Director David F Sandberg and co-star Rachel Ziegler have been posted concerning the response to Shazam! Fury Of The Gods…
It’s not been the perfect of weeks on this planet of superhero collection Shazam. Following the success of the primary film, director David F Sandberg returned for Shazam: Fury Of The Gods. Zachary Levi is again within the title position, with Rachel Ziegler one of many new additions to the ensemble.
Thing is, it didn’t fairly go to plan this time round. Whilst the movie didn’t precisely take a vital drubbing, it nonetheless didn’t get the nice and cozy reception of the unique. And then, over the weekend, the field workplace drop off from the primary film was fairly brutal too. A $30m US opening weekend may not look too dangerous on paper, however when the unique did over $50m on its solution to $366m worldwide, the runes aren’t trying good.
The movie nonetheless has a good quantity of followers although, and two of the inventive forces concerned have popped onto social media to reply to a few of the criticism.
Sandberg for one, who’s famous the disparity between the viewers and important response to the film. A good, measured Tweet, this one…
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>On Rotten Tomatoes I simply acquired my lowest critic rating and my highest viewers rating on the identical movie 🤷♂️ I wasn’t anticipating a repeat of the primary film critically however I used to be nonetheless a bit of shocked as a result of I feel it’s a superb movie. Oh properly.
— David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) March 20, 2023
He adopted it up by confirming he’s heading again to horror motion pictures subsequent, and saying “One factor I’ve actually been trying ahead to is disconnecting from the superhero discourse on-line. A number of that stresses me out a lot and it is going to be good not having to consider that anymore”. Hard to argue with the person on that one.
Rachel Ziegler too has posted in assist of the movie, and in her phrases…
some individuals on the market and simply being… senselessly imply. and it’s pointless. and i do know, i do know, “if you happen to can’t deal with the warmth…” and all that nonsense, and also you’re proper. however our movie is definitely excellent. it’s simply cool to hate on enjoyable these days. that’s okay. we’re good. ❤️
— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) March 19, 2023
I like these responses. Defending their movie, with out punching anybody else down too. Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is in cinemas now.
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