Zachary Levi’s original Shazam! The movie saw a 14-year-old boy named Billy Baston with the ability to become an adult superhero. Fans will remember the test of powers montage that had Freddie Mercury’s Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now playing over the top. However, after the release of the DC movie in 2019, Shazam! director David F. Sandberg revealed that he wanted an Elvis Presley Easter Egg due to the King’s love of the original comics.
A fan asked Sandberg on Twitter at the time: “How much creative control do you and other directors individually have over the storytelling in your film? I guess there are almost like showrunners for these megaseries, right?
The director said that he could only speak for Shazam, but admitted that he had a lot of creative control. He said: “I think the biggest disagreement on Shazam was the choice of some songs.”
Sandberg continued: “I wanted Elvis for the power test montage, the studio wanted Queen. But Elvis or Queen is kind of a win either way. The reason he wanted Elvis was because he was a huge fan of Captain Marvel Jr. [aka Shazam Jr] and based her stage outfit on it. But I have to admit that Queen works very well in that scene.”
Just as Elvis was a fan of Captain Marvel Jr, the character became a fan of Elvis in the comics. As for what song the director had in mind for Shazam! montage, he said, A Little Less Conversation, which ended in the 2023 sequel.
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The 2001 JXL Remix of Elvis’s A Little Less Conversation plays over the end credits of Shazam 2 in tribute to the King. Fans may also remember that Captain Marvel Jr is mentioned several times in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic, which was also produced by Warner Bros.
The superhero’s true identity is Freddy Freeman, Shazam’s adoptive brother, played by Jack Dylan Grazer as a teenager and by Adam Brody as a superhero.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is out now.
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