Official trailer for
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
.
The DC panel at San Diego Comic-Con
highlighted
the first official trailer for
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
, the sequel to 2019's
Shazam!
, both starring Zachary Levi. As a bonus, Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) wowed the crowd by making a grand entrance in full costume to introduce exclusive
new teaser footage
from his (related) upcoming film
Black Adam.
The 2019
Shazam!
introduced a teen foster kid named Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who has landed in a group home after running away from another one to hunt for his birth mother. He saves his new foster brother, Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer), from bullies, and when they chase him into the subway, he's transported to the Rock of Eternity. There, the ancient wizard Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) chooses Billy to be his new champion. When Billy says "Shazam!" he transforms into an adult superhero (Levi); repeating the word returns him to his Billy form. Billy/Shazam defeats a supervillain and shares his power with all his foster siblings, making his own family of superheroes.
The film grossed $366 worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. In his
2019 review
of
Shazam!
, Ars Tech Culture Editor Sam Machkovech concluded, "It's fun. It's funny. It's fine," despite a few nitpicky flaws. "The end result is a superhero film that leans brazenly into an Indiana Jones vibe (complete with a John Williams-caliber score) along with a healthy dollop of
Deadpool
-for-kids gags about the wider DC Comics universe."