Shazam<\/em> is about to become a huge success with an already big boost.<\/p>\nVariety’s Justin Kroll reports that screenwriter Darren Lemke – who penned the scripts for Shrek Forever After<\/em> and Jack the Giant Slayer<\/em>, and is penning the upcoming Goosebumps<\/em> movie – will be writing the screenplay for the Shazam<\/em> movie. With the New 52 approach to the characters, we predict Kroll will have a lot of inspiration to draw from.<\/p>\nIt is in fact possible that the Shazam<\/em> movie project is actually more of a Black Adam project, focusing instead on Black Adam and his attempts to take power from Shazam. While unlikely, it would definitely be a twist on the traditional “good guy” story arc if the screenplay goes in this direction.<\/p>\nSo, what do you think of the whole Shazam<\/em> project? Who do you expect will play Shazam himself? Sound off in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While many have speculated on whether Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will appear in the upcoming Shazam movie, today it is finally official that he will star in the Warner Bros.-New Line Cinema superhero film adaptation! However, he will not be playing the infamous Shazam; rather, he will play Black Adam, Shazam’s enemy! According to Johnson’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,388],"tags":[646,644,112,643,645],"yst_prominent_words":[8639,10608,5891,10605,10609,6413,7507,10611,5885,7666,10610,7394,10612,10607,10606,5780,7871,7492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52247,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/52247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Considering the rising popularity of superhero movies worldwide, and with Dwayne Johnson bringing his own star brand to the film project, we predict Shazam<\/em> is about to become a huge success with an already big boost.<\/p>\n