Captain Marvel
Fictional Character
Warner Bros. Hires A Sixth Writer For SHAZAM!!<br>...according to The Hollywood Reporter. Birch is at least the sixth writer assigned to put the classic Fawcett Comics superhero Captain Marvel on the big screen, following Goldman, Bryan Goluboff ("The Basketball Diaries"), Joel Cohen &... In this article: Captain Marvel, Shazam, Ain't It Cool News, William Goldman, Warner Bros., The Longest Yard, Warner Bros, Trademark, and Marvel |
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SCI FI Wire | November 20, 2008
Segal To Helm Captain Marvel
...Warner Brothers, Segal and his Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing, Variety reported. Warner acquired the John August-scripted Captain Marvel. Segal and Ewing began working on the film two years ago at New Line, but the property has...
In this article: Peter Segal, RSS, Sci Fi Wire, Get Smart, All rights reserved, and Shazam
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Wired: Underwire | June 03, 2008
Captain Marvel to 'Shazam' His Way Into Theaters The Underwire from Wired.com
...toward comedy. There are continued rumors that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is attached to play Captain Marvel's nemesis, Black Adam, but there's something about that idea that already has Al Sharpton's phone ringing. Oh dear God, no....
In this article: Shazam, Superman, Hercules, God, Atlas, and Achilles
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Shazam Based On Original Comic
...working on the script in the wake of the writers' strike and that the film will go back to the original DC Comics for its version of Captain Marvel's origin story. "There've been several incarnations [of the origin story]," Segal said in...
In this article: Peter Segal, Shazam, Sci Fi Wire, Patrick Warburton, Get Smart, RSS, Dwayne Johnson, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Cinematical | November 21, 2008
Captain Marvel and Warner Bros Say Shazam!
...Brothers, Fandom, Family Films, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek The Captain Marvel film seems to finally be moving forward again, if this Variety item is anything to go by. Get Smart's Peter Segal has set a first-look deal at Warner Bros.,...
In this article: Warner Bros, Marvel, Superman, Black Adam, Patrick Warburton, Warner Bros, Shazam!, and Filed
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Rotten Tomatoes: News | September 24, 2007
ROTTEN TOMATOES: The Rock Up For Two Roles in Shazam!
...prefer Fred MacMurray in the role. Captain Marvel is still headed to the big screen -- and when he gets there, he may have an artfully raised eyebrow to go with that lightning bolt on his chest. We reported back in May that Dwayne "The...
In this article: Shazam!, Shazam, Marvel, Black Adam, Fred MacMurray, Rotten Tomatoes, DVD, and DC Comics
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Rotten Tomatoes: News | January 15, 2009
Producer Uslan Keeps Hope Alive for Shazam!
...move to the big screen? After the on-again, off-again project seemed to fall back into limbo last week when screenwriter John August said the Captain Marvel/Shazam film "won't be happening," the film's producer Michael Uslan told MTV News that...
In this article: Michael Uslan, John August, Shazam!, Black Adam, Hercules, Shazam, and Solomon
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Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940). With a premise that taps adolescent fantasy, Captain Marvel is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a youth who works as a radio news reporter and was chosen to be a champion of good by the wizard Shazam. Whenever Billy speaks the wizard's name, he is instantly struck by a magic lightning bolt that transforms him into an adult superhero empowered with the abilities of six mythical figures. Several friends and family members, most notably Marvel Family cohorts Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr., can share Billy's power and become "Marvels" themselves.
Hailed as "The World's Mightiest Mortal" in his adventures, Captain Marvel was nicknamed "The Big Red Cheese" by arch-villain Doctor Sivana, an epithet later adopted by Captain Marvel's fans. Based on sales, Captain Marvel was the most popular superhero of the 1940s, as his Captain Marvel Adventures comic book series sold more copies than Superman and other competing superhero books during the mid-1940s. Captain Marvel was also the first comic book superhero to be adapted to film, in a 1941 Republic Pictures serial (The Adventures of Captain Marvel).
- Name:
- Captain Marvel
- Also Known As:
- Captain Thunder, Marvel, Shazam
- Powers:
- Magically bestowed aspects of various mythological figures which include: vast super-strength, speed and stamina, physical and magical invulnerability, flight, fearlessness, vast wisdom and enhanced mental perception, control over and emission of magic lightning and vast untapped magical powers.
- First appearance:
- Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940)
- Created By:
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