It's not all bad news, though. Cavill still clearly wants to play Superman, and you'll get to see him do more in HBO Max's upcoming
Zack Snyder's Justice League in March. But at the moment, he's rather busy at the moment shooting the second season of
The Witcher for Netflix. And as
Variety notes, the plan is still for him to show up as a cameo in
a DCEU movie in the future, just not
Shazam! 2.
This isn't the first time there's been questions about who's showing up in
Fury of the Gods. Though the cast of the original film is expected to return, including Asher Angel as Billy Batson and Zachary Levi as his heroic counterpart, the original announcement of the film last year also revealed comedian Sinbad had joined the cast. They even featured him in a poster! Was the casting a joke or the real deal? We shall see.