I am more interested to see how Shazam! does than this movie...
Shazam, if handled right, could catch far more fire than anyone expects.... It doesn’t have the MCU push around it to prop it up, but the character is a teenage boy who winds up with super powers....
It will be interesting to see if the teenage and younger demographic shows up for it. If it catches, it will catch bigger than anyone predicts, because, what kid doesn’t fantasize about this?
Its a lesser character in the DC universe, and DC is notoriously bad at taking its characters from comic books to film... But if there was a movie that I would think may surprise at the box office, Shazam would be the one I would think would be more likely to surprise.
No it will never pull in the numbers of the Captain Marvel, as its not part of some decade long intertwined storyline.. but if it catches, I suspect it is fare more likely to exceed expectations that Captain Marvel will.
Honestly I expect Captain Marvel to do fine, but underperform expectations.
The original Superman movie was a success. Christopher Reeve played a wholesome, upbeat hero that believed in Truth, Justice and the American way.
People loved that. They loved a hero that made them feel good. The Superman reboots attempted to capture the darkness that was the successful Batman reboot staring Michael Keaton.
Problem was, the public didn't like a dark, brooding narcissistic, fatalistic Superman who thought about suicide. Nobody wants other people's drama. The old adage, "Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone", applies here.
The DC people seem to be stuck on "dark", and cannot seem to think "Happy" or "Light".
I think you may be right about Shazam, because I expect Shazam to be happy and light, rather than dark and brooding. Maybe they will get this one right.