‘Shazam: Fury of The Gods’ Second Trailer Breakdown
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On Thursday, Warner Bros. released just the second trailer for the long-awaited Shazam! sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The first trailer was released back in July at San Diego Comic-Con, just before its final delay to its current March 17 release date. One may recall that it almost went up against Avatar: The Way of Water. This last delay, bringing the total to 50 weeks, was caused by the formation of Warner Bros. Discovery left them unable to afford marketing and distribution for more than a couple of films for the rest of the year. Now in this new year, marketing can pick up with 7 weeks left before release. Let’s see what they’ve got.
Set to “Started From The Bottom” by Drake, this trailer doesn’t take any time namedropping the other heroes in its universe, like at the therapy session with the pediatrician seen in the first trailer, and is instead very focused on itself. Though the brief recap about his getting superpowers is slightly sooner in this trailer. The film is set to bring us back to the days of The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: Days of Future Past with stadium-set destruction. And it’s going to be well before the dragon shows up, as Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies, will have its field uprooted by a seed Kalypso (played by Lucy Liu) embeds. Unless it’s Levi’s Stadium (home of the San Francisco 49ers), where some of the filming took place, made up to be it.
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Kalypso is one of the Daughters of Atlas, godlike beings who are miffed that the champions are children taking their powers for granted, which feels at odds with the self-doubt. And so Hespera (played by Helen Mirren seeks to annihilate everything, giving Shazam a mighty powerful kick. The Daughters of Atlas are ready to take it all back, as it’s Atlas’s stamina that serves as the first A in “SHAZAM” and a component of the powers. Shazam slams the dragon through a skyscraper, and the daughters take the siblings on a platform while forming an energy dome around the city, one that Shazam can’t break. It becomes so overwhelming that Shazam asks Shazam (the wizard) to take the powers back, and the wizard is absolutely mortified at the mere suggestion and has to give the second wind. Monsters are unleashed on the city, and in some night scene, Shazam takes on Kalypso and the dragon alone in what looks so much like a climax. This trailer very may well have given too much away. It would be terrible if the rescue of the family was the only part of the main plot withheld from the trailers while everything else was shown.
Shazam: Fury of the Gods leads a 2023 theatrical slate for DC that features the also-delayed The Flash and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, as well as Blue Beetle, which moved from an HBO Max release. This set marks the last hurrah for the film universe, which began with Man of Steel in 2013, a world where explicit Black Adam connections are still lacking. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is set to reveal the first morsel of the new slate soon. It’s unknown how much these films are lame ducks in building the universe, but Zachary Levi believes he and possibly his whole cast will be one of the survivors. At least the IMAX screens will be available.
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