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  1. fun, about Shazam!: The character was originally called Captain Marvel and became Shazam when folded into DC, since Marvel had its own.
    “he was actually originally called Captain Marvel”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:02:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films.
    “I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Aquaman. Fennessey says Shazam! is lighter but not as operatically goofy as Aquaman.
    “it's not quite as operatically goofy as Aquaman was”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:03:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Amblin. Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies.
    “something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie.
    “the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Spider-Man (Peter Parker films, as a generic comparison). Miles says most superhero movies turn derivative at the power-discovery stage, as with Peter Parker scaling skyscrapers, but Shazam! felt genuine there.
    “like Peter Parker like scaling skyscrapers type of thing”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:05:03 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Shazam!: Miles on what a real 14-year-old with powers would do: buy beer, hit a strip club, and rave about the wings because it's PG-13.
    “would go to script strip club and like beam about the chicken wings because this is a PG 13 movie”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:05:23 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Shazam! → Wonder Woman. Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain.
    “That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): Justice League → Shazam!. DC pivoted to standalone films after Justice League underperformed against expectations.
    “they did a pretty quick pivot from, like, fast tracking their Justice League movie”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:06:43 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. programming (programming): Shazam! → Black Adam (planned). Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie.
    “it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Joker. Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!.
    “Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (verdict): Shazam! → Wonder Woman. Miles was less of a fan of Wonder Woman than others were.
    “I personally wasn't as big of a fan as as Wonder Woman, as other people were”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  13. industry (industry): Avengers: Endgame → Shazam!. Miles has Marvel fatigue from years of buildup to Endgame and prefers DC's standalone approach.
    “it feels like we've been preparing for endgame, like, just forever”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:09:17 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers.
    “it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): Annabelle: Creation → Shazam!. Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before.
    “costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  16. career (career): Jennifer Spence → Shazam!. Sandberg says production designer Spence stepped up alongside his returning crew on Shazam!.
    “or production design, Jennifer Spence, and like it felt like we all got to step up together.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (what-if): Shazam! → Black Adam (planned). The earlier Shazam script was Shazam versus Black Adam; it was judged too much for one movie, so Black Adam was cut.
    “we have this script that's basically Shazam versus Black Adam, which is a long time nemesis”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:24:29 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  18. craft (craft): Shazam! → Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films.
    “this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Shazam! → War of the Worlds. Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire.
    “the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): David F. Sandberg → Shazam!. Sandberg shot himself with action figures to show the previs team the action he wanted.
    “on this movie, I just shoot myself playing with action figures.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Shazam!: Sandberg previsualized scenes by filming himself with action figures and handing it to the CG team.
    “I just shoot myself playing with action figures.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Shazam!: Why communication is hard: even a gray line on a graphic gets returned wrong several times.
    “yeah, I want a gray line down here.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:28:02 · David F. Sandberg (0.90 sure it was them)
  23. theme (theme): Annabelle: Creation → Shazam!. Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story.
    “even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Shazam!: Casting rule: to be Shazam you must audition, since no one had seen these adult actors play a child.
    “we had this rule that if you want to be Shazam, you have to come in and audition”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:31:59 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  25. people (people): Annabelle: Creation → Shazam!. Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, was an easy cast because Sandberg had worked with her on Annabelle: Creation.
    “Grace Fulton, who plays Mary, because I worked with her on, um, uh, Annabelle Creation”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:32:27 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Shazam!: Sandberg on big VFX films: spectacle on screen is tedious to shoot.
    “the more spectacular it looks on screen, the more boring it probably was to shoot”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:35:09 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)