‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ First Trailer is All About the Family

Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the first trailer for “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, this Saturday. The film which is a sequel to the 2019 movie, will release in theaters internationally beginning December 15, 2022, and in North America on December 21, 2022.

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word “SHAZAM!,” is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.

The trailer begins with Zachary Levi's Shazam cursing himself while talking about other existing DCEU superheroes. The trailer shows a glimpse of Ben Affleck's Batman, Jason Momoa's Aquaman, and Ezra Miller's The Flash. However, the tailer's most interesting part is when Shazam confesses that he has seen all the Fast and the Furious movies and tells Helen Mirren's Hespera, "It's all about family!" The trailer shows a lot of action-packed scenes with the superhero family fighting evil to save the world.

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” stars returning cast members Zachary Levi as Shazam; Asher Angel as Billy Batson; Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman; Adam Brody as Super Hero Freddy; Ross  Butler as Super Hero Eugene; Meagan Good as Super Hero Darla;  D.J.  Cotrona as  Super  Hero  Pedro; Grace Caroline Currey as Mary Bromfield / Super Hero Mary; Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley; Ian Chen as Eugene Choi; Jovan Armand as Pedro Pena; Marta Milans as Rosa Vasquez; Cooper Andrews as Victor Vasquez; and Djimon Hounsou as Wizard. Joining the cast in this film is Rachel Zegler, with Lucy Liu as Kalypso, and Helen Mirren as Hespera. 

The film is directed by David F. Sandberg and produced by Peter Safran. It is written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, based on characters from DC. Shazam! was created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck. Executive producers are Walter Hamada, Adam Schlagman, Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Victoria Palmeri, Marcus Viscidi and Geoff Johns. 

Joining director Sandberg behind the camera are, the director of photography Gyula  Pados, production designer Paul Kirby and editor Michel Aller (“Shazam!,” “The Nun”). The music supervisor is Season Kent and the music is by Christophe Beck (“Free Guy,” “Frozen II”). Visual effects supervisors are Bruce Jones (“Aquaman,” “It”) and Raymond Chen (“Alita: Battle Angel,” “The Meg”). The costume designer is Louise Mingenbach (“Jumanji: The Next Level,” “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”). 

New Line Cinema presents A Peter Safran Production of A David  F. Sandberg Film, “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”

The first Shazam! movie, which was released on April 5, 2019, grossed $140.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $225.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $366 million. It was estimated that the film needed to gross $235–250 million worldwide to break even, and it ended up making a net profit of $74 million when factoring together all expenses and revenues.