Hey folks, Harry here... The concept that New Line has wrestled SHAZAM... freakin' Captain Marvel away from Warner Brothers is a fact that should be celebrated atop the highest mountain. OK... Now what to do with it. Give it to Tim McCanlies - Let him cast Haley Joel Osment, who he's working on SECOND HAND LIONS right now with - to make a period SHAZAM movie set during WWII. Structure 3 Captain Marvel stories all at once... Shoot just the Billy Batson parts of the stories first so that Billy stays the exact same age throughout the trilogy. In the final film introduce MARY MARVEL and CAPTAIN MARVEL JR. Introduce Mr Tawny in the second one. Villain in the first film Sylvania, second film Mr Mind in the third - the whole Marvel Family takes on WW2. Just as Peter Jackson hired Alan Lee and John Howe because they are the two most important artists to translate Tolkien to screen, so must you pay whatever it takes to get ALEX ROSS & JERRY ORDWAY to help translate the good Captain to screen. I know Tim McCanlies... He's a Captain Marvel nutjob, and a great filmmaker to boot - and you currently are making a movie with him... This would just be balls deep great. Oh and Frank Miller's RONIN would be nifty, but not nearly as nifty as a Captain Marvel movie... Hire Christopher Lee to play SHAZAM. Sorry... it just had to be said, hire Richard Taylor to design his cave. ACK! Must stop... I'm such a geek...
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New Line Cinema is teaming with DC Comics to create a feature based on the classic comicbook "Shazam!" New Line is in final negotiations with DC to acquire feature rights on the 60-year-old title, in which mild-mannered Billy Batson discovers that he can call on the powers of an ancient Egyptian wizard, Shazam, and thereafter undertakes heroic exploits.
The "Shazam!" name is an acronym for six gods and heroes of the ancient world: the wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules, stamina of Atlas, power of Zeus, courage of Achilles and speed of Mercury.
Comics industry vet and "Batman" franchise exec producer Michael Uslan will serve as executive producer on the project.
"We're pleased to be developing one of the gems of our library with one of our sister companies," said DC publisher Paul Levitz. DC and New Line are both owned by AOL Time Warner.
New Line VPs Christopher Godsick and Mark Kaufman are developing the property for the studio.
Also in development at New Line is the DC property "Ronin," created by Frank Miller.
What gets me is frank miller's ronin.It's about time that Warners/DC got there act together and show the public that they have much more than supes and bats.
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