New, never-before-seen footage from Shazam! Fury of the Gods has captured the moment that one of the film’s heroes loses her powers. First obtained by Comic Book Resources, the deleted scene was one of multiple to be included in the DC film’s home media release. The clip sees Grace Caroline Currey’s character of Mary Marvel involved in a sky-bound chase with Lucy Liu‘s Kalypso.
After boarding the dragon Ladon, Kalypso follows Marvel into the clouds, where she’s eventually struck by an invisible force and blasted by Kalypso’s staff. Marvel then reverts back to her non-superhero alter ego, before plummeting back to earth. The clip is noticeably free of the visual effects given to scenes used in the theatrical cut of the movie, which suggests that Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg scrapped it early-on in the production process. Watch the full deleted scene below.
The aerial showdown between Marvel and Kalypso is one of multiple deleted scenes to surface since the release of Fury of the Gods in March. Elsewhere, fans have seen an extended cut of an interaction between characters Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer), which included a callback reference to fellow DC film, Justice League.
Inversely, fans have also declared that they saw a scene in the final theatrical cut of Fury of the Gods that Sandberg insists never appeared. Audiences believed they had watched the titular hero in a throne scene alongside various versions of other Shazam,, to which Sandberg responded that “it has never been in the movie.”
“Sorry but that version of the movie doesn’t exist,” the director explained. “I’m sure it’s weird but memories just can’t be trusted.” In any case, the influx of deleted scenes might prove too little, too late for Fury of the Gods, which recently lost to the equally reviled Morbius in terms of box office success. Add in an onslaught of negative reviews and you’ve got a DC film fans would prefer to forget.
Published: May 22, 2023 11:18 pm