Read more: How the Shazam Movie Brings Magic to the DCEU He feels like he’s better than everyone else.
“He has his own company in our movie, Sivana Industries. “In looking at different ideas for him, I’ve actually come across some little tidbits throughout the history of him being a wealthy tycoon,” Butler says. It’s something that you can see reflected in his wardrobe, which steps away from the white lab coat, long the character’s trademark comic book look, in favor of something far more eye catching if a bit retro. The impression is of a misguided Indiana Jones type who spends his life obsessed with the acquisition of magical relics and the power it can bring him after a brush with destiny. So just as Shazam is a magically powered superhero, so this Sivana is a magically powered villain. “He’s tall, he stands well, he’s very strong and different than the slouched over mad scientist that he has been in the past.” “ has such a great look to him,” says costume designer Leah Butler. “He’s much more robust and much more powerful.” “He gets to fly, he can create electric fields in his hands, and fire electricity,” Strong says. Instead, he’s based more directly on Geoff Johns’ and Gary Frank’s 2012 reimagining of the character as a magically powered relic hunter, capable of matching Shazam in battle, just as the original version had to use his evil mind to outsmart superheroic muscle. That Sivana was known for increasingly ludicrous, almost whimsical schemes intended to destroy his enemies and rule the world, rarely (if ever) with lethal (or even effective) results. The version of Sivana that we’ll meet in the Shazam movie is quite different from the hunched, cackling mad scientist who menaced our hero for nearly 80 years. So there’s something historic about a villain who has been around as long as Sivana finally making his big screen debut. Sivana, the greatest villain in the Shazam mythos (Black Adam came along much later and only became prominent in recent years) beat the similarly follically challenged Lex Luthor to the newsstands by several months. Some might scratch the surface and point out that both heroes are menaced by bald mad scientists for much of their careers. Hell, his very first comic (1939’s Whiz Comics #2) even featured him abusing an automobile, just like Superman did on the cover of 1938’s Action Comics #1. You swap a sci-fi origin for a magical one, you swap a whole lot of blue in the costume for a whole lot of red, and you’re still left with a super strong, flying, invulnerable, and caped hero. The Shazam concept (back when he was called, yes, Captain Marvel), was indisputably a response to Superman and the superhero boom that kicked off the golden age of comics. Sivana, a character played by Mark Strong in the upcoming Shazam movie, it helps to have a little bit of a grasp on some ancient comic book history.
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