Here’s What We Learned On The Set Of DC’s ‘Shazam!’ Movie

The Story of Shazam!

– Shazam! starts out in the 1970s with a young Thaddeus Sivana.

-The present day portion of the movie takes place during the Christmas holidays.

-In present day, Billy Batson is moving from foster home to foster home because he’s convinced that his real family is still out there. He’s very rambunctious while the kids in the group home are trying to treat him like he’s family.

-Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) is a disabled kid who lives in the foster home Billy gets placed in. He’s a superhero aficionado and this will definitely help Billy on his journey 

-Billy Batson quickly becomes friends with Freddy in the movie. While Freddy is being bullied at school, Billy comes to his rescue and has to run from the bullies. That’s what leads him to a train, and there he’s randomly transported to the Rock of Eternity and is granted all the powers of the wizard Shazam.

-Freddy and Billy test out Shazam’s powers and there’s a really cool montage of what goes down. The two kids even prevent a robbery in a convenience store. All of this causes Freddy and Billy to bond.

-Meanwhile, Doctor Sivana is taking his new-found powers for a revenge-filled test drive involving the Seven Deadly Sins.

-Sivana’s revenge leads him to wanting what was denied to him all those years ago and he devises a plan to get the Wizard’s champion.

-Shazam ends up getting a few fans and he’s using his powers to do superhero things. That’s when  Doctor Sivana finds him and they come to blows. 

-The film is very much so the superhero rendition of 1988’s Big. The story follows this teenager who can turn into an adult with the powers of gods thanks to an ancient wizard. The stuff I saw in the Rock of Eternity set and in the sizzle reel make me believe this is going to be a fun time at the movies much like Big was. There’s even a fun Easter egg to the giant floor piano from Big.