Shazam! Costume Cost $1 Million Each And Production Has 10 Suits

There's a pretty good reason why Zachary Levi's Shazam costume looks so darn good. It turns out that the outfit took about three months to make, and about $1 million to get done.

Shazam! costume designer Leah Butler just recently spoke in an interview with Total Magazine, and during the discussion with the entertainment news outlet, the designer revealed just how complex and costly the superhero suit was to make. According to Butler, the outfit ended up costing more than a million apiece, and the production for Shazam! has ten.

"It took 16 weeks to build the costume," the costume designer said, "We had to scan [Zachary Levi's] body and start building the costume even before he started his very strict regime - his diet and working out... Each suit costs, oh boy, upwards of a million? We have ten suits."

It wasn't easy to build the outfit. The production had to bring in a sculptor to create a physical mold of Levi's body so that his form would be available for the creation of the superhero suit.

Butler also described the suit in detail, revealing how she and her team took a quite a number of cues from DC's New 52 for the outfit. For those who aren't that familiar with the New 52 comics, this means that Butler took inspiration from Shazam's hooded cape. Not only that, but according to the costume designer, the design had a lot of Greek and Roman Symbolism in it as well, including a texture that had to be 3D printed on the fabric used for the outfit.

"The exterior suit is a spandex suit that goes over a musculature suit, and each muscle has been sculpted on the body of Zach so it accents and highlights his shape and size," she said. "There is actually a battery in the back - we luckily had a cape to cover it all up or I don't know where we would have put all that stuff - and it is remotely lit through a switchboard operator. There is wiring throughout the costume. It's a 26-volt AA rechargeable battery. It lasts about two hours at full charge."

Looks like director David F. Sandberg and his team put a lot of effort into creating a comic-book accurate movie. We can't wait to see how Shazam! is going to turn out later this year.

Shazam! premieres April 5, 2019.

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