How DID they get away with just lifting like 89% of this comic's plot directly into the movie. Gotta say...

How DID they get away with just lifting like 89% of this comic's plot directly into the movie. Gotta say, this timeline ain't that bad fellas.

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I like Curse but I think the movie improved upon the story

The comic was pretty much Johns writing a script for WB to adapt.

Because John's was involved. It's probably the second most accurate adaptation after Watchmen

>Johns is the only DC person involved in the movies
>somehow his work is being adapted
It is truly baffling

Right, I saw the credits too, but he must've had enough clout to convince the suits to allow most of the content to remain unchanged right?

They got away with it because WB owns the rights to the original Johns story. So the movie writer/director/producers that decided what they wanted the story to be could use any of it they wanted. It they have to do is give a check to Johns and proper credit and they can do anything they want.

I thought Curse was a pretty lame revamp but a decent Earth-One sort of thing, so I'm glad the movie took everything it did wrong and smoothed out the flaws.

Still not sure how to feel about Johns trying to pull a Bendis and get his stories adapted, though I AM liking the new ongoing a lot. Hopefully Billy doesn't get his comic cancelled ever again, I waited almost a decade for a new series.

Didn't WB make Johns the Kevin Fiege of the DCEU? I remember there being articles about it.

Temporarily. It seems like he was used as a bit of a scapegoat for JL. Which makes no fucking sense given that he was brought onto the project after they'd started principal and considering every DCEU project that he's actually been properly involved in has been a success (Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam)

>How did that garbage defiling racoon manage to shove his own shit onto the big screen since getting a bigger role in their live action division
It's a mystery.

I'm not that much of a DC fan but it's legitimately so sad that what happened to Justice League happened. The cast were perfect together and it seemed like all of Zack Snyder's plans were gonna finally pay off. I loved Shazam so much but it felt bittersweet, we're never gonna have all these people get together.

>The cast were perfect together and it seemed like all of Zack Snyder's plans were gonna finally pay off
Oh noez, what a loss

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Well, Snyder's plan wasn't a good one in the first place, so the JL movie was dead on arrival. I hope we'll see another JL movie somewhere down the line, but it's gonna take time. Somebody speculated that DCEU works in "clusters" now. They are setting up a bunch of vaguely connected "universes" (Shazam-verse, Aquaman-verse, WW-verse in future Bat-verse with Batfamily as a focal point) and after that they might try again with JL. I am just sad for the actors - Cavill and Affleck were good picks, they just got wasted on a bad script and direction.
The casting was not really a problem for DCEU. The only two slip-ups were Lex Luthor and the Joker. I am surprised WB didn't realize how much of an attention-seeking primadonna Jared Leto is.

Could have been even 100% and it wouldn't matter since no one saw this movie.

Because New 52 comics were specifically designed to be movie adaptable and borderline movie pitches.

>Because New 52 comics were specifically designed to be movie adaptable and borderline movie pitches.
How many years has it been and people still don't get this? Let Johns dream. The movie was alright, I was just slightly peeved that the lightning never looked as cool as in the OP

The comic was a movie pitch, it was designed by a committee, johns just had to turn it into a comic. Johns was cco, consultant, and a wb executive he shilled his own work over anyone else

I think the best part is that there was some autistic executive at WB hellbent on making the movie like Big. Even the director said they offered him the movie with that pitch and one executive was mentioning that they were trying to do that for years. The pitch wasn't from the director.

That explains the scene in the mall, and the fact that it started at a carnival.

No budget

Shazam! basically is Big, and since Big was a massively successful movie, it makes sense to mimic it.