‘Shazam 2’ Star Zachary Levi Tells Fans To Stop Supporting Garbage Movies
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Actor Zachary Levi, the star of Shazam: Fury of the Gods, told fans at Fan Expo Chicago, “We have to actively not choose the garbage” that Hollywood puts out.
“I personally feel like the amount of content that comes out of Hollywood that is garbage — they don’t care enough to actually make it great for you guys. They don’t,” Levi said to enthusiastic applause.
“How many times do you watch a trailer and go, ‘Oh my God, this looks so cool!’ Then you go to the movie and it’s like, ‘This was what I get?'” Levi continued. “They know that once you’ve already bought the ticket and you’re in the seat, they’ve got your money. And the only way for us to change any of it is to not go to the garbage. We have to actively not choose the garbage. It’ll help. It’ll help a lot.”
It certainly helped put a nail in the coffin of this phase of the DCEU (see also: Black Adam). Speculating on the future of the Shazam! franchise (spoiler: not looking great), Levi bemoaned the critical reception to the sequel to the 2019 hit.
“The audience score is still quite good, but the critics’ score was, I don’t know, very oddly and perplexingly low, and people were insanely unkind,” he said last month, after previously blaming the movie’s marketing. “Listen, I’ve been a part of things and as much as I wish that they were good, I know that they’re okay, I know they missed a lot. I’m not saying Shazam! Fury of the Gods is some perfect Orson Welles masterpiece, but it’s a good darn movie.”
Audiences did think it was good and darn with an 86 percent rating, compared to a critical rating of 49 percent. Still, word of mouth wasn’t enough to propel Levi and co. to the box office stratosphere, with Fury of the Gods stalling out at $57.6 million domestically.
