Here’s Everything We Learned About “Shazam! Fury Of The Gods” And “Black Adam” From The Cast And Directors At Comic-Con 2022
- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.
So, in case you missed it because you were taking a little nap, ya know, all weekend long — San Diego Comic-Con 2022 was this past weekend, and we were gifted with so much new content! Almost too much! It's a little overwhelming!!!
NBC
And BuzzFeed reported live from inside Hall H during the massive Warner Bros./DC Entertainment panel, so let's list out every single thing we learned, shall we?! Here we go:
1.The panel was an hour long, and only focused on two titles — but they're DC's two major upcoming flicks, Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Black Adam. You could definitely feel the passion and excitement in the room from the fans for the projects!
2.First up was Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which is a great title! I love it! We should put exclamation points in the middle of more titles so they read like the manic professional emails I send to my coworkers!
3.We received our first trailer for the highly anticipated sequel, which revealed that the DCEU's versions of Flash, Aquaman, and Batman are still very much canon in this story.
4.And, via the trailer, we also got a look at the new cast additions, which include some pretty massive names: Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, and Rachel Zegler!
5.After the trailer, Zachary Levi came out, and — this has nothing to do with Shazam!, but — the moment he started talking, my brain was like, "LOL, Flynn Rider."
6.When asked to catch us up on what's happening with the "Shazamily" (how the cast of Shazam! refers to themselves, which is just delightful), Zachary said, "We got this really cool look into all the kids getting their superpowers at the end of the last movie, which was so fun, and now, it's a couple of years on, and we've all been flying around, doing various missions, trying to help the city of Philadelphia and the world at large, but again, we're all still kind of learning how to do that."
7."Lots of growing pains," he concluded. "Not just in our own powers, but also figuring out our own identity between [...] regular self or super self."
8.Then, as the rest of the cast in attendance was introduced on stage — which included the likes of director David F. Sandberg, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Lucy Liu — we learned that Lucy, Helen Mirren, and Rachel Zegler will be playing "the film's all-new trio of mythological sisters, The Daughters of Atlas."
9.Also, Lucy entered Hall H like this, and I can assure you — I will never be the same:
10.Also-also, when her character name was revealed — she plays "the Goddess Calypso" — someone in the audience shouted out "FROM AN ANGEL TO A GOD!" which made the whole cast and crowd giggle.
11.When asked about how it felt to bring everyone back together for the sequel while also adding such incredible names to the cast, David said, "It's awesome because it's like, this is a sequel now, so we get more money, and we spent it all! It's a bigger movie. It's bigger action, bigger stakes, and a bigger cast."
12.And, when asked what it was like having the new actors on-set, Jack joked, "Initially, I was like, 'Uh, I guess I'm not the star anymore?' which was weird because I was definitely the star in the first one!"
13.He went on to clarify, "No, it was great, and I befriended everybody. Lucy is now my bestest friend, along with Rachel and Helen Mirren...she's my bestest friend of all time."
14.Side note: But I kept getting distracted by how much Asher Angel has grown to look like a young Nate from Euphoria...like, is this not striking to anyone else? Just me?! Okay.
15.Anyway, to end the non-Q&A portion of the panel, they showed the crowd a sweet video message from Helen and Rachel, who couldn't be there due to scheduling conflicts. The clip consisted of them sending their love and excitement for the film to the crowd, and ended with Helen shouting "PUSSY POWER!" in reference to her kinship with her fellow sisters, which, according to David, was a phrase she also said a lot on-set.
16.NEXT UP, we had Black Adam and, y'all, Hall H underwent a DRAMATIC TRANSFORMATION.
17.All the lights went out, and the goofy fun from Shazam! was replaced with a rather aggressive smoke machine as the man, the myth, the Scorpion King of my Heart, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was risen on a platform in full Black Adam costume to shoot lightning at us, announcing "HALL H, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. THE DC UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN." It was a lot for a Saturday morning! I had only just had my coffee!!!
Through fog and lightning, the Man in Black has finally arrived to Hall H. #BlackAdam #SDCC