Shazam director David F. Sandberg is having a foul week.
Sandberg, who helmed the 2019 Shazam origin story and this yr’s sequel, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, is coping with the fallout over the discharge of the latter.
Shazam: Fury of the Gods has been a field workplace and significant disappointment, taking in solely $US65 million worldwide in its first weekend, whereas slugged with a 53 per cent Rotten Tomatoes rating.
That is considerably worse than the 2019 Shazam film which opened to $US158 million globally and boasted a 90 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In Australia, the sequel clocked a $2.32 million opening weekend, in comparison with $4.46 million for the 2019 predecessor.
No surprise Sandberg declared he’s “definitely done for now” with superhero motion pictures.
The Swedish filmmaker tweeted right this moment, “On Rotten Tomatoes, I just got my lowest critic score and my highest audience on the same film. I wasn’t expecting a repeat of the first movie critically but I was still a little surprised because I think it’s a good film. Oh well.
“As I’ve been saying for a while now, I’m very eager to go back to horror (as well as trying some new things). After six years of Shazam, I’m definitely done with superheroes for now.
“Just to be clear, I don’t regret even for a second making the Shazam movies. I’ve learned so much and gotten to work with some truly amazing people. Will forever be grateful that I got to direct two of these! They’ve been very challenging but valuable experiences.
“One thing I’ve really been looking forward to is disconnecting from the superhero discourse online. A lot of that stresses me out so much and it will be nice not to having to think about that anymore.”
Sandberg’s honesty, particularly his final tweet, then hit a nerve in some quarters as a result of three hours later, he returned to Twitter with a screenshot of a Reddit thread which interpreted his feedback in a really completely different means.
The screenshot of a dialogue publish on the “DC_Cinematic” subreddit was titled “David F. Sandberg blames fans on the failure of Shazam”. Sandberg took umbrage on the mischaracterisation of his unique feedback.
Sandberg’s caption, “So that tweet gets turned into this Reddit post and before you know it, you risk it becoming accepted truth online and you’ll never hear the end of it. Exhausting,” references the typically poisonous nature of on-line fandoms, which could be significantly intense in superhero genres and comedian e book tradition.
He added, “And I have it pretty easy. The most disheartening thing was seeing the comments on Leslie Grace’s Instagram going ‘Haha, your movie got cancelled!’, ‘You’re not my Batgirl’ etc. And this isn’t limited to superhero fandom. It’s just sad.”
Shazam: Fury of the Gods is centred on the story of Billy Batson, a youngster who’s imbued with superpowers, possessing tremendous energy and velocity amongst others. He additionally morphs into an grownup model of himself when he’s in “Shazam form”.
The movie stars Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody and Jack Dylan Grazer.
It’s a part of the pantheon of the DC Extended Universe, but it surely’s one of many 4 remaining movies of that iteration of DC Comics’ display output. The studio in November employed filmmaker James Gunn and his producing associate Peter Safran to overtake and relaunch a extra centered artistic imaginative and prescient.
Since the start of the DCEU with the 2013 film Man of Steel, the titles have lacked cohesion from one to the following. While the DCEU has had hits equivalent to Wonder Woman, its inconsistency has translated into many misses as properly, together with Justice League.
Shazam’s future in Gunn’s imaginative and prescient of DC motion pictures is unsure, which can have stored some audiences away in the event that they’re undecided if these variations of the characters might be retired anyway.
Before his work on Shazam, Sandberg was finest identified for his horror movies Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation.
Source: www.news.com.au
