Shazam! Fury of the Gods

'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Captain Marvel. Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, The Safran Company, and Mad Ghost Productions, and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is intended to be the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the fourteenth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It is directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Henry Gayden, and stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Djimon Hounsou, Rachel Zegler, Helen Mirren, and Lucy Liu. A sequel to Shazam! began development shortly after that film's release in April 2019, with Gayden returning as writer. Sandberg and Levi were also set to return by that December. The title and rest of the returning cast were confirmed in August 2020, with Zegler, Mirren, and Liu cast as the antagonists in early 2021. Filming began that May in Atlanta, Georgia and wrapped in August.

''Shazam! Fury of the Gods'' is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 2, 2023.

Plot
In this sequel, we will see to follow the hero and his now superpowered foster family as they protect the world from the Three Faces of Evil, ancient enemies of the Wizard Shazam who have been awoken by their enemies' death and plans to take over the Seven Magical Realms. Some of the film's main events will include:


 * Billy and his family visiting and adventuring through some of the Seven Magical Realms that they are now tasked to protect which includes the Funlands, the Gamelands, the Wildlands, the Wozenderlands, the Dreamlands and the Darklands. The gates that lead to the Monsterlands will also be shown but the characters will not go through them as they have been sealed long ago by the Seven Wizards to prevent the terrible creatures that lies beyond them from storming the other worlds.
 * Billy Batson falling in love with his classmate cheer captain Cissie Sommerly who shares his feelings. In order to impress her, Billy will enlist at the basketball school team.
 * Billy Batson adopting the official superhero name of Captain Marvel under suggestion of his fiancee Cissie and his best friend Freddy.
 * Freddy Freeman will fall in love with one of the three witch sisters, the youngest of them, who initially disguised as a normal girl in order to deceive them but will end up falling in love with Freddy for real. In the end, she will betray her older sisters and side with the Marvel Family to be with Freddy. She took the alias of Sabrina.
 * The characters will meet Tawky Tawny, the Wizard Shazam's former assistant, who will become one of their closest allies.
 * The Wizard Shazam will return as a spirit to train Captain Marvel and his siblings in the Rock of Eternity and guide them through the adventure.
 * Among the many funny scenes of the movies, the characters will end up in the Dreamlands, the realm where the dreams and nightmares of mankind are created. To escape their enemies while temporarily powerless, Billy and his siblings will go through the nightmare zone where their nightmares becomes real (at least for them). Freddy's worst nightmare is to be in school in his underwear thus causing the whole family to live a "Not Wearing Pants" Dream trope. It gets even funnier when the villains go through the zone to chase them and end up in their underwears too. Another funny scene will see the Three Faces of Evil summoning their monster army who marches toward Philadelphia only for the witches to point at the city being in the opposite direction. Also, in a scene that pay homage to Roald Dahl's Witches, the Three Faces of Evil will capture Freddy and turns him into a mouse. Where Billy and Darla manages to free him from the curse they will try various spells and formulas and each will transform Freddy into different and bizzarre forms (a freaky tentacled monster, a woman from the neck down and a 2D Tasmanian Devil) before finally returning to normal.
 * In a flashback, we shall see the Seven Wizards (including a younger version of Shazam) defeating the Three Faces of Evil and their allies (among the many fans shall recognize Captain Marvel's villains Mister Atom, King Kull, Herkimer, Jeepers as well as the fairy tale villains the Wicked Witch of the West and the Red Queen astride the Jabberwocky).
 * The Three Faces of Evil will summon and commands an army of mythological monsters: cyclops, minotaurs, harpies, chimeras, cerberus and fauns.
 * Over the course of the film, Captain Marvel will become significantly more powerful and much more skilled with his superpowers (he will also learn to make a lot more magic) to the point of reaching Superman-like power levels. In fact, his punches will cause shockwaves and he will learn to move at unphantomable speed (during a flying training he will casually end up from the Earth to Vega and back!). The Three Faces of Evil will be referred by Shazam to possess enough power to destroy entire planets and yet Billy and his family will defeat them after resisting their maximum magic.
 * In the last scene, Billy is playing basketball with his school team with his whole family (including Tawky Tawny) cheering for him. Billy end up making the winning dunk and the whole school praise him while Cissie runs to his side and kiss him. Billy asks if this mean that they're dating to which she reply "Sure!" before leading him out to the crowd who then hails him as a hero for his victory, picks him up, and takes him away cheering while Billy also notice the Wizard happily smiling at his champion among the crowd.

Cast

 * Zachary Levi as Captain Marvel: The champion of the wizard Shazam and the superhero alter-ego of teenager Billy Batson, who possesses "the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury".
 * Asher Angel as Billy Batson: A teenager and foster child who transforms into a superhero by saying "Shazam!".
 * Jack Dylan Grazer as Frederick "Freddy" Freeman: Billy's best friend and a fan of superheroes. Adam Brody plays the character's adult superhero form.
 * John Rhys-Davies as Tawky Tawny: an humanoid tiger and inhabitant of the Wildlands who has long been working for the Wizard Shazam and has waited a long time for the coming of the new champions of magic. He will become the boys' guardian and eventually goes to live with their family. While he is normally humanoid, he has the ability to turn into a gigantic four-legged tiger with Smilodon-like fangs. Despite this, he is strictly a vegetarian and his favorite meal is spinach puffs. John Rhys-Davies provides the character's voice and facial motion capture while stuntman Ian Whyte portrays the character on set wearing a mo-cap suit.
 * Djimon Hounsou as Shazam: An ancient wizard who gave Billy his powers after naming him as champion.
 * Rachel Zegler, Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu as The Three Faces Of Evil: A triumvirate of powerful witches/goddesses of the underworld who assumed various identities through the ages and countries including the Fates, the Weird Sisters etc. They are able to conjure together into a a gigantic, hideous and unfathomably strong three-headed demon dragon.
 * Allison Brennan as Cissie Sommerly: Billy Batson's classmate and love interest.

Billy's foster family also includes Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley, Billy's good-natured younger foster sister with Meagan Good as her adult superhero form; Grace Fulton as Mary Bromfield, Billy's mature, academically-driven older foster sister (Fulton also portrays Mary's adult superhero form); Ian Chen as Eugene Choi, Billy's younger foster brother and an obsessive gamer with Ross Butler as his adult superhero form; Jovan Armand as Pedro Peña, Billy's older foster brother and a shy, sensitive boy with D. J. Cotrona as his adult superhero form; Marta Milans as Rosa Vásquez, the foster mother of Billy and his siblings; and Cooper Andrews as Víctor Vásquez, Billy and his siblings' foster father. Corey Burton, Kevin Sorbo and Jim Cummings guest stars as the voices of respectively Zeus, Hercules and Solomon, three of the gods that empowers the Marvel Family, who will appear in Billy Batson's mind where they restore his powers. Jim Cummings also voiced the Chesire Cat who appears in the Wozenderlands as well as a rhino police officer in the Wildlands while Corey Burton voiced the presenter of the Gamelands, the White Rabbit and the Caterpillar in the Wozenderlands, and the lion king of the Wildlands.