Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu bring a bit of divine retribution.
Shazam (Zachary Levi), with his new superfriends.
2019’S SHAZAM! WAS a cheery, family-friendly movie with a classic wish-fulfilment hook: what if a lonely kid could become a superhero with a single word? Despite critical and commercial success, though, director David F. Sandberg had a nagging feeling about it; he’d run out of time to tweak some things, and had more ideas he wanted to try. So, returning for the sequel, he decided to create gods and monsters unlike any the DC Universe has seen — because they don’t come from the comics at all.
“We landed there because Shazam’s powers come from Greek gods,” explains Sandberg of the new villains. “So what if those powers were stolen from the gods and now they want revenge?” He and his team created the three Daughters of Atlas, bringing the titular fury at the theft of their birthright. Zachary Levi’s Shazam, aka foster kid Billy Batson (Asher Angel), and his newfound foster family will face off against a formidable clan of goddesses.