Shazam! Fury of the Gods gets digital release date

In Fury of the Gods, Billy and his foster siblings adapt to being powerful superheroes and try to fend off the Daughters of Atlas who have a grudge against the wizard that gave them powers. The sequel features more intense fight scenes with the family working together to defeat the legendary villains.

While DC did its best to promote the movie, Shazam 2's box office performance was pretty bad. The poor showing may have prompted Warner Bros. Discovery to release the film on digital platforms. This is similar to Warner Bros. releasing Black Adam to digital platforms after its lackluster ticket sales.

The poor performance of Shazam has also been linked to the production of Black Adam last year. Levi revealed that DC originally intended for Shazam and Black Adam to face off. Hawkman and Cyclone were dispatched by the Justice Society of America to recruit Shazam to stop Black Adam. The plan was scrapped at the last minute.

"That was not the original intent," Levi reveals. "The original intent was to have Hawkman and Cyclone be there inviting me [into the Justice Society]. Walter Hamada, Peter Safran, David Sandberg … we had an awesome scene that would have tied me into the JSA with Hawkman and with Cyclone and we were thwarted.

Shazam may ultimately share the same fate as Black Adam after the poor box-office performance of the sequel. There are currently no projects lined up for Shazam in the rebooted DC Universe.