Shazam Delayed, Not Dead

February 26th, 2008 | by admin |

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Director Peter Segal told SCI FI Wire that the recently settled writers’ strike delayed his proposed Shazam! movie, but that it’s still in active development.

“I think it’ll still happen,” Segal (Get Smart) said in a group interview at WonderCon in San Francisco over the weekend. “Though timing is going to be a key issue now, because, whereas before, normally we’d be working on a script while we’re in post-production [on Get Smart], so that hopefully when we’re done with post-production, we’re ready to go into preproduction [on the next project]. But now we’re sort of out of sync, so, unfortunately, I’ll have to spend more time with my family.” (That last comment was a joke.)

But Segal said he didn’t want to rush the script for the movie, based on the venerable DC Comics Captain Marvel franchise. Segal also confirmed that the movie’s tentative title is now Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam.

“You don’t really want to rush something like Shazam,” Segal said. “I mean, it’s going to be a huge movie. I mean, huge in scope and in price. And so you want to make sure you have a solid script and really pay attention to the casting and all the preproduction that goes into that. So, you know, I think when it’s right, it’ll be made.”

Segal’s upcoming Get Smart, based on the hit 1960s satirical spy series, opens June 20.

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