A full week after “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” was released in cinemas, the film’s star Zachary Levi has used an Instagram video to weigh in on all the drama surrounding the DC comic tentpole film and its post-credits scene.
On Tuesday, a report came at The Wrap indicating Dwayne Johnson allegedly nixed planned post-credits stingers for both “Black Adam” and the “Shazam” sequel that would have linked the properties, instead we get a scene where Shazam is recruited to join the Justice Society by two regulars from HBO Max’s “Peacemaker”.
Levi himself posted an Instagram story that screen captured the key facts of the article and added the caption “the truth shall set you free”.
Today the former “Chuck” actor has gone beyond that, confirming in the video that the “Black Adam” characters of Cyclone and Hawkman were blocked from appearing in the post-credits scene. However, he doesn’t name Johnson in his post:
“I may or may not have, you know, reposted something in my stories about a story that I had nothing to do with, that [The Wrap] had reported on. And then I got flack about it, because people were saying, ‘What are you doing? You’re trying to blame this guy because your movie’s not doing well.’ Listen, I haven’t blamed anybody. There’s not one single person that I have blamed for anything about the way that our movie has performed.
People are slagging on James Gunn because Jennifer Holland, his wife who is an actor and is in ‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Suicide Squad’… we used Jennifer and Steve in that scene in ‘Shazam’. That was not the original intent.
The original intent was to have Hawkeye and Cyclone to be there inviting me into the Justice Society. Walter Hamada, Peter Safran, David Sandberg… we had an awesome scene and we were thwarted… I’m merely coming to the defense of the truth. Truth is good. We should all live in it.”
“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” opened to $30 million domestically, far below the $53 million of the original. Levi previously wrote in a Tweet that the film’s marketing was a big issue as it was not promoted as a family movie.
He adds in the new video: “It’s a real shame if comic book movies have gotten to place where they have to be nothing but serious and nothing but intense and nothing but dark. That’s a sad day. I don’t know what else to say about that.”
“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” is now playing in cinemas nationwide.
Source: Instagram
