Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a superhero movie based on the DC Comics character Shazam. The film is the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the 12th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The movie is directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, and stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren.
A sequel to Shazam! began development shortly after that film’s release in April 2019, with Gayden returning as writer. Sandberg and Levi (Shazam) were also set to return by that December. The title and rest of the returning cast were confirmed in August 2020, including Asher as Billy Batson. Zegler, Mirren, and Liu were cast as the daughters of Atlas in early 2021. Filming began that May in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded in August.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods premiered at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on March 9, 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 17, 2023.
The newest and the last trailer of the movie features Eminem‘s gold-certified single, “Business,” from The Eminem Show album. In the song, Eminem and Dre use the same superhero theme to get rid of the real villain — bad lyricism.
In his book The Way I Am (p. 175) Eminem shared that as a little boy, he watched Batman on his mom’s black and white TV. He wanted “Business” to be “the rap version” of Batman, with Dre as Batman and himself as Robin. He adds that from the beginning he and Dre planned to “grow beards and get weird.”
You can watch the trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods below:
