I’m so emotionally torn on this one. It appears New Line (The guys who did Lord of the Rings among other things) is slowly moving forward with making a Captain Marvel movie. As a young kid I used to love Captain Marvel. There was even a short lived live action show based on the character that I would watch every Saturday morning. I would love to see this film√¢‚Ǩ¬¶ BUT√¢‚Ǩ¬¶
Just the concept of a Shazam film is loaded with cheesiness potential. How you could go about making this movie in 2004 without it looking ridiculous or totally betraying the character will be quite a challenge. It would be a brave thing to try, but I don’t know if it could be pulled off. I guess it will all depend on the script.
The scripters of the new version of Cheaper by the Dozen, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, have been tapped to take a swing at a script for SHAZAM!
SHAZAM! Is the touching story of a small boy, Billy Batson, who becomes a giant superhero, Captain Marvel, when he utters his magic word (you guessed it, SHAZAM! Strange, it never worked for Gomer Pyle…). There’s a previous script, written by currently descending into hideous hackdom writer William Goldman, but it’s not known what elements from that script are being saved. New Line, who owns the project, may very well be pushing it forward because a similar themed project based on Marvel Comics owned character Prime (which basically ripped off Captain Marvel) has been slowly moving ahead in recent months.
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