Shazam!!!

[TheWatcher]

Hes an actor who has IMO excelled at "big" childlike characters (if they do the whole human body, Batson mind take) and has been a pretty decent adventure hero, despite the overall quality Fraser was really good in The Mummy movies. You on the other hand have been suggesting a guy favored mainly for his appearance whos resume includes bit parts in Dodgeball, Reno 911, and Mr Deeds none of which has suggested any capability in performing Captain Marvel outside of looking good on the poster.

i know thats what i was thinking,plus he's star power

 

[Billy Batson]

Hes an actor who has IMO excelled at "big" childlike characters (if they do the whole human body, Batson mind take) and has been a pretty decent adventure hero, despite the overall quality Fraser was really good in The Mummy movies. You on the other hand have been suggesting a guy favored mainly for his appearance whos resume includes bit parts in Dodgeball, Reno 911, and Mr Deeds none of which has suggested any capability in performing Captain Marvel outside of looking good on the poster.

Well said, although I disagree of coarse. Sorry you've misread me.
I on the other hand suggested Mr. Johnson for Captain Marvel. I am simply on the Mr.Dodgeball, Reno 911, and Mr Deeds bandwagon, since folks don't have the imagination to truely see Mr. Johnson's acting abilities perfectly suited for Captain Marvel. IMHO, Mr. Johnson is exactly what you've stated for the Captain Marvel chap "looking good on the poster" as B.A.

Luckily we don't have to worry ourselves too much over the casting issues, for this Character shall never see the light of day.

 

[Mister J]

Luckily we don't have to worry ourselves too much over the casting issues, for this Character shall never see the light of day.

Unfortunately.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Ok. This is kind of a funny choice since I literally thought of it while reading a post that said he was suggested too much for superhero roles, and because of that I am very hesitant, but I can't help but put it out there to see how people react.

Nathan Fillion for Captain Marvel.

Don't hang me.

 

[Billy Batson]

Capitão Márvel 2 - trailer

Ok. This is kind of a funny choice since I literally thought of it while reading a post that said he was suggested too much for superhero roles, and because of that I am very hesitant, but I can't help but put it out there to see how people react.

Nathan Fillion for Captain Marvel.

Don't hang me.

I have never seen any of his work. I'll have too check out Serenity to see why you like him. He somewhat fits the Jackson Bostwick mode look wise.

 

[TheWatcher]

could you guys chose some other characters,i would love too see you takes

btw-how do you post pics?,straight answer please

 

[Webhead2006]

what the heck was that^

 

[TheWatcher]

not sure?
how can you post pics again?

 

[cerealkiller182]

I have never seen any of his work. I'll have too check out Serenity to see why you like him. He somewhat fits the Jackson Bostwick mode look wise.

In Serenity is just a good all-around leading man charming, funny, confident, and intense. You should YouTube the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along stuff (he plays Captain Hammer I think his name is). That plus his public persona as an overly lovable goofball I think makes me think he could pull of the child's mind/adult's body interpretation of Captain Marvel.

 

[Billy Batson]

In Serenity is just a good all-around leading man charming, funny, confident, and intense. You should YouTube the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along stuff (he plays Captain Hammer I think his name is). That plus his public persona as an overly lovable goofball I think makes me think he could pull of the child's mind/adult's body interpretation of Captain Marvel.

LMAO! Dude look like Jason Bateman.

I totally get where you're going with him as your pick and that's exactly where I was going with The Rock character wise.

I like Nathan Fillion now that you brought him up.
I'll like him even more if he completed the 300 workout for the role.

Now, who would be your choice for Black Adam if Captain Hammer were Captain Marvel?

Please! Do Not say The Rock for he is NO Black Adam.

 

[TheWatcher]

he is black adam!!!!!!!!!!

 

[protocida]

No Fillion.

 

[Webhead2006]

well he was going to be black adam before the project fall apart.

 

[protocida]

Fillion?

 

[cerealkiller182]

Fillion?

The Rock

well he was going to be black adam before the project fall apart.

The Rock is an actor of limited range and would certainly excel at Captain Marvel more than Black Adam.

 

[protocida]

The Rock should be Black Adam.

 

[TheWatcher]

protoida-agreed

 

[Billy Batson]

Pardon me, I didn't mean for my opinion to start a The Rock should be Black Adam flam.

On another note here is a blog from a chum of mine hope you enjoy.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=427829579&blogId=503889930

Captain Marvel fans conned at SDCC 09 as Marvelman poses a great threat
The 2009 San Diego Comic Con has come and gone. Early this year when screenwriter John August was terminated from the SHAZAM movie, he announced on his blog the movie was dead. Executive producer Michael Uslan quickly countered that assumption by saying the project is still alive and he would make a "major announcement" about the film at the SDCC.

Eagerly, us Shazamaholics waited for the Con to hear this announcement. Would it be that they decided to go back to the infamous William Goldman draft of the script, which insiders said was brilliant, and the greatest superhero script ever written, yet was originally rejected for being too dark? Would he announce they got a more appropriate director, like Chris Columbus or Peter Jackson or Tim Burton, and they would begin casting soon?

The Con came, and we waited for reports that Uslan had made his announcement.

And we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And the Con ended, and we knew once again, us Shazamaholics were the ones conned. So as I write this, a week or so after the Con ended, we know little about the status of the SHAZAM movie. It's still being developed by Warner Brothers, it has no script or writer, and it is unknown if director Peter Segal is still with the project.

But all was not a total loss for Captain Marvel. There was some news. It was announced the Marvel Family will appear in the new season of Cartoon Network's BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, and Captain Marvel will get an action figure in the toy line. It was also announced Captain Marvel will appear in the direct to DVD animated movie SUPERMAN/BATMAN: PUBLIC ENEMIES.

On the comic book side of things, Grant Morrison's proposed Earth-5 Captain Marvel project will be done as a one-shot in 2010. Also, Geoff Johns, the man responsible for making every Shazam story arc of the last few years Black Adam centered, with Captain Marvel as a mere supporting player, has been given the greenlight to do a 2010 sequel to the recent JSA arc that ended the Marvel Family's saga on DC's New Earth. It will be Captain Marvel Rebirth, and will return Billy to his rightful place as Captain Marvel.

But the biggest news to come out of the Con was Marvel Comics announcing they now own the rights to Marvelman. For those who may not know who Marvelman is, here is a brief history lesson. In the beginning there was Superman, created by two teenagers named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It was a hit for DC Comics, so rival publisher Fawcett decided to put a new spin on the idea of a super powered hero. Thus was created Captain Marvel. While Siegel and Shuster produced raw and primitive stories bursting at the seams with ideas and energy, Fawcett assigned Captain Marvel's adventures to a couple of science fiction pros in their 30s, Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. The result was Captain Marvel was a much slicker and polished series, with a sense of humor about the whole idea.

The Big Red Cheese was soon outselling the Man Of Steel by a wide margin. So, DC sued Fawcett for copyright infringement. For the defense, Fawcett brought in Popeye the Sailor, a character with powers and abilities close to both Superman and Captain Marvel, who was created a decade earlier. That, combined with the fact DC failed to copyright several weeks of the Superman daily comic strip, awarded Fawcett the win. Ironically author Philip Wylie, who wrote the novel GLADIATOR, a story about a man with superpowers, felt Siegel and Shuster plagiarized his novel in creating Superman, and many of the first years worth of Superman stories are very similar to events in the novel. Before DC sued Fawcett, Wylie planned on suing DC, but could not when he discovered his publisher never copyrighted the novel!!!

Back to the DC-Fawcett lawsuit, DC decided to appeal, a process that dragged on throughout the 1940s. In the early 1950s, the popularity of superheroes was dying out in America. Rather than continue pouring money into a genre that looked to be on its last legs, Fawcett threw in the towel and settled out of court. But Captain Marvel was still a sensation in the U.K., where reprints of his comics were selling just as well as they did in America in his heyday. When Fawcett cancelled the Captain Marvel comics, artist-writer Mick Angelo decided to keep the series going by slightly altering the characters. Captain Marvel became Marvelman. Billy Batson became Mike Moran. Shazam became Kimota. Dr Sivana became Dr Gargunza. And things continued on in England through the 1950s.

Then in the 1980s, Alan Moore revived Marvelman in an epic story that would be the prototype for his WATCHMEN. Those stories were soon republished in America by Eclipse Comics under the title MIRACLEMAN (to avoid any legal problems with Marvel Comics). Now Marvel Comics owns Marvelman. The plan is to have Neil Gaiman (who replaced Moore as writer in the final story arc) finish the story, as it was never completed when Eclipse went under, and Marvel will publish it as a graphic novel, becoming their WATCHMEN, which will stay in print likely forever.

Now, if it stays at that, that's fine. But there are also rumors Marvel Comics may introduce a version of Marvelman into the main Marvel universe with an ongoing title. If that's the case, it could kill DC's Captain Marvel. While DC continuously drops the ball, if Marvel were to introduce 12 year old Mike Moran, who by saying the word "Kimota", transforms into Marvelman, and if they get it right, it's over for Captain Marvel. If Marvel can get a MARVELMAN movie produced, while DC and Uslan continue to fumble on the SHAZAM movie, it's over for Captain Marvel. Or what if, since Marvel Comics has a trademark on the name "Captain Marvel", the main Marvel universe Mike Moran decides to call his super powered alter ego Captain Marvel, and not Marvelman? Marvel Comics could really rub DC's noses in it.

On the other hand, since Marvelman is a blatant copy of Captain Marvel, and since DC owns the rights to Captain Marvel, if Marvel were to do anything with the Marvelman character on a regular basis, I would think DC could sue Marvel Comics for copyright infringement. But would DC do that, or just roll over and play dead, since they never have shown any great love for the Captain Marvel character? I guess we wait and see.


- the CAPTAIN MARVEL Shazamsite!

 

[Webhead2006]

what about marvel's captain marvel/marveel(spelling?) fit into all this too?

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Here's a casting suggestion for Captain Marvel.

Brian Hallisay (6'2) - born 1978

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1878999/

 

[TheComicbookKid]

I don't think yelling KIMOTA has the same ring as SHAZAM!

I wrote that word on a chalkboard at school and British teacher yelled it out in the middle of class laughing. Shazam is a better title to run with away.

 

[Superman]

Here's a casting suggestion for Captain Marvel.

Brian Hallisay (6'2) - born 1978

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1878999/

Not bad. A little young looking IMO but I could live with it.

 

[Kurosawa]

Pardon me, I didn't mean for my opinion to start a The Rock should be Black Adam flam.

On another note here is a blog from a chum of mine hope you enjoy.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=427829579&blogId=503889930

Captain Marvel fans conned at SDCC 09 as Marvelman poses a great threat
The 2009 San Diego Comic Con has come and gone. Early this year when screenwriter John August was terminated from the SHAZAM movie, he announced on his blog the movie was dead. Executive producer Michael Uslan quickly countered that assumption by saying the project is still alive and he would make a "major announcement" about the film at the SDCC.

Eagerly, us Shazamaholics waited for the Con to hear this announcement. Would it be that they decided to go back to the infamous William Goldman draft of the script, which insiders said was brilliant, and the greatest superhero script ever written, yet was originally rejected for being too dark? Would he announce they got a more appropriate director, like Chris Columbus or Peter Jackson or Tim Burton, and they would begin casting soon?

The Con came, and we waited for reports that Uslan had made his announcement.

And we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And the Con ended, and we knew once again, us Shazamaholics were the ones conned. So as I write this, a week or so after the Con ended, we know little about the status of the SHAZAM movie. It's still being developed by Warner Brothers, it has no script or writer, and it is unknown if director Peter Segal is still with the project.

But all was not a total loss for Captain Marvel. There was some news. It was announced the Marvel Family will appear in the new season of Cartoon Network's BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, and Captain Marvel will get an action figure in the toy line. It was also announced Captain Marvel will appear in the direct to DVD animated movie SUPERMAN/BATMAN: PUBLIC ENEMIES.

On the comic book side of things, Grant Morrison's proposed Earth-5 Captain Marvel project will be done as a one-shot in 2010. Also, Geoff Johns, the man responsible for making every Shazam story arc of the last few years Black Adam centered, with Captain Marvel as a mere supporting player, has been given the greenlight to do a 2010 sequel to the recent JSA arc that ended the Marvel Family's saga on DC's New Earth. It will be Captain Marvel Rebirth, and will return Billy to his rightful place as Captain Marvel.

But the biggest news to come out of the Con was Marvel Comics announcing they now own the rights to Marvelman. For those who may not know who Marvelman is, here is a brief history lesson. In the beginning there was Superman, created by two teenagers named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It was a hit for DC Comics, so rival publisher Fawcett decided to put a new spin on the idea of a super powered hero. Thus was created Captain Marvel. While Siegel and Shuster produced raw and primitive stories bursting at the seams with ideas and energy, Fawcett assigned Captain Marvel's adventures to a couple of science fiction pros in their 30s, Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. The result was Captain Marvel was a much slicker and polished series, with a sense of humor about the whole idea.

The Big Red Cheese was soon outselling the Man Of Steel by a wide margin. So, DC sued Fawcett for copyright infringement. For the defense, Fawcett brought in Popeye the Sailor, a character with powers and abilities close to both Superman and Captain Marvel, who was created a decade earlier. That, combined with the fact DC failed to copyright several weeks of the Superman daily comic strip, awarded Fawcett the win. Ironically author Philip Wylie, who wrote the novel GLADIATOR, a story about a man with superpowers, felt Siegel and Shuster plagiarized his novel in creating Superman, and many of the first years worth of Superman stories are very similar to events in the novel. Before DC sued Fawcett, Wylie planned on suing DC, but could not when he discovered his publisher never copyrighted the novel!!!

Back to the DC-Fawcett lawsuit, DC decided to appeal, a process that dragged on throughout the 1940s. In the early 1950s, the popularity of superheroes was dying out in America. Rather than continue pouring money into a genre that looked to be on its last legs, Fawcett threw in the towel and settled out of court. But Captain Marvel was still a sensation in the U.K., where reprints of his comics were selling just as well as they did in America in his heyday. When Fawcett cancelled the Captain Marvel comics, artist-writer Mick Angelo decided to keep the series going by slightly altering the characters. Captain Marvel became Marvelman. Billy Batson became Mike Moran. Shazam became Kimota. Dr Sivana became Dr Gargunza. And things continued on in England through the 1950s.

Then in the 1980s, Alan Moore revived Marvelman in an epic story that would be the prototype for his WATCHMEN. Those stories were soon republished in America by Eclipse Comics under the title MIRACLEMAN (to avoid any legal problems with Marvel Comics). Now Marvel Comics owns Marvelman. The plan is to have Neil Gaiman (who replaced Moore as writer in the final story arc) finish the story, as it was never completed when Eclipse went under, and Marvel will publish it as a graphic novel, becoming their WATCHMEN, which will stay in print likely forever.

Now, if it stays at that, that's fine. But there are also rumors Marvel Comics may introduce a version of Marvelman into the main Marvel universe with an ongoing title. If that's the case, it could kill DC's Captain Marvel. While DC continuously drops the ball, if Marvel were to introduce 12 year old Mike Moran, who by saying the word "Kimota", transforms into Marvelman, and if they get it right, it's over for Captain Marvel. If Marvel can get a MARVELMAN movie produced, while DC and Uslan continue to fumble on the SHAZAM movie, it's over for Captain Marvel. Or what if, since Marvel Comics has a trademark on the name "Captain Marvel", the main Marvel universe Mike Moran decides to call his super powered alter ego Captain Marvel, and not Marvelman? Marvel Comics could really rub DC's noses in it.

On the other hand, since Marvelman is a blatant copy of Captain Marvel, and since DC owns the rights to Captain Marvel, if Marvel were to do anything with the Marvelman character on a regular basis, I would think DC could sue Marvel Comics for copyright infringement. But would DC do that, or just roll over and play dead, since they never have shown any great love for the Captain Marvel character? I guess we wait and see.


- the CAPTAIN MARVEL Shazamsite!

DC and Marvel should cut a deal over Captain Marvel; it's really idiotic that they haven't.

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Not bad. A little young looking IMO but I could live with it.

Well yeah, I went into it with the mindset that any chance of Shazam! is still ages away.

He may even be way too old by then

 

[Webhead2006]

well they do both have separate marvel characters.