12/31/2022 0 Comments Shazam costume![]() “ envisioned a much shorter cape,” Butler told us. ![]() The Cape is Much Different from the Comics (L-r) JACK DYLAN GRAZER, director DAVID SANDBERG and ZACHARY LEVI behind the scenes on New Line Cinema’s action adventure “SHAZAM!,” a Warner Bros.“We can do great illustrations and the most wonderful photos, but then we must make it work on the body.” Eventually, they succeeded. Butler says it took a lot of work to make such a thing happen. She needed the lighted emblem to flow with his body and look like an organic part of the suit. Butler and her team mocked up the lighting elements and printed them, but the challenge came in making the hard parts fit the suit and Levi’s body. ![]() Sandberg was the one who had the idea of lighting up the suit and the gauntlets the hero wears onscreen. All of them except Christopher Reeves, that is. Butler told us that superheroes in the movies have always needed the padding. Incidentally, Levi’s suit has a thin layer of foam padding to define his muscle tone in the suit. She says, “Just look at Christopher Reeve’s Superman versus Henry Cavill’s.” The suit fits much better and is texturized for a more otherworldly feel. According to Butler, the modern superhero costume is 3-D printed to allow for better fit. Superhero costumes have been 3-D printed for quite some time. The fabric and design were already accommodating enough for those movements. There was no need to make alternative versions to allow for the movements of the stunts in the film. Butler had to make small alterations to the suit all the time to ensure that if fit and flowed with Levi’s changing body when he wore it on camera.īutler confided that her team created 10 copies of the suit, 5 for Levi and 5 for his stunt double. Doing so made his body change ever so slightly over time. Levi was bulking up and working out throughout the production of the film. It reminded me of those big pink balls we used in elementary school for kickball! The foam is sprayed in a key pattern that is raised to give a textured look when it dries. Shazam’s suit is made of a lycra spandex material that has a foam rubber sprayed on top of it. Even the buttons that hold down the cape are 3-D printed! She adds embellishments, accessories, and everything else to the basic uniform. Every inch of him is measured and those measurements entered into a computer program that Butler used to help design the costume. #SHAZAM COSTUME FULL#The costume department began their process by making Levi get a full body scan. ![]() But, first, all of the pieces were 3-D printed and cut onto fabric pieces that were then sewn together. Here 10 of the most surprising details about the Shazam superhero suit.īutler shocked us all by saying that every piece of Levi’s costume from the cape to the boots, was handmade. I have to admit, some of the details were too cool (and too hard) to keep to ourselves until now. We got to spend time with her as she spilled some precious details on the making of the Shazam suit worn by Zachary Levi in the film. ![]() Despite that episode and other rumors and issues, Butler was able to assure us that the suit was fine. That leak was upsetting to costume designer Leah Butler because it was nowhere close to the real depiction of her creation. Let’s face it, there has been a lot of drama surrounding the Shazam suit since the first photos leaked during production last spring. ![]()
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