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James Gunn, alongside producing associate and co-CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran, is now the person with the plan over at Marvel’s biggest rivals. The Guardians of the Galaxy director has his fingers in all of the pies, formally starting with DCU Chapter 1 – Gods & Monsters, which kicks off in 2025. Nevertheless, we all know he’ll have a hand in anything that DC releases within the run-up to that point. Besides, it appears, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which has managed to flee Gunn-free.
Director David F. Sandberg assured followers throughout a current eye-opening Reddit chat that his incoming Shazam! sequel was not impacted in any means by the Gunn/Safran takeover. The filmmaker revealed that the film has been accomplished and within the can since earlier than the pair stepped into their new omnipotent roles final fall, and neither of them have tampered with it or ordered adjustments to be made within the time since.
“The completed film was delivered finish of October final yr, so proper earlier than he formally started the job,” Sandberg defined. “Positive, typically productions can add scenes or do adjustments final minute however nothing has modified on Shazam. It’s a freestanding story and so they’ve advised me it doesn’t have an effect on or intervene with future DC plans so no motive to alter something.”
After Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania had its ending modified simply weeks previous to its launch, and undoubtedly not for the higher, it’s undoubtedly encouraging to listen to that Shazam! 2 will not be the work of a equally frantic manufacturing course of and is one hundred pc the story Sandberg meant to inform. On the opposite, these desirous to witness the beginning of Gunn’s dominion over DC may be disillusioned to know they should wait a little bit bit longer, in all probability till this summer season’s The Flash.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is out in theaters this March 17.