'Shazam!': Release date, plot, cast, trailer, news and everything you need to know about DC's latest superhero film

'Shazam!' starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel is slated to release in the US on April 5 and is the seventh instalment in the DC Extended Universe

'Shazam!' the upcoming superhero movie based on DC comics of the same name is the seventh instalment in the DC Extended Universe. The film has been in talks since 2000 and Dwayne Johnson was expected to star in the film as either Black Adam or Shazam.

However, the film went through multiple changes in terms of cast and crew and finally, in 2017, director David F Sandberg was brought aboard the project followed by Zachary Levi and Asher Angel. The film's principal photography began on January 29, 2018. Dwayne Johnson was signed to play the role of Black Adam in a stand-alone film. 

Release date 

'Shazam!' is slated to release on April 5 in the US. It will release a little earlier on April 3 in France, Italy and Sweden, and on April 4 in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore. Fans in Japan, however, will get to watch the film only on April 19. 

Plot

The movie is set two years after an invasion by Steppenwolf, a DC supervillain, and centres around a 14-year-old orphan Billy Batson. Billy moves into his seventh foster home run by the Vasquez family where he meets his best friend. While travelling on the subway one day, Billy is strangely transported to a different realm where an old wizard gives him the power to transform into an adult superhero. All he needs to do is say "Shazam!". Billy, along with his new best friend Freddy Freeman, begin to explore the limits of his newly acquired power.

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