Jake Gyllenhaal to play Shazam?

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I’m just excited about seeing Shazam on the big screen, but he’s one of those super-types that a bunch of different people could play.

Jake Gyllenhaal may soon collect an awfully big paycheck as America’s latest superhero. We hear New Line execs are keen to have the “Brokeback Mountain” hunk play Captain Marvel in “Shazam!” Based on the DC comic, the movie is New Line’s bid for a franchise on the order of “Batman” and “Superman.” “They’re ready to spend up to $200 million to get it started,” an insider tells us. Sources say director Peter Segal and his fellow producers want to nab Gyllenhaal before “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi does – with “Spider-Man 3″ due to open on May 4, star Tobey Maguire has said he may let someone else play the web slinger.

The NY Daily

Shazam won’t be a huge as Spider-Man and probably not as big as the coming Iron Man, but I think it still could be cool in it’s own right.

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