With Warner Bros.—which has a history of unveiling first looks at its big DC Universe films at the end of March—remaining eerily quiet on the film, rumors have emerged on social media that the release of Ready Player One would bring with it a first trailer for James Wan’s Aquaman. But today, the director took to…
For the past two storylines, Dan Abnett’s Aquaman has focused on Atlantis, exploring the political and social aspects of the underwater city as the titular hero gives up his crown to fight for the underdogs. The change in focus completely reinvigorated the series, along with a bold new visual aesthetic that set it…
A blockbuster with more studio notes than script (underlined: “Be more Marvel”), Justice League attempts to inject some levity and rock ’n’ roll into Zack Snyder’s dinosaurian version of the DC Comics-verse; in many cases, it ends up with the worst of multiple worlds. Gone are the artistic pretensions and doofy…
The key to making Aquaman a compelling concept lies under the sea, and stories that focus on Atlantis and other underwater communities (like Sub Diego, a sunken section of San Diego) bring out the best in Aquaman creators. After 24 issues that spent far too much time on land, writer Dan Abnett has reworked the series…
Warner Bros. opened the DC portion of its Comic-Con panel today with a hefty burst of visual information for fans, showing off the logos for what seemed to be every single one of its upcoming comic book adaptations. Some of these were old news—we’ve been fielding reports on, say, Suicide Squad II for a while now—but…
Third Watch star Michael Beach has been cast as a character named Jesse Kane in Aquaman—at least that’s the official story Warner Bros. is telling, according to Deadline. Kane is reportedly a “high-seas hijacker” who has a “fateful interaction with Aquaman” in James Wan’s film. But, as Deadline points out, speculation…
DC Comics has spent a lot of time trying to prove that Aquaman isn’t a joke, but the best way to do that is by putting him in a great comic. Writer Dan Abnett’s run on Aquaman during Rebirth has been pretty bland from both a narrative and artistic perspective, but the arrival of new editor Andy Khouri and new artist…
Jason Momoa will get some help defending Atlantis against interlopers from a teenage warrior—Deadline reports that Ludi Lin, who played the Black Ranger in the rebooted Power Rangers, has joined the cast of Aquaman. Lin is set to play Murk, the leader of the Men-of-War, which is like the Atlantean infantry. He’s also…
We’ve had a lot of fun cracking jokes about Aquaman, because frankly, it’s really easy. But that Justice League trailer made it seem like the DC films are going to be pretty self-aware when it comes to the character, and possess a good sense of humor about Jason Momoa’s long-haired beefcake of a guy who talks to fish.…
Who he is: Aquaman, a.k.a. Arthur Curry, King Of Atlantis
It looks like Dolph Lundgren’s recent stint on Arrow has given him a taste for superheroics, because The Hollywood Reporter says he has just signed on to James Wan’s Aquaman. This will be Lundgren’s first role in a comic book movie since The Punisher in 1989, and this time he’ll be playing King Nereus, the ruler of an…
Release date: July 27, 2018
Nailing down his rep as Hollywood’s go-to guy for the damp action genre, Aquaman screenwriter Will Beall is making his way over to Universal’s The Creature From The Black Lagoon. Beall—who also penned Gangster Squad and the TV version of Training Day, although there’s no fish parallels there, so whatevs—will write the…
Two DCEU movies will be out this year—Wonder Woman and Justice League—but Warner Bros. suddenly fits itself with a little time on its hands. Aquaman’s release date has been bumped to Christmas 2018, and with The Batman under the guidance of a new director, the standalone Caped Crusader film is still very much in the…
Because nothing says “Happy Holidays!” like a glowering fishman trying to impale his enemies with a fork, Warner Bros. has announced that it’s pushing its upcoming Aquaman movie back on the schedule, to December 21, 2018. Per Variety, that’s a two-month move; James Wan and Jason Momoa’s submerged superhero flick was…
Zack Snyder may not be directing Aquaman—that’s James Wan’s job—but he’s still pretty pumped about watching the superhero show off his impressive power of possessing gills while otherwise being a very tall, very gorgeous man. The Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice director and Aquaman producer even ignored his own…
Actor Temuera Morrison, best known for his role as Boba Fett’s dad Jango Fett (and all his various clones) in the Star Wars saga, has been cast in the upcoming Aquaman film. Continuing his track record of playing the pater familias to cinematic badasses, Morrison will portray Aquaman’s dad, Thomas Curry, a fisherman…
Reminding us that even hulking sea kings love their mamas, Variety reports that Nicole Kidman is in talks to join the cast of James Wan’s Aquaman. Kidman would play Atlanna, the undersea princess whose fetish for grizzled, lonely lighthouse keepers ultimately leads to Aquaman’s conception and eventual birth.
Despite Michael K. Williams publicly throwing his name into the running, Warner Bros. has announced that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from Netflix’s The Get Down will be playing the villainous Black Manta in director James Wan’s Aquaman movie. That comes from Variety, which says Moonlight‘s Trevante Rhodes and 24: Legacy‘s…
If there’s one thing you can say about Patrick Wilson, it’s that he looks so much like Jason Momoa that the two could’ve been separated at birth. If you were to put the two of them in a room together, they’d probably end up doing that bit from old cartoons where a character thinks they’re looking in a mirror and keep…
