The Rock will be playing Black Adam
http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/24871/20140613/shazam-dc-movie-the-rock.htm
If this movie really does come out I would imagine he will be, but who will play Shazam and who will play the wizard?
I thought Shazam was the wizard and Billy Batson was Captain Marvel but in the video games it seems like they're calling him Shazam so then what's the wizard's name?
BWPS, they've been in a legal battle with Marvel for ever, and they've stopped calling him Captain Marvel in titles and even in general because of that.
Pulled this from another forum:
Here's roughly how it went.
- Captain Marvel was originally owned by a company called Fawcett
- He was a massive success.
- Was actually more popular than Superman at one point.
- DC didn't like this one bit, they sued Cap Marvel's creators to hell.
- DC won the lawsuit, Fawcett couldn't use the Big Red Cheese anymore.
- DC now had the rights, but completely cancelled all Cap Marvel stuff out of spite.
- Years pass. Cap Marvel has all but died.
- Timely Publications becomes Marvel.
- Marvel creates their own hero called Captain Marvel. Is nothing like Supez.
- Marvel trademarks the guy. Takes the name.
- DC says "Oh Crap!, we messed up!" and tries to sue Marvel for infringing on their rights.
- Marvel wins the lawsuit since Cap Marvel did nothing during DC's ownership of him.
- Some time later, DC brings back Cap Marvel, is no longer allowed to call the comic that, and the book is renamed Shazam.
- To this day, DC can't use Captain Marvel as a comic book name.
- 2012 DC changes their Captain Marvel to SHAZAM
I'm still hoping the hero is called Captain Marvel, but the movie itself cannot legally be, so Shazam it is.
Looked it up on Wikipedia and since CM has been namechanged to Shazam, the new wizard is YET UNNAMED.
The Rock might be a good Black Adam, he should be able to pull off the look and the action, but I wonder how he'll handle the personality.
I actually prefer Captain Marvel as Shazam for some reason.
Quote from: Podmark on July 11, 2014, 02:06:10 AM
I actually prefer Captain Marvel as Shazam for some reason.
I do too. I like to think that Shazam is a mantle and not really one person. The wizard was Shazam and then Teth Adam became the new Shazam and now Billy Baston takes up the mantle.