'Shazam!: Fury of the Gods' Director David F. Sandberg on That Epic DC Cameo (Exclusive)
etonline.comAfter that Superman fake-out in the first movie, director David F. Sandberg knew that if he was going to pull off another DC cameo in the sequel, it would have to be for real this time.And he pulled it off!
Just as all hope seemed lost in the final act, Wonder Woman aka Diana Prince (Gal Gadot), appeared to save Shazam (Zachary Levi) and leave her favorite fanboy swooning.«We wanted to poke fun at the first movie where we had to obscure Superman’s face,» Sandberg told ET's Ash Crossan ahead of the film's release. «On this one, I actually didn't believe it was going to happen, because she was in the script from day one but… Gal couldn't be there [for some of the filming] so we had to do it with a stand in.
I was like, 'This is going to be the exact same thing as in the first one where you never see the head!'»«But then we were actually able to shoot with Gal and I mean, that enables us to have fun with it,» he added, «because if she hadn't and we had teased all of these things — people would've been so mad.» It's a fun moment, but does it mean anything for the future of the DCEU — particularly now that James Gunn and Peter Safran have taken the helm at DC Studios and started shaking up some of the franchises?«What [Gunn and Safran] have said is that what we've done in these two movies doesn't contradict anything they're doing with their new plans,» Sandberg shared. «You could do more movies if you wanted to.
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