Captain Marvel is coming to the big screen. Shazam!

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The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Shazam in the works. It will be New Line Cinema’s adaptation of a DC Comics series featuring the hero Captain Marvel.

The comic book series focuses on Billy Batson, a teenager who becomes the superhero known as Captain Marvel when he utters the magic word “Shazam!” The name is an acronym for six gods and heroes of the ancient world as well as their attributes: the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Aries, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury.

Anyone remember the old television series (link to the intro at the end)? I loved watching that show on Saturday mornings and I bet other people do too. It could be pretty cool if done right and a complete disaster if done wrong. We’ll have to wait and see.

“It’s a unique opportunity to do a comic book movie where the character in it actually read comic books,” said August, who has started writing the script. “What’s terrific about the character is that he looks like this superstudly superhero but is really a 13-year-old boy. And to approach everything that is great about a superhero movie from a 13-year-old boy’s perspective was a unique way in.”

Hollywood Reporter

That was one of the great things that the character was just a kid (which another comic company copied with Prime) although in the television show, Billy Batson was older. I think if the stick to the roots of the real Shazam, they could have a fun movie.

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