In April 2019, DC and Warner Bros.
gave us the quippy and jokey “Shazam!” Directed by David F.
Sandberg and produced by Peter Safran — who together with James Gunn now helms the newly-christened DC Studios — the film was somewhat of an outlier among the darker films of the Snyderverse.
Zack Snyder had established the main continuity of the (now defunct) DC Extended Universe with blockbuster entries such as “Man of Steel” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”But “Shazam!” was a more lighthearted, less ambitious project, focused on a hero with much less cultural caché than DC’s biggest characters.
And it proved to be a hit.
With a global box office take of $363 million and widespread positive reviews, “Shazam!” proved DC and Warner Bros.
could do family-friendly films and be successful.But just a month before it, Marvel Studios had churned out its latest in the form of the Brie Larson-starring “Captain Marvel.
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