Shazam not in the DCCU

Hey guys,

DC has done it again. It's the same story over and over again. It seems like they do not understand from their mistakes or that they simply don't care about what we want. Entertainement weekly revealed yesterday that the Shazam project will not be produced by Warner Brothers but by a subsidiary company named new line cinema. This, per se, has no impact on the DC Cinematic Universe but New Line President said when asked about the project:

 "It feels to me like Shazam will have a tone unto itself. It's a DC comic, but it's not a Justice League character, and it's not a Marvel Comic. The tone and feeling of the movie will be different from the other range of comic book movies. It will have a sense of fun and a sense of humor. But the stakes have to be real". 

So there you have it, DC fans have been slapped in the face once again. After the excitement of last day's announcement when we found out that the Rock is indeed Shazam's nemesis Black Adam speculation ran wild on who will possibly be cast as Billy Batson and as Shazam. However this news cuts our enthusiasm because part of what made Shazam special was his relationship with other superheroes. The Rock even teased us by saying that his character can kick Superman's ass and we all pictured how awesome it would have been to see a live action movie featuring a fight between Shazam and Superman. Apparently WB has no intention of having a shared universe, for a while now we have been talking of the DC Cinematic Universe but which Universe are we really talking about? We've had so far only one movie which is Man of Steel, the sequel to Man of Steel is Batman v Superman but this can hardly be considered a shared universe since Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg will all be introduced in this movie and as far as we know more characters will be introduced in the Justice League movie. A shared universe entails that in two separate movies there are references to each other and both movie acknowledge the existence of the other. For Instance, no Avengers popped up in Guardians but we saw some characters in the movie which had already appeared in Thor, etc hence the shared universe. Here there is no such thing, every film or tv show is confined to its corner. We had The Dark Knight trilogy, Arrow and Flash, Constantine, Gotham, The Green Lantern Movie, Smallville, Superman Returns and now Shazam and Man of Steel which are all separate universes. All of this to me is truly disappointing.

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