No Shazam in the Justice League Movie?

<p>So with apparently every superhero being introduced in Warner Brothers&&num;8217&semi; upcoming <em><strong>Batman V Superman&colon; Dawn of Justice<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t seem like too much a stretch that <strong>Captain Marvel&sol;Shazam<&sol;strong> would show up&quest; Considering the character has his own movie coming up &lpar;with <strong>Dwayne Johnson<&sol;strong> playing his nemesis <strong>Black Adam<&sol;strong>&rpar; and does play a bigger role in DC Comics as of lately&comma; one might think he&&num;8217&semi;ll be getting the same star treatment as <strong>Wonder Woman<&sol;strong> and <strong>Aquaman<&sol;strong>&period; But now it seems as though <strong>Shazam<&sol;strong> will not only be excluded from Batman V Superman&comma; the forth coming <em><strong>Justice League<&sol;strong><&sol;em> movie as well&period; Why&quest; The <em><strong>Shazam<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>movie is being produced under New Line instead of Warner Brothers making it less likely for a crossover&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s for sure a guarantee that the character is out of the connected DC cinematic universe so there&&num;8217&semi;s still some hope&&num;8230&semi;I hope&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At least Toby Emmerich of New Line ensured Entertainment Weekly in an interview that the movie will be more fun and less grim&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>It feels to me like Shazam will have a tone unto itself&period; It’s a DC comic&comma; but it’s not a Justice League character&comma; and it’s not a Marvel comic&period; The tone and the feeling of the movie will be different from the other range of comic book movies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Shazam&rsqb; will have a sense of fun and a sense of humor&period; But the stakes have to be real&period; … Black Adam is a complex character&period; The villain in superhero movies is often&comma; I think&comma; what makes the movie&period; And I thought Dwayne’s take on the character&comma; and the way that he saw Black Adam&comma; was really compelling and fun&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>So while I&&num;8217&semi;m a bit saddened that <em><strong>Shazam<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>won&&num;8217&semi;t join up with the <em><strong>League<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m much more excited for this film now knowing that it&&num;8217&semi;ll be outside the range of DC&&num;8217&semi;s supposed no-funny-stuff superhero universe&period; The character in question is Billy Batson&comma; a 10-year-old boy who gains the power to transform into the magically heroic <strong>Captain Marvel<&sol;strong> by shouting the word &&num;8220&semi;SHAZAM&excl;&&num;8221&semi; You gotta have a little fun with a concept like that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No official word on who will be playing the lead role&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;insidemovies&period;ew&period;com&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;03&sol;shazam-movie-rock-fun&sol;">EW<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;