“Oh. My. Gods,” cries the latest poster for the upcoming DC sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Released in anticipation of the imminent trailer, the poster finds Zachary Levi standing front-and-center, with the surrounding images teasing all manner of action involving dragons, gods, and superheroes. Check out the new poster (via IGN) for Shazam! Fury of the Gods below.
Released back in 2019, the first Shazam! introduced audiences to Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a troubled orphan searching for his biological mother, who is chosen by the ancient wizard Shazam as his champion. When he speaks the word “Shazam” he is transformed into Zachary Levi, his superhero alter-ego, who possesses “the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury.”
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Shazam! remains one of the best-reviewed outings in the DC Cinematic Universe, with the sequel all set to pick up with Billy Batson and his adoptive family as fully-fledged heroes facing their greatest threat.
“Bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter-egos,” the official synopsis for Shazam! Fury of the Gods reads. “But when the Daughters of Atlas, a vengeful trio of ancient gods, arrive on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago, Billy—aka Shazam—and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of their world.”
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods Adds Lucy Liu & Helen Mirren as the Villains
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The threat at the center of Shazam! Fury of the Gods will be posed by Kill Bill star Lucy Liu and Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, with the pair playing the daughters of Atlas Kalypso and Hespera, respectively.
The Shazam! sequel will also bring West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Rachel Zegler into the fray, with the actress set to portray the third daughter of Atlas, Anthea.
Directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, Shazam! Fury of the Gods sees several actors reprise their roles from the first outing, including Zachary Levi and Asher Angel as Billy Batson and Shazam, Jack Dylan Grazer and Adam Brody as Frederick “Freddy” Freeman, Ross Butler and Ian Chen as Eugene Choi, Meagan Good, and Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley, Grace Fulton as Mary Bromfield, D. J. Cotrona and Jovan Armand as Pedro Peña, and Djimon Hounsou as the wizard Shazam.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is scheduled to be released in the United States on Mar. 17. The Shazam! sequel is expected to be one of the last DC outings in the original slate of the DCU alongside The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, with Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran having now taken over as the heads of DC Studios.
