Peter Segal

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 moved over to Warner. The movie tells the story of teenage Billy Batson, who...

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...for its version of Captain Marvel's origin story. "There've been several incarnations [of the origin story]," Segal said in an interview while promoting his upcoming Get Smart film. "And there's a new incarnation about how Billy has to...

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...2009 Believe it or not, but I've been following the development of John August's Shazam! since Comic-Con 2007, when attached director Peter Segal and I chatted briefly about it during an interview for Get Smart, a film that was not even done...

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...August's take but for now we will have to wait and see what Birch and Johns can do. Billy Birch has written Peter Segal's next film "One Finger Salute" while Johns past writing credits include "Blade: The Series" as well as a couple of...

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...Carell and Hathaway would love to come back for further films. SHAZAM, the next from Segal, is delayed because of the writer's strike, but John August is working on it now. He joked about casting Carell as Captain Marvel and then said they...

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...Segal this past weekend in Beverly Hills, he spoke briefly about writer John August. Segal says August, who is writing BILLY BATSON AND THE LEGEND OF SHAZAM for Segal over at WB, is jumping back and forth between Tim Burton's DARK SHADOWS...

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...not even remotely dark) way. I personally can't see Peter directing something that doesn't have any comedy in it, so I expect that we'll hear that someone else is directing it if a movie ever gets off the ground. (I'm sure the reaction to the...

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