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While films based on DC Comics have been made since the late 1970s when Richard Donner made
Superman: The Movie, the blockbusters have been doing things very differently in the last decade. In 2013 Warner Bros. released Zack Snyderâs
Man Of Steel, and with it launched the DC Extended Universe â an expansive continuity that sees some of the greatest superheroes ever created â including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the entire Justice League â occupying a single world. Itâs a canon that continues to expand, with new movies coming out every year, and while thatâs a great thing for fans, it can also be a touch problematic for newcomers trying to get a grip on things.
From angel to demigod
Lucy Liu will be playing a villainous demigod character in
Shazam! Fury of the Gods alongside Zachary Levi, Asher Angel and Helen Mirren.
According to Variety, Lucy Liu will play a character named Kalypso while Helen Mirren will play her sister, Hespera. Both demigods will go toe-to-toe with the hero Shazam.
While the respective deities do not have an obvious counterpart in DC Comics, they are both daughters of the god Atlas according to Greek mythology.
Atlas is one of the six immortal elders who is the source of Shazam’s powers. Shazam has the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the courage of Achilles, the power of Zeus, the stamina of Atlas, and the speed of Mercury (did you realise the first letters of the name form an acronym?).
Henry Cavill won t appear as Superman in Shazam: Fury of the Gods
February 5, 2021 by:
In the closing moments of
SHAZAM!, Billy Batson (Angel Asher) made good on his promise to Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer) and showed up at Fawcett High School as Shazam (Zachary Levi), but that wasn t all as he also brought a certain Man of Steel along with him. Although we never saw his face in the scene, the actor playing Superman was wearing Henry Cavill s
Justice League suit.
Shazam! producer Peter Safran said in 2019 that the original intention was for Henry Cavill to make a proper cameo in this scene. At one point, we d hoped it was going to be Cavill doing it, but unfortunately his schedule didn t allow him to do it, Safran said. We still wanted to do it anyway, and it turned out to be better, because it let us do a hard cut on Freddy s reaction, because if we had Cavill there, we d actually written lines, they had a dialogue, but then it s a little bit of a hat on hat, because