SHAZAM! – ‘Meet Billy Batson’ Featurette [HD]

Meet Shazam! Get to know Billy Batson as a kid (Angel) and a superhero (Levi) with Director David F. Sandberg, Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, and Jack Dylan Grazer!

Shazam! (2019)

By shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid, Billy Batson (Asher Angel), can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).

In cinemas April 5

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[TheRealDustinNunn]

Trivia: Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) was originally created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck and published by Fawcett Comics as a competitor to DC Comics' Superman. DC did not like the idea of Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, so DC sued Parker, Beck and Fawcett in court and legally bought the rights to the Captain Marvel character for themselves. DC trademarked the Captain Marvel character, but they did not trademark the Captain Marvel name. The name "Captain Marvel" ended up being trademarked by Marvel Comics. Marvel used the Captain Marvel name for their characters who took on the name "Captain Marvel". Later, Marvel had a legal battle with another comic book company called M.F. Enterprises. M.F. forgot how copyright worked and created their own version of Captain Marvel, who was an alien robot who had the ability to split himself apart and put himself back together again. After M.F. got sued by Marvel and went out of business because of Marvel, Captain Marvel now had two owners. Marvel owned the Captain Marvel name and DC owned the Captain Marvel character. DC was unaware that Marvel trademarked the Captain Marvel name first before DC could get their hands on the Captain Marvel name, so DC got a cease-and-desist letter from Marvel telling DC that DC could not use the Captain Marvel name, so DC had no choice but to rename Captain Marvel the character from "Captain Marvel" to "Shazam" to avoid conflict with Marvel. DC should have renamed Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) the character's name from "Captain Marvel" to "Captain Marvelous" because back when Billy Batson was with Fawcett, his creators were trying to think of a superhero name for his alter-ego. The original name was going to be "Captain Thunder", but there was already a character named Captain Thunder. So then, Billy Batson's alter-ego was renamed "Captain Marvelous". But here was a problem: the name "Captain Marvelous" could not fit on the covers of the comic books, inside the comic books, word balloons, thought balloons and narrator boxes so the name was shortened to "Captain Marvel". Renaming the character "Shazam" was a stupid idea because there is already a character named Shazam, who was the wizard who passed on his powers to Billy Batson.

[waynedavis]

I saw this movie on friday lat week and it was awesome also asher angel is awesome