From AICN, "John August (GO, BIG FISH) is now penning the adaptation of DC Comics' SHAZAM! for New Line.If you don't know, the story is about little Billy Batson who discovers he can be a superhero, like the ones he reads about in comics, if he shouts the phrase SHAZAM!
August didn't grow up with the books, but upon reading the series he said he's fallen in love with the concept of a teenage comic book reader learning how to be a Superhero from the comics he reads. Geoff Johns has met with August about the project, helping the newbie "idiot check" and make sure they're staying true to the book.
August didn't grow up with the books, but upon reading the series he said he's fallen in love with the concept of a teenage comic book reader learning how to be a Superhero from the comics he reads. Geoff Johns has met with August about the project, helping the newbie "idiot check" and make sure they're staying true to the book.
I didn't grow up with this book, so I have no real feelings one way or the other. The concept has always been cool and the gold lightning bolt on red is a great, striking superhero image, so why not? Could be fun, no?"
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I got one of those big, thick books from the library when I was a kid that collected years of Shazam comics. They're bizarrely mystical: the old wizard Shazam lives on the Rock of Eternity, which is where the lightning comes from. My point is that they could hella change up the story and it would be fine.
He does have a pretty cool costume.
I was once into Shazam! and my grandmother, who apparently caught wind of this, gave me a "Shazam" puzzle. The problem was that it wasn't the Shazam! we all know and love but rather just some random wizardy thing.
I was so disappointed.
Almost as disappointed as I was on the day I finally figured out that it was "That Girl" and not "Batgirl" that followed the old Batman TV show. I remember being soooooooooooo disappointed when Margot Thomas refused to turn into the titular character. The ending credits would roll and I was like, "What the hell? Waaaaaaa!"
That's hilarious. For a while when I was a kid I thought the TV turned on automatically when you came into the room, because someone else always turned it on. Then one night I went to watch TV by myself and told my dad it wasn't working.
He said, "You have to pull the knob, little Octopunk."
My mother still tells people how I used to press my hands against the TV screen in an attempt to prevent the baker from falling down the stairs in that old Sesame Street sketch ("10 Banana cream pies...").
It never worked.
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