They’re using the Geoff Johns reimagining as the core of their Shazam movies and even he got that right.
Yes, I know this is was last week’s Jake & Leon but a recent interview by Johnson in Vanity Fair just came to my attention that made it even more fitting now. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson seems to hate Billy Batson after reading this interview. It’s not about accuracy, it’s about ego and fighting the “big name”. I suppose that shouldn’t be a big surprise seeing as he comes from the world of professional wrestling, where fighting the top name in the organization gets you the most attention by fans and by the bookers looking to see who should be the current champion.
Then again, I doubt he knows who Billy Batson is, since I’d be surprised if he read a comic book. He certainly didn’t read Shazam! or any of the previous Fawcett comics. He wants Superman, he wants to be an antihero if not outright evil, and he doesn’t care what the comics are doing. This is another example of how celebrities see storytelling versus the fans who want to see the characters they love continue on in a different media format to see what that format can do with him. Art Of Storytelling, the article series here at BW, has gone over what each type of media can do that others can’t. (I’ve run out of those so the series will be shifting focus next time I do one.) It’s why I also enjoy Star Trek comics, audio dramas, games, and novels. I want to see what they can do but I want to feel like it’s the same franchise. As we see in the interview with Johnson it’s all about ego…like most Hollywood celebs.
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What did you think Bruce was doing all those years traveling the world? Learning how to punch? Why is so hard to believe that in searching for new ways of stealth combat and otherwise useless information about the world he wasn’t learning about people, too? For I think the reason he gives ex-cons a job so they won’t go back to being Penguin’s henchmen or something is that when studying criminals he realize that not every criminal commits crimes because they’re evil but because they’re fighting to survive. That’s why some ex-cons go back into crime, because they can’t adjust to a society that won’t give them a second chance. So he gives them that chance.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 17, 2022 in Uncategorized and tagged aspirational heroes, Batman, Captain America, commentary, Jedi, Luke Skywalker, Professor Geek, Superman.
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