I know, I know. How the hell are you going to make people interested in Aquaman? It's a tough one for sure. He has a trident. He lives in the water. Unless there is a water-related crisis, he's kinda just whatever. In the Justice League flick, they tried to turn him into a bit of a heavy hitter, but you've got Wonder Woman and Superman for that. Aquaman can seem a bit useless on the team, where he's stronger than Batman but not as smart, weaker than Superman, and slower than the Flash. What are we going to do with a guy who swims fast and talks to fish?
Well, they picked Jason Mamoa to play him in the films, which was a smart choice. Mamoa looks like a straight badass, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to screw with him, fish or no fish. They also can look to Dan Abnett's 2016 New 52 comic-book reboot, which used the character's ridiculousness to his advantage, setting him up as a bit of an underdog, playing to humor, and also having awesome fight sequences with his revamped foes. There's a lot of solid material in the first two volumes to draw on, if Hollywood was so inclined (although they rarely are).
There's a leaked synopsis that surfaced earlier in the year that goes a little like this: “Aquaman will center on Aquaman as a reluctant ruler of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis who is caught between land dwellers that are always polluting the globe and his own people who are ready to invade the surface.”
This sounds almost a bit like Captain Planet, but that's fine. There's a pseudo-trailer below that is mainly comprised of his bits in the Justice League film, but it's still pretty cool despite not being official, and hell, I'll say it; it makes me a little excited to see what Marvel comes up with for the Atlantean.
Aquaman's theatrical release is set for December 21, 2018.
