There are plenty of things that make me geek out, but this is one of those that makes me doubly excited!
My favorite comic book writer will be adapting one of my favorite comic book characters to the big screen!
If you’re only familiar with the phrase “Shazam!” because of the band or the music serach engine or because it’s what Gomer Pyle says when he gets excited, you’re sadly uninformed.
“Shazam!” is what Billy Batson shouts to become the original, the one and only, the true Captain Marvel. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character was Fawcett Comics’ answer to Superman. Billy Batson, a teen who works as a radio news reporter was chosen to be a champion of good by the wizard Shazam. When he says the wizard’s name he transforms into the powerful Captain Marvel.
Although there was a short lived TV series in the 1970s, a film adaptation has long been in development. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been attached to play Marvel’s nemesis, Black Adam, altough I’m not sure if that’s still the case.
Geoff Johns, the writer behind Green Lantern, JSA, Blackest Night and multitudes of other DC Comics goodness is now producing and co-writing. Finally DC is starting to get in the game. Johns is also working on a Flash movie and there is a Green Lantern movie that will soon start shooting with Ryan Reynolds in the lead.
Newsarama has the story here.
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