The upcoming crop of DC movies got some major updates on Wednesday, when Warner Bros. announced shifting release dates for a slew of its upcoming movies. This included delaying the theatrical release dates of Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom — and moving the release of Shazam! Fury of the Gods up six months earlier. The blockbuster will now be opening on December 16, 2022 as opposed to June 2, 2023, and director David F. Sandberg took to social media to acknowledge the new date in a pretty delightful way. In a series of tweets, which you can check out below, Sandberg confirmed the earlier date, joked that its competing date against Avatar 2 will have director James Cameron “shaking in his boots”, and acknowledged how the sequel will now be a Christmas movie, despite not being set in Christmas.
That’s right, Shazam 2 is getting released 6 months earlier and now comes this December! ⚡️ https://t.co/NjQyi07Bcp
It’s funny how Shazam 1 was a Christmas movie released in April and Shazam 2 is a summer movie getting released at Christmas. It’s the Shazam way.
