How Dwayne Johnson ruined everything for the Shazam sequel, and Zachary Levi isn't helping either
The Wrap (via Comic Book Movie) says that if there was anything else besides the poor screenplay and performances in Shazam: Fury of the Gods that scuttled it, the culprit includes a certain somebody whose talents are fuzzy at best:
Even without Johnson's meddling in the film productions, though, Zachary Levi hasn't made things better with the way he views the marketing, as Breitbart's John Nolte describes:
Of course, any interference Johnson performed in regards to Fury of the Gods, let's consider, however, is only serving as a cheap excuse for both Hollywood and the press to obscure whether the LGBT pandering played a role in the movie's downfall. When will they be willing to debate all that? Probably never. And by that time, the whole craze for producing live action movies and TV shows based on DC/Marvel creations will have faded away. And when that happens, it'll be for the best.
In The Rock’s attempt to position himself at the center of the Universe, he vetoed a post-credits scene featuring Zachary Levi’s character, insiders sayWell, that's surely commonplace in Tinseltown, for actors and directors with inflated egos to strut around like they own the place, and do whatever they can to see that everything is done according to their personal vanity ideas. And for Johnson, the saddest part about his and the screenwriters' approach was that they relied on woke metaphors, much like the Shazam sequel does. That aside, Johnson is such an overrated "actor" that to watch anything starring him, IMO, requires anticipating a lot of aggravation along the way.
The underwhelming $65 million worldwide debut of “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” is another black mark for the DC Universe, the second-string superhero stable. But there’s another villain, insiders told TheWrap: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose behind-the-scenes maneuvering to boost another DC property — “Black Adam,” in which he starred — may well end up tanking both franchises, they said.
To be clear, DC has a host of problems that aren’t Johnson’s fault, which is why Warner Bros. Discovery is attempting a reboot under James Gunn and Peter Safran. But in trying to shape “Black Adam” as the new center of the DC Universe — a strategy that failed to bolster “Black Adam” and undercut the once-promising “Shazam” franchise — Johnson may have kneecapped both, painting a portrait of a celebrity who put his own brand before the work.
Even without Johnson's meddling in the film productions, though, Zachary Levi hasn't made things better with the way he views the marketing, as Breitbart's John Nolte describes:
The film’s star, Zachary Levi, is blaming the marketing.Levi's idea of "family fare" is clearly very warped, and he's not willing to consider any more than the rest of the studio and contributors to this dreadful farce. One more reason nobody should feel sorry their pretentious production's taken a nose dive, and whatever hopes they had for a long-running franchise have collapsed pretty quickly.
To a point, I agree. Once Shazam! Fury of the Gods began catering to America’s woketards with the promise that one of Shazam’s sidekicks would come out as gay, it undoubtedly hurt the box office. People are beyond tired of this nonsense, most especially parents.
Nevertheless, even if Levi believed that that was the cause, he couldn’t say it and remain employable. In fact, Levi laughably described Shazam! Fury of the Gods as a family movie: [emphasis added]:
In a fan Q&A, Levi wrote that the “biggest issue” with Fury of the Gods was “marketing.” He also said that while he’s not blaming the box office on Zack Snyder fans, he acknowledged that there is a particularly vocal cadre of Snyder devotees online who eagerly root for any other DC project to fail.
One Shazam fan tweeted, “There is no denying that at the moment there are many Snyder fans who are happy for the failure of your film and many of them wish that everything that is to come fails just for not continuing with the films of their director.”
“This is also true,” Levi wrote in response. “Sad, but true. How much that actually affects the box office is anyone’s guess. But I think the biggest issue we’re having is marketing. This is a perfect family movie, and yet a lot of families aren’t aware of that. Which is just a shame.”
Except Shazam! Fury of the Gods did not advertise itself as a family movie—quite the opposite. The moment families hear that a movie contains adult sexuality in the form of homosexuality, they know it is not a movie for kids. No sane parent wants to 1) undermine their child’s innocence prematurely or 2) have to explain alternate sexual lifestyles to a little kid on the way home from the movies.
Of course, any interference Johnson performed in regards to Fury of the Gods, let's consider, however, is only serving as a cheap excuse for both Hollywood and the press to obscure whether the LGBT pandering played a role in the movie's downfall. When will they be willing to debate all that? Probably never. And by that time, the whole craze for producing live action movies and TV shows based on DC/Marvel creations will have faded away. And when that happens, it'll be for the best.
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