Warner Bros. held a relatively quiet San Diego Comic-Con panel for their upcoming DC film releases, only releasing the first trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and new footage from Black Adam.
The trailer for the sequel to 2019’s Shazam!, once again directed by David F. Sandberg, and starring Zachary Levi as Billy Batson (Asher Angel)’s alter-ego, sees our young hero and his foster siblings face off against the daughters of Atlas, Hespera (Helen Mirren) and Kalypso (Lucy Liu), who are both angry that the wizard Shazam gave the power of the gods to children. Rachel Zegler (Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story) is also introduced as another, thus far unidentified Greek goddess, who apparently befriends Billy’s foster brother Freddy Freeman in civilian mode.
Djimon Hounsou returns as the Wizard, despite his character’s apparent demise in the first film, as do Jack Dylan Grazer & Adam Brody as Freddy; Grace Fulton, now playing both versions of Mary Bromfield; Faithe Herman & Meagan Good as Darla Dudley; Ian Chen & Ross Butler as Eugene Choi; Jovan Armand & D.J. Cotrona as Pedro Peña; and Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews as Billy’s foster parents Rosa and Victor Vasquez.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods will be released on December 21, 2022, two months after Black Adam, which received another minute-long trailer. A clip shown to Comic-Con attendees also revealed Viola Davis will reprise her role as Amanda Waller in the movie, which bows October 21.
While footage from next year’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and The Flash were conspicuously absent, the heroes of both films do appear during Shazam’s narration of his own trailer, alongside Ben Affleck’s Batman, who will return in the latter movie. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is currently set to follow Fury of the Gods on March 17, while The Flash will release on June 23, 2023.
