So it would take 40 minutes for her to go back and forth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((476\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-TRLR-0001_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"(L-r) ROSS BUTLER as Super Hero Eugene, ADAM BRODY as Super Hero Freddy, GRACE CAROLINE CURREY as Super Hero Mary, ZACHARY LEVI as Shazam, MEAGAN GOOD as Super Hero Darla and D.J. COTRONA as Super Hero Pedro in New Line Cinema\u2019s action adventure \u201cSHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS,\u201d\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"476\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">(L-r) Ross Butler as superhero Eugene, Adam Brody as superhero Freddy, Grace Caroline Currey as superhero Mary, Zachary Levi as Shazam, Meagan Good as superhero Darla and D.J. Cotrona as superhero Pedro in <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>A wise man once said that moviemaking is nothing but problem solving. So, what was an example of problem solving on this movie?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Well, we had to do one thing with Mary, actually. After they\u2019ve saved everyone on the bridge and they all come together, we have that big shot that starts out with Mary flying in and landing next to camera. And the way you have to do that is it starts out with a digi-double. So it\u2019s a digital Mary, and then it turns into the real Mary, Grace, who\u2019s up on wires and being lowered to the ground. But that takeover just did not work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Usually, when you go from a digi-double to a real character, you try to do it in a fast motion so you get some motion blur to hide the blending. And even though this was a very smooth, very stable descent, it just didn\u2019t work, and there was not enough time and money to redo the digi-double and everything. So that\u2019s why there\u2019s a bunch of smoke in that scene. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) It was like, \u201cLet\u2019s put this plume of smoke across the whole screen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    So as she goes through that smoke, that\u2019s when the transition happens between digital to real. It\u2019s one of those band-aids that you do in quite a few places in a movie. It\u2019s like, \u201cLet\u2019s add a lens flare or smoke or dust or even shaky camera, sometimes.\u201d It\u2019s something to hide the seams or try to disguise the things that didn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I\u2019m sorry for spoiling your next YouTube <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mzNS4U_aE28&amp;ab_channel=ponysmasher\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) No worries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>At the beginning of the movie, a museum security guard is frozen with a visual effect that is reminiscent of <\/strong><strong><em>Dune<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2019s shields, and then you also have a dragon throughout the movie. To streamline things, did the studio refer you to the same VFX companies that they used for <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><em>Dune<\/em><\/strong><strong>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Well, we did use Pixomondo for some of the dragon sequences, and they did the dragons for <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>. But that\u2019s just what makes sense. If you\u2019re making <em>Rampage<\/em> and you need a gorilla, you\u2019d call Weta because they did the <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> movies. So it just made sense to get those guys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s funny that you mentioned <em>Dune<\/em> because that was a reference I used. It was something that took forever to get right because it was supposed to be this force field. What Hespera is actually doing is she\u2019s manipulating the water in his body, and the first things we did just did not work out right. And eventually, I was looking at references for force fields, and I was like, \u201cHey, look what <em>Dune<\/em> is doing. That could work if we\u2019re doing something similar to that.\u201d So it was just about trying to find something that worked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((550\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-FP-0173r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"A Scene from New Line Cinema\u2019s action adventure \u201cSHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS,\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-FP-0173r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rev-1-SHZM2-FP-0173r_High_Res_JPEG-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=125,70 125w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"550\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\"><em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>What shot are you most proud of in the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Probably one of the shots in the stadium battle towards the end. There\u2019s one shot from below the dragon after he just got hit, and it\u2019s back-lit by lightning. It just looks really cool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Did the Philadelphia Phillies jump at the chance to have a digital version of their ballpark destroyed in the movie?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) I\u2019m not sure. I wasn\u2019t really involved in those conversations, but I\u2019m really glad that we got to do it. The first movie was shot in Toronto and this movie was shot in Atlanta, and neither place looks like Philadelphia. So we tried to get as many Philadelphia references and landmarks in there as we could to make it feel a little bit like Philadelphia, at least for people who have never been there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You gave yourself a cameo death in the movie. What were you screaming as your last words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>\u201c<\/strong>Sl\u00e4pp mig!\u201d It\u2019s Swedish for \u201clet me go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Did Djimon Hounsou appreciate the Wizard\u2019s makeover at the end?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Yeah, I think so. We can see what he actually looks like and how stylish he can be. That was a lot of fun just bringing him back. He\u2019s a highlight of the movie. We killed him in the first movie, and then for this one, it was like, \u201cOh shit. It would be good to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>He got the biggest laugh during my screening. It\u2019s when he rolls his eyes at Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Anthea\u2019s (Rachel Zegler) sweet talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, he\u2019s great. He\u2019s really funny, too. Jack and Djimon were a great combination, with Djimon being the straight man and Jack being the annoying kid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I also thought it was really clever how the post-credit scene pokes fun at the last movie\u2019s credit scene that you didn\u2019t ultimately fulfill.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It felt like we had to do that because I knew people were going to be like, \u201cWhoa, what happened to the worm from the first one? Weren\u2019t you setting something up? What happened?\u201d So we had to at least do some sort of nod or just show something that says, \u201cHey, we didn\u2019t forget about him. He\u2019s just still working on something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So the Shazam family\u2019s future in the DCU is up in the air, but after two movies, have you scratched your superhero movie itch at this point? Are you ready to move on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s definitely how I feel right now, yeah. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) I started my <em>Shazam<\/em> journey right after <em>Annabelle: Creation<\/em> in 2017, and so it\u2019s been quite a few years of just <em>Shazam<\/em>. So I\u2019m very ready to move on and go back to horror and just try some other things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Are you going to follow Walter Hamada to Paramount and set something up there? Or are you going to accompany James Wan to <\/strong><strong>Universal<\/strong><strong>? Both of your producers have scattered a bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Either one would be great. I actually have one project in development with James. It\u2019s not at Universal, but it\u2019s with his company, Atomic Monster. And I have been talking a lot with Walter about finding something to do together. I\u2019ve worked with Walter on every single one of my movies so far. I\u2019ve never made a movie without him, so I would love to do more with Walt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Well, David Sandberg, congratulations on <em>Shazam! Fury of the Gods<\/em>, and I can\u2019t wait to see where you go next.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I can\u2019t either. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    ***<br \/>Shazam! Fury of the Gods <em>is now playing in movie theaters. 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