This is probably old news to most of you, but it looks like The Rock is in talks to play Captain Marvel in
the movie SHAZAM!
If you ask me, the casting couldn’t be better. The only other two actors that I’d want to see play this part, would be Patrick Warburton, who looks the part, and Jerry O’Connell, who actually did the voice work for the character on Justice League Unlimited a couple years ago.
I was never a big fan of the old Captain Marvel cartoon series as a kid, and I really didn’t see the character as anything more than a Superman rip off, until he joined the JSA back in 2000/2001. It was a good place for an underrated character.
In recent years, the character has gotten a lot more exposure. They’ve pretty much given Billy Baston(Captain Marvel), a promotion to SHAZAM keeper of the Rock of Eternity. This means that his sidekick Captain Marvel JR, has been upgraded to just Captain Marvel, and Billy’s sister Mary, is one of the main characters in the weekly series Countdown, has taken on the powers of Black Adam, which seem to cause insanity…among other things.
It would seem DC is really trying to push the entire Marvel Family into the spotlight.
I wonder how Marvel Comics feels about this….
