Great, if true.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Great, if true.
Have any of the comics ever addressed what will happen as Billy ages? Will he grow up to look like Shazam, or will he still change his appearance when he switches back and forth?The Shazam kids will be old enough to drink before the sequel comes out at this rateI really hope they've worked a significant time skip into the script, because my joke aside most if not all of the kids are either going to have to be recast or they'll just have to acknowledge the time passage, especially for the youngest kids.
I believe there have been comics where he was a teenager, and he still looked distinct from Captain Marvel. And in the '70s TV show, Billy was played by a twentysomething actor, though I think he was playing late teens. And he looked quite distinct from Captain Marvel (both actors).
The original idea in the Fawcett comics was basically that Captain Marvel was another being that swapped places with Billy, like Thor and Donald Blake were originally assumed to be. The idea that he was Billy Batson in a grown-up body came along in the post-Crisis relaunch, I think, when he was folded into the DC Universe. (Although the '70s show did occasionally treat CM as a continuation of Billy and vice-versa, e.g. Billy saying "I" when talking about something CM did, or CM reminding Mentor of a bet he'd made with Billy.)
The Jerry Ordway comics from the 90s had the Captain Marvel persona look like Billy's dad (and Mary Marvel like their mom).
Oh, yes, that's right, leading to one of its cleverest twists.
My favorite line in that had to be when Old Man Wayne is stepping on his throat to keep him from saying "Shazam!"
"Marvel's a wild card...I hate wild cards."
Kudos to anyone who gets that.
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Cool. Hopefully it can spin off some other Milestone characters, like maybe an Icon/Rocket film.
Although I guess this scuttles my hopes of Static showing up as a protege for Black Lightning on TV.
I’m not at all familiar with the character, so maybe there’s a specific reason why they won’t do 2 versions of him. But haven’t DC shown themselves to be very open to multiple versions of the same characters in different media at the same time?
Usually characters being developed for movies are off-limits to the TV series, to avoid confusion or competition or something. That's why we've had a ton of Batman-adjacent TV series but none with Bruce Wayne actually wearing the cape and cowl. It's why we haven't seen Wonder Woman or Booster Gold or Blue Beetle in the Arrowverse, why Arrow had to kill off their Suicide Squad and be cagey about Diggle getting a Green Lantern ring in the finale, etc. The Flash was an exception because the TV series came first and was too big a hit to cancel. Superman is an exception too, but note that he didn't get his own series until WB no longer seemed interested in doing more Superman movies.
I thought they’d eased up on that rule a bit recently, but I take your point.
I recall someone saying it's something the WB powers-that-be decide on a case-by-case basis. But if they want to use Static as the possible Iron Man of a Milestone Cinematic Universe, as I infer from the article, then I don't think they'd be inclined to step on that by having him make his live-action debut as a TV sidekick.
Might also be a rights issue, as I don't think DC actually owns the Milestone characters. Anyway, I'd rather they brought back Katana in the Black Lightning show.
Oh, I thought they'd acquired full ownership. Apparently not.
That would be cool. BL's in the Arrowverse now, and they have featured several other Outsiders characters, like Dr. Jace and revisionist versions of Looker and Geo-Force. I'm actually a bit surprised they haven't introduced Halo yet.
The comments about character rights being decided case-by-case came from Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, amongst others, so it's entirely possible that Static could end up appearing on Black Lightning as well as in a big-screen feature.
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Since Crisis on Infinite Earths established that the DCEU and Arrowverse are part of the same mutliverse, they could theoretically have the same version on BL and in the movie. I doubt they would do that, but you never know, we did get the DCEU Flash in Crisis after all, and if you told me that was going to happen before it did, I wouldn't have believed you.