Shazam! (film) early 2000s, with multiple screenplay drafts by William Goldman, the team of Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, Bryan Goluboff, and John August. The version of the "Shazam!" script written by August, which went into pre-production in 2008, was an action-comedy which focused on the origin story of the hero, then known by his original name of Captain Marvel, and his young alter ego, Billy Batson. Peter Segal was attached as director and actor Dwayne Johnson was in talks to appear as the film's villain, Black Adam. The "Shazam!" film was being produced by New Line Cinema, which was absorbed into
Ego Is the Enemy In the weeks after its release, the book was listed by "Inc." as one of the must-read business books that summer. The book went on to achieve bestseller status lists by "USA Today", "Chicago Tribune", and "Publishers Weekly". Ego Is the Enemy Ego Is the Enemy is the fourth book by author Ryan Holiday, published on June 14, 2016. It is about the treacherous nature of ego. Having previously written about external obstacles in his book "The Obstacle Is the Way", Holiday sought to answer questions about what to do when the biggest obstacle is internal. In the prologue of