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Shazam! director explains how the logo came about

March 22, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Earlier this week we got our first look at the official logo for Shazam!, Warner Bros. and director David F. Sandberg’s upcoming DC Extended Universe release, and Sandberg has taken to Twitter to reveal that the logo is actually based on one that he designed for his pitch to Warner and DC Films.

SEE ALSO: Shazam set photos and video offer best look yet at Zachary Levi’s costume

Months ago I made a logo myself in Blender to use for presentations and stuff. They wound up basing the official logo on that. I guess my presentation made quite an impression 🙂 I had no idea my twitter banner would end up a spoiler. https://t.co/BcmABkrgxx

— David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) March 20, 2018

Aside from the logo, we’re yet to get any official promotional material from Shazam!, but with several set photos of Zachary Levi doing the rounds on social media, we’ll presumably get to see something soon…

“We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Asher Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).”

Shazam will see Zachary Levi starring as the titular superhero, with Asher Angel as his young alter-ego Billy Batson, Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman, Ian Chen as Eugene Choi, Jovan Armand as Pedro Peña, Grace Fulton as Mary Marvel, Cooper Andrews as Victor Vasquez, Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley, Mark Strong as Dr. Thaddeus Sivana and Ron Cephas Jones as the Wizard. The film is set for release on April 5th 2019.

 

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: DC, DC Extended Universe, Shazam

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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