Warning: SPOILERS for Shazam! Fury of the Gods are forward!
In the event you had been fortunate sufficient to not keep away from seeing that spoilery Shazam! Fury of the Gods TV spot, you then had been like probably shocked by the foremost cameo in the direction of the top of the most recent DC film. After Billy Batson gave his life to avoid wasting Earth from Kalypso, Gal Gadot’s Marvel Girl got here to the Gods’ Realm to restore The Wizard’s workers, which was subsequently used to revive Billy and restore the Realm. Nonetheless, it wasn’t simple capturing Gadot’s massive cameo in Fury of the Gods, and director David F. Sandberg has revealed the wild approach he pulled it off.
Grace Caroline Curry, who performs Mary Bromfield in each her civilian and superhero varieties in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, knowledgeable CinemaBlend that logistical points stopping the sequel’s forged from filming with Gal Gadot. So as an alternative, a stand-in was used on set, and as David F. Sandberg shared on Twitter, he was compelled to direct Gadot remotely, which you’ll be able to see under.
A sure cameo in #ShazamFuryOfTheGods needed to be shot in England however I couldn’t go due to a visa difficulty so I directed remotely. It wasn’t a deepfake as some consider. pic.twitter.com/p8ODDHWe9QMarch 22, 2023
A mixture of Gal Gadot being in England and David F. Sandberg being unable to go to the nation as a consequence of a “visa difficulty” required to ship directions on how he needed her scene to be shot over a video name. It doesn’t appear like it was too sophisticated an endeavor, with the man on the opposite finish of the decision ensuring he understood Sandberg’s directions earlier than feeding them again to the actress who made her DCEU debut in Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice.
Whereas it’s a disgrace that the opposite Shazam! Fury of the Gods actors weren’t in a position to meet Gal Gadot, not less than this isn’t one other occasion of solely a stand-in getting used for an enormous DC superhero look, like when a headless Superman popped up on the finish of Shazam!. This marked Gadot’s fifth look as Marvel Girl (if we’re counting each variations of Justice League), and adopted just a little over two years after she was seen in Marvel Girl 1984. Jack Dylan Grazer additionally seemingly let slip that we’ll see Gadot again as Diana of Themyscira in Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom, however her look in The Flash was reportedly reduce.
As for what the longer term holds in retailer for Gal Gadot’s Marvel Girl after 2023, that’s unclear. Final December, Marvel Girl 3 was scrapped, and whereas there’s a present known as Paradise Misplaced in growth for the DC Universe franchise that can happen on Themyscira earlier than Diana’s start, there was no point out of Marvel Girl herself throughout the presentation for the Chapter One slate, a.ok.a. “Gods and Monsters.” That stated, DC Studios co-head James Gunn debunked the declare that Gadot’s time as Marvel Girl is completed, so all we will do for now could be watch for official clarification on the place issues stand along with her.
Within the meantime, you’ll want to learn our different protection about Shazam! Fury of the Gods, equivalent to David F. Sandberg explaining why the Justice League wasn’t concerned, and the upcoming DC films. In the event you’d fairly watch the launched DC films so as, stream these with an HBO Max subscription.
