Shazam has made his way to toy store shelves.
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A photograph of a “Thunder Punch Shazam” action figure featuring Zachary Levi’s likeness from the Shazam movie has surfaced online.
Take a look below:
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This is sure to be just the first in a large wave of Shazam merchandise.
Rumor has it that New Line Cinema will drop the second trailer for Shazam later this month. A rumored description of the trailer surfaced online yesterday. The report suggests the trailer will include several references to Batman and Superman.
Shazam stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson and Zachary Levi as Batson’s mystically-powered superhero alter ego, the titular Shazam. The film is directed by David F. Sandberg.
Here’s the synopsis:
“We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Asher Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard (Djimon Hounsou). Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? 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).”
Angel and Levi have previously hinted at what fans can expect from the new film.
“It is a family movie,” said Angel. “I think him and Superman have a lot in common. He can basically do everything Superman can do.”
“It is you [Angel] in me,” Levi said. “It’s a fourteen-year-old kid. You’re the Earth’s Mightiest Mortal.”
“I can’t tell you much, as you can probably imagine, but what I can say is I am just out of my mind excited!” Levi said in a separate interview. “I get to do my version of Big, basically. It’s like Superman meets Big, and that’s just so fun. I get to be a superhero that’s excited about being a superhero, and I think that’s refreshing. It’s not glum, and like, ‘Oh, I have to save the world again.’ So I think it’s all really gravy.”
Are you excited about Shazam!? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Shazam! will open in theaters on April 5, 2019.
Aquaman is now playing in theaters. Upcoming DC Extended Universe movies include Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn) on February 7, 2020, and Wonder Woman 1984 on June 5, 2020.
