“I may or may not have, you know, reposted something in my stories about a story that I had nothing to do with, that had reported on,” Levi said. Levi originally made headlines for sharing The Wrap’s post on his Instagram story with the caption: “The truth will set you free.” While he did not name Dwayne Johnson then or in his new Instgram video, he did confirm that Cyclone and Hawkman were blocked from appearing in the post-credits scene. The “Fury of the Gods” post-credits scene finds Shazam being recruited to join the Justice Society, a group of heroes introduced in Johnson’s “Black Adam.” In the film, it’s Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) and John Economos (Steve Agee) from Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” and “Peacemaker” who appear to recruit Shazam, not Cyclone and Hawkman. “Black Adam” also underperformed at the box office, and both Johnson and Cavill are not included in the new DC Universe being spearheaded by DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. Johnson headlined “Black Adam” and aimed to start a new thread of the DC Universe built around his character facing off against Henry Cavill’s Superman. In a video, the actor confirmed that plans for the “Fury of the Gods” post-credits scene - in which Shazam is recruited to join the Justice Society - were “thwarted,” although he did not say by who.Ī report from The Wrap published after “Fury of the God’s” opening weekend claimed that Dwayne Johnson sabotaged the “Shazam” post-credits scene by blocking “Black Adam” characters Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell) and Hawkman (Aldis Hodge) from appearing in it. Levi shared The Wrap’s report on his Instagram stories with the caption, “The truth shall set you free.Almost a week after “ Shazam! Fury of the Gods” opened in theaters and bombed at the box office, Zachary Levi took to Instagram to weigh in on a whole lot of drama surrounding the DC comic book tentpole. Black Adam and Shazam are connected in the comic books that inspired the movies, so they were primed for a theatrical crossover-but Johnson instead tried to use his film to bring Henry Cavill’s Superman back into the fold, teasing a DCEU cage match worthy of Johnson’s WWE tenure. In his attempt last year to reorient the DCEU around his Black Adam character, Johnson allegedly flexed his muscles to remove two members of the Justice Society from the Fury of the Gods post-credits sequence in (Jennifer Holland’s Emilia Harcourt and Steve Agee’s John Economos, last seen in the Peacemaker TV series, take their place), and blocked Levi from making a Shazam cameo in Black Adam. The Monday Morning Quarterbacking continued when a report from The Wrap suggested that Fury of the Gods was kneecapped by none other than Dwayne Johnson. (The foley artist deserves an award for how gnarly the blood splatter sounds.) On that point, he’s half-right: Fury of the Gods, like the first film, centers on family, but it also features a mind-controlled teacher walking off a rooftop and hitting the ground-which we know because we see the body. under the bus for failing to market the movie as a family film. On Twitter, a place Levi should maybe consider avoiding for a bit, he quote-tweeted a guy with 87 followers who bemoaned Zack Snyder fans who were “happy for” the film’s failure, saying “Sad, but true," then throwing Warner Bros. That’s exactly what Shazam! Fury of the Gods star Chuck Bartowski Zachary Levi is currently doing-likely to his detriment.Īfter Fury of the Gods' paltry opening weekend, Levi-in a flurry of perhaps relatable but definitely cringe behavior-began wildly sowing blame. But less-established are especially vulnerable to a bomb, and some find themselves defending their work. No actor likes to lose at the box office.
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