Shazam! Fury of the Gods has been met with a string of bad fortune from poor box office returns to a rotten reception from critics. Following its recent release on digital, a fan has been quick to kick the film while its down by noticing an impossible continuity error.
The Shazam! Fury of the Gods error was spotted during a shot where the camera looks to the wall of dozens of newspapers. On one of the newspapers is an article speculating about a romance between the titular Shazam and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. The point of concern was one of the pictures in an article, which a fan was quick to point out was impossible to exist:
For those unaware, the lower picture in the frame is a screencap from the first Wonder Woman film, showing Diana Prince rising from the trenches to plow through No Man’s Land. Ignoring the possibility of someone being able to take a clear photo in the middle of a warzone, the film took place in 1917, making it impossible for a photograph to exist with that high of quality.
Using promotional photos or screenshots from prior films isn’t a tactic exclusive to Shazam! Fury of the Gods. It’s a common practice across the film industry to save time and money instead of setting up an entire new scene to photograph for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene. What comes off as so jarring in this example is that Diana has appeared in multiple movies in the modern day, including Wonder Woman 1984. The photo could have just as easily come from one of those films and avoided this controversy. Sometimes though, mistakes just happen. It’s up to fans to decide if this mistake is big enoug to distract from the rest of the film.
The talent behind the Shazam! sequel
David F. Sandberg directed Shazam! Fury of the Gods from a script written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The film stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good, D.J. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Marta Millans, Cooper Andrews, Djimon Hounsou, Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren.
The official Shazam! Fury of the Gods synopsis reads as follows: “Bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter-egos. But when the Daughters of Atlas, a vengeful trio of ancient gods, arrive on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago, Billy—aka Shazam—and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of their world.”
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