AQUAMAN Test-Screening Spoilers

There was a test-screening for James Wan's AQUAMAN today, and the audience reaction was positive. Plot details have leaked.


One year after JUSTICE LEAGUE, Aquaman (Jason Momoa) is protecting the oceans, and joins forces with Mera (Amber Heard) to prevent a war between Atlantis and the surface world.

Aquaman is the son of human lighthouse keeper Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison) and Atlantean princess Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), who was eventually forced to abandon them to marry General Atlan (Graham McTavish), with whom she had another son, Orm (Patrick Wilson).

Orm becomes king of Atlantis and wants to destroy the surface world for polluting the ocean. As the rightful heir to the throne, Aquaman is the only one who can stop him.

Orm hires Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) to stop Aquaman from interfering with his plans. Black Manta is a mercenary who wants revenge against Aquaman because Aquaman's father killed his father, who was a pirate. Orm also commands an army of underwater monsters called "The Trench".

Mera's father, Nereus (Dolph Lundgren), is the ruler of one of Atlantis' cities and commands its army. He dislikes Aquaman and the surface world at first, but Mera eventually convinces him to help them stop Orm.

The movie is very faithful to Geoff Johns' New 52 series and is said to be "action-packed", but also "very emotional".

There's several flashbacks to Aquaman's childhood and adolescence, revealing how he discovered his powers and learned to control them.

Atlantis' design was described as "a cross between FINAL FANTASY and the STAR WARS prequels".

Orm is the main villain, Black Manta is a secondary antagonist. Both have very comic-accurate costumes.

Aquaman wears his classic yellow and green suit in one scene.

Mostly standalone, with no greater connections to the DCEU than a direct reference to Steppenwolf's invasion.

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ive had a good feeling about this one for a while. im cautiously optimistic

wont save the "DCEU" though. that ones fucking dead & buried

nobody fucking cares

>the audience reaction was positive.
They are always positive. Doesn’t mean Rotten Tomatoes will like it. Also doing the GoT Battle for the Throne after Black Panther is going to hurt them.

Been buried since BvS, even Justice League couldnʻt save them

James Wan is a good director I hope this is a decent movie

Jason Momoa didn't impress me in "Justice League". I sense Kidman and Dafoe will carry him like Chris Pine carried Gal Gadot in "Wonder Woman".

power girl when?

sounds fucking awful but it is DC so I can't say I'm surprised

can't wait to see it destroyed by Bumblebee, Into the Spider-verse, Alita, and Holmes and Watson

This. The best DC can hope for now is a handful of standalone character movies like this (maybe) and Wonder Woman. Probably get another Suicide Squad since it made money and a few others. But they won't try to connect shit for a long time, if ever again in this booting. I only ever wanted a Superman trilogy. I knew when they diverted to BvS that they were going to fuck it up. Most of us did. And then they did. Can we just get a good superman trilogy with no strings and no hijacking?

these milkers are of insufficient size

>Black Manta
How the fuck are they going to translate him to live action? I've never seen a design of him that didn't look goofy as fuck

In a sexy costume? Never. Those days are gone forever. Sad. Feminists won.

Are you the one posting this in all Aquaman threads?

(((Disney))) shilling intesifies

I hate to admit it but this is going to flop hard

These would be called "comic accurate" by today's standards and since the character is a "mercenary" they suit him.

>the audience reaction was positive
trainwreck confirmed

Who is ready for the countermarketing from Disney about how racist Aquaman is for making a black pirate a villain?

I always believed.

With his quintet?

Temuera as Aquaman's father.
So how does this kiwi guy always play the dad of the main character. Jango Fett, Moana's father and now Tom Curry?

Nah, they're probably too busy trying to figure out how to reboot Indiana Jones with a Trans Genderfluid Disabled Muslim Person of Color™

>matrilineal succession

The DCEU is in no need of saving because their cast is good
All they need are good movies to course correct

Isn't Affleck done with Batman anyway?

>How the fuck are they going to translate him to live action?
He'll be horrendously done CGI like everything else in capeshit.

Sounds like Black Panther but with Ocean.

>Mera's father, Nereus (Dolph Lundgren), is the ruler of one of Atlantis' cities and commands its army. He dislikes Aquaman and the surface world at first, but Mera eventually convinces him to help them stop Orm.

Sounds familiar.

STOP SPAMMING THIS FAGGOT

I really hope it doesn't, solely because I don't want to read the stupid headlines
>Aquaman belly flops at the box office
>Aquaman fails to make a big splash
>After Aquaman, can the DCEU sink any deeper?
>WB execs holding their breath for Aquaman's opening weekend
>Aquaman marks a sink or swim moment for DC
>Aquaman fails to be a watershed moment in the DCEU
>DC fans are calling Aquaman a success, but do their arguments hold any water?
>The DCEU will need more than Aquaman to keep it afloat
>Why WB should cast away the DCEU after Aquaman
>Aquaman: 20,000 leagues under the profit margin

SEETHING Aquafan.

Black Panther already did the Battle-for-throne plot. Too little too late.

meanwhile some WB retard executive: not positive enough Wan, reshoot half the movie please!

Prepare for more Black Panther comparisons.

Based

Aquaman is garbage, and looks like they are copying MARVEL again.

That's like asking a sunken ship to course correct. JL pushed their shit in big time. They're just going to see what titles do well and run sequels to them. You might get an Easter egg here and there but when the dog shits the bed this badly, you don't let the dog in bed again.

>oh dude, are you hype to see the AQUAMAN movie?
just kidding nobody would ever say this

You shut your damn mouth Manta is a treasure

Reminder the script was completely rewritten.

Reminder that the original movie was suppose to be darker and have a “horror” element (very lovevraftian). But then BvS was considered “too dark”.

Then they made Wan made the film more “Fun” like Marvel Studios (because Whedon’s Justice League turned out sssoooo great!!!)

We could have had Aquaman Kino if WB didn’t chicken out like pussies.

He is now. I think he intended to be Batman for a while but personal shit plus the Flop That Was Heard Around The Earth have soured him on it all. It's a shame because it could have been good if they'd not rushed shit and just gave him his own Batman movie (no origin, just similar to how BvS started with just a few references to old time) it would have been awesome.

>The movie is very faithful to Geoff Johns' New 52 series
welp...

I know that, but you can't deny that he doesn't look goofy. He looks like the alienware logo, which can work in a comic, but not in live action without some changes

>But then BvS was considered “too dark”.
More like a murky mess not enjoyable crap. The Dark Knight was a billion dollar success and it was very dark. It just wast very entertaining too.

Affleck didn’t like the Batman script and it was reported to be extremely terrible.

Said script was written by Geoff Johns (the man who literally hates Batman more than Adolf Hitler and never read his comics) and Chris Terrio. The villain was suppose to be Deathstroke (because when you think BATMAN iconic villains, you think Deathstroke. NOT.) whom was cameoed in JL.

Matt Reeves (the man who wrote the Planet of the Ape Kinos) threw the script out and did a rewrite. Which is good Because Reeves>>>>>>Johns.

>Trident
>5 points
Fucking
Reeeeeeeeeeeee

It's not a trident, bro. It's just a 5-pronged, barbed spear.

Hi DisneyMom

>hating a classic design

A pun is at least moderately clever unlike modern clickbait articles
>why Aquaman sunk...and that's a good thing

Well at least James Wan is a good director unlike coonger

Disny millenial, watch superman 1978, batman 1989
>copy marvel

>The DCEU is in no need of saving because their cast is good

Its going to be bullseye from Ben afflecks daredevil all over again. I bet he wears a leather jacket too.

>The DCEU is in no need of saving because their cast is good

>the villain takes the throne from the rightful king
>the other villain wants revenge for the death of his father

>The movie is very faithful to Geoff Johns' New 52 series
Fuck yeah best Aquaman run

wan has the black manta actor dubbing his lines with a bucket on his head so it would sound like he was talking inside a helmet.

so it will sound like BANE

i worked some justice league press tours and the first thing ben would do is ask the interviewer where they were from and then google the profit BVS made in that country

This looks about right desu

considering ant man that looks fine
but we all know wb will manage to fuck up somehow

Why would anyone watch an Aquaman movie? I don't get it.

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Ant-Man doesn't look like Mecha Stewie Griffin though. He has a suit with regular looking proportions, even if the design is a little cheesy. Blank Manta has a football head with ayy lmao eyes

Why?

Not enough black people or African heritage. Sorry, gonna have to pass on this one.

let's see him google the justice league grossings

Those eyes in the water lighting up would be an great visual

Does Mera show any feet/armpit?

>and the audience reaction was positive

according to the guy who was saying journalists were loving Justice League

He won't look like this though, he will actually look pretty close to the comics

That's actually based. Your country didn't contribute, you don't get my attention.

>The movie is very faithful to Geoff Johns' New 52 series

Except, you know, in casting.

Oh, you thought the black guy wasn't going to be the good guy in the end, and get to dick the White female character (why else did they cast a white female character when they decided to color-stain Aquaman?)

>he didn't speak to anyone

>the first thing ben would do is ask the interviewer where they were from
>he didn't speak to anyone
So he did or didn't speak to anyone? You mean he asked "where are you from" googled, then moved to the next person? Fuckin' Rainman shit there.

How will Wan adapt this iconic scenes?

youtube.com/watch?v=y0aDXbi8prk

youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7o0TSw8Ls

with a jumpscare

DOSTOYEVSK

>That Black Manta

This will either look great or absolutely dreadful. No middle ground.

>Atlantis' design was described as "a cross between FINAL FANTASY and the STAR WARS prequels"
lmao, can't wait for the webms

A literal sea-monkey

It'll be a CGI mess.

This is the only capeshit I'm actually a little excited for.

>Doesn't take place in a city instead underwater civilization.

ummmmmm sweetie comic books dont have casting they have drawings

Mantaposting doesn't have such a nice tone to it as baneposting

Hey we got Psylocke in a faithful design in Apocalypse (because based munn pushed for it), we got the form fitting cloak skin in Ghost in the Shell. Harley.
Don't loose hope anons.

Also Gemma Atkinson for PowerG

Hopefully they will handle it in a mechanical manner similar to Stargate.

>Atlantis' design was described as "a cross between FINAL FANTASY and the STAR WARS prequels"

wew

Fucking awesome! I'm legit looking foward to this.

Gadot just killed any chance of that happening

Look at her arms, she is not even remotely that fucking skinny today.
Piss off faggot.

>Aquaman is the son of Atlantean princess Atlanna (Nicole Kidman)

Nicole Kidman's in this? That's pretty cool.

So you can grow muscle. How do you grow a waistline? Faggot!

that's a fly

>that pic
So accurate, it hurts.

>Dolph Lundgren

I'm in. Isn't Willem Dafoe in this as well?

Harley Quinn's movie costume was basically stripper gear when they could've gone with the classic jester suit or something else more conservative. I wouldn't be so sure.

Do you think Polynesians are going to go nuts for the first Polynesian superhero ?