Aquaman tv series news!
 

For those not aware the creators of Smallville are now making an Aquaman tv series....no official title as of yet but "Atlas Point" and "Devil's Deep" have been played around with.

And now the series reportadly has a lead!

Will Toale, who performed in a New York production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," has allegedly been picked for the lead role. He'll be playing Arthur "A.C." Curry. Will's TV and movie credits including playing a "Briefs Model" in the movie "Uptown Girls" and a role in a 2004 TV-movie called "Tempting Adam." On TV, he appeared on the soap Guiding Light.

Here's a pic of him...he's cute! :evilgrin:

http://www.aquamantv.com/aquawill2.jpg

Could he look anymore like Matt Damon?

who gives a rat ass. I am more cuter than him. Mr. model thinks he has a shot at this show. hOW ABOUt they not making aquaman. He's in love with seaman.

Why is it everytime you post, its' like watching God kill, ressurect, and then mentally retard a kitten?

Seriously, I give a damn, other people could possibly give a damn, hence why this thread was posted by Raph, since when the hell did you speak for everyone?

Is that the same guy who played AC in Smallville, or a diffrent actor?

Aye, Aquaman is a quite cool hero. Sure, he had some bad writing in the past, but in his essence, he's really cool. Okay, I might be biased, since I grew up at and in a lake, but then again, who wouldn't want to breathe underwater. Besides, he has got potential.

I am looking forward to this.

BTW: Zarius, that kitten-quote of yours is really funny. :D

He has'nt had bad writing for years either, just look at what JL got away with, severed hands and all.

Sadly, that Aquaman seems to be slowly regressing back to his silver age variations due to DCs' stupid insistence on making their titles "lighter", no more kickass Artur with a beard warlord badass.....:cry:

Different actor...the original actor couldn't cut it plus he's got his music career going now. :roll:

The Aquaman tv series has nothing to do with the episode of Smallville.

I don't speak for anyone else here.. I am just mad he posts so much news it's not funny.

I apoligze.. so you guys, don't worry I won't force myself in and tlel you all to stop reading the messages.

Turtle Dude:

1: Im a female, if ya couldn't tell from my name... :P

2: I post news because people like to be informed and I thought people (particularly Aquaman fans) would like to know about the Aquaman tv series.

Im not the only one who posts news here anyways.

wow. thats interesting news. i cant wait for this aquaman series.


off topic. flaming by a poster and encourement from a mod. atleast now i know why my warning hasent been lifted yet.

Oooh, poor you... I said the quote was funny, not the thing you call a flame here. If it was a flame, I would have said so.

But go on whining, it's the best thing you can do. Besides, I can be as much of a mod as I want and I still don't get a say in warning-business.

huh?

ON topic.

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as long as they have the orange and green. Ill be happy with whomever they want to use.

Using picture of guy from smallville as an example of the usage of orange and green.

Welp... it's official... Will Toale has officially been cast as Arthur "A.C." Curry.

Now if only they can figure out a title...and they still need to cast his U.S Coast Guard Foster father.

I strongly suggest that the show's called "Aquaman". "Atlantis" sounds silly, "King of the sea" is sorta cheesy, "Lighttower" is even more stupid..., "The Curry Chronicles" sounds like a documentary on indian food. I just can't think of anything decent.

But I'm sure they'll come up with something mindblowingly daft.

Aquaman TV series......


*points gun to head*

I've seen it all. No more reason to stay around this planet.

Remeber what people were saying before Smallville started? Its a stupid idea, superman is so chessy...well now every person I know at school talks about the show, its a part of every ones life.

So if the creators of Smallvillie are working on this, I'm not going to worry!

:ohwell:
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hmmm, well I'm not a huge Aquaman fan... but I do enjoy the Smallville series, I'd really like to see where they take the Aquaman story... this definatley has my interest peaked...
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:D

And thats why u havent gotten laid or never will get laid by a woman

Man, too bad he's a father or your insult wouldn't come off as idiotic.

Don't watch Smallville and probably won't watch Aquaman...but good for the character! atleast he won't be seen in the public view as the gay guy in the superfriends anymore.

Hmmm...any word on when this is supposed to begin filming?

:lol:

...Were you raised in the school of generic insulting?

I heard that the writers decided, instead of making Aquaman the lost king of Atlantis, to just make him some owner of a diving shop or something...:-? Kinda defeats the superhero thing, IMO...

Just out of curiousity, anyone know who ripped who off? Namor or Aquaman? Both are atlantean princes, only one looks like Spock with a pony tail.

Namor came first I think. He was created around WWII

Filming starts soon in Florida. They'll probably start filming as soon as they cast the father figure.

As for Namor vs Aquaman. Namor's been around since 1939. He first showed up having adventures with the original Human Torch (a robot).

Aquaman first came onto the scenes November 1941 in More Fun Comics #73.

Aquaman is the ruler of the Atlantian continent (which actually has some cities on the surface)...the capitol is Poseidonis and Lori Lemaris (the mermaid ex of Superman) is from Tritonis (which was once a seperate nation).

Here's info all about Aquaman's Atlantis:
http://www.dcuguide.com/where.php?name=atlantis

And for those wondering...don't worry...we'll see Namor in theatres soon enough in a movie titled "Sub-Mariner" (which comes out either this year or next year)

Oh BTW.. Namor is considered to be a mutant. Yes he's half human/half Atlantian (Homo Mermanus... Who the frak thought that one up? :lol: ) but he also has mutant powers (such as flight) Aquaman's all Atlantian(or Poseidian) :P

wow. im impressed. you know your alantians.

I have a slight obsession with the Atlantis myth so I've researched every possible thing about Atlantis there is. :lol:

It's the reason why Stargate Atlantis is one of my fave shows and why I love the fact that the new TMNT series is so connected with the Atlantis myth. :D

Ok more on the new Aquaman series.

The series is supposed to premier this fall on the WB network.

There are more pictures of Will Toale including one that has some info on him. For instance his fave book is "The Old Man And the Sea" which, ironically enough, is the name of the store/shop that Arthur Curry will be running in the show.

http://www.aquamantv.com/cosmo2.jpg

Even more ironically, it says that everyone says he looks like Matt Damon :lol:

I'm curious to see this new Aquaman TV series. Sounds cheezy, but if Smallvile pulled it off, I'm sure this can survive too :)

The January 20, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a brief article about Will Toale's Aquaman casting and notes that the pilot is scheduled to begin March 6. The issue is available at newsstands now and features a photo of Toale not found at Aquaman TV.

Here's what they said, including quotes from series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar:

What -- besides the ability to make orange spandex pop -- qualifies an actor to play Aquaman? Let's check in with Smallville co-creator Al Gough, who just signed newcomer Will Toale to star as the King of Atlantis in a pilot he's devloping for The WB. "Like all great WB stars, he comes from the Great White Way," Gough quips of the Streetcar Named Desire vet. "The fact that he's good-looking is just an accident." (Gough and co-exec producer Miles Millar also cite Toale's "warmth, strength, and charm.") But back to the spandex: Toale -- who despite what IMDb.com says, appears fully clothed in his sole film credit, Uptown Girls -- will play twentysomething Florida dive shop owner A.C. (that's Arthur Curry for the Aquaman-lore impaired.) The team starts shooting the pilot March 6, and Gough, who has demonstrated with Smallville that he's undaunted by Big Ideas, promises the following: "If I'm going to give you the pretentious literary influence, it's Henry IV."

New Aquaman news from Aquaman TV:

The American science fiction and genre magazine CFQ has a 2-page feature on the Aquaman pilot in their January/February 2006 issue.

Here are some highlights from Edward Gross's interview with executive producer Alfred Gough.

On what will separate this Aquaman from the version of the character we saw on Smallville: "I think the character in that episode was a little further along in his development than we want to do on the series," Gough told CFQ.

On what makes the young version of Aquaman, "A.C.," markedly different from Smallville's Clark Kent: "I have to say that if Clark Kent is Luke Skywalker, then Arthur Curry has got to be Han Solo."

"Batman is perceived as cool, whereas characters like Aquaman and Superman are perceived as kind of lame goody two-shoes. Certainly five years ago Superman was perceived as a boy scout. It's a challenge, but it's fun because there lies the ability to surprise people with what you do," Gough says.

About A.C.'s powers: "He can breathe underwater and swim faster than humans and has super strength underwater," Gough tells CFQ. "He can operate on land, but we're playing with the fact that if he's exposed to water, his powers kick in on land. This is being done for a couple of reasons. One, we want to tell stories on land and not just spend entire episodes on the water. Two, this gives you the ability to expand his crime-fighting abilities on land as well. What's also good about Aquaman is that his Kryptonite is that if he doesn't get water, he dehydrates, gets sick and weakens, which is much easier than looking for a Kryptonite rock." Later in the interview, Gough says "What we're thinking is that his exposure to water on land gives him limited super strength. It's kind of like Popeye with spinach, which is the easiest analogy."

Gough reveals that there are many story opportunities for an Aquaman series. "The stories themselves will deal with stopping polluters, there will also be Bermuda Triangle stories, there will be stories involving the military, there will be stories on land. In the real world we just had bandits robbing cruise ships - that's a good Aquaman story," he says. "In some ways, I think you'll have a lot more story opportunities than we initially did on Smallville, because there are so many areas that we will be able to pull from."

If you want to read the full article (which features many more quotes from Gough), the latest issue of CFQ is now available on newsstands - look for King Kong on the cover.

More casting!

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Rick Peters (Close To Home, SI, CSI: Miami, Smallville, and Veronica Mars) has been cast as Admiral Brigman, the man in charge of the facility where Rachel Starling (Denise Quinones) serves.

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Amber McDonald will be playing A.C.'s best friend, Eva, in the Aquaman pilot.

Some of the background of the character seems to have changed over the development of the series, but what we do know for sure is that Eva and A.C. have known each other for a while.

They should just call her Lana... :P

Gough knows nothing about Aquaman, that interview sounded condescending, and retarded in describing Arthurs' "strengths" and "weaknesses", just throw him out for a quick tan atop a skyscraper in July with no water bottle, and hes' dead after an hour, he makes sneezing on Captain Planet look more satisfactory.

Issue #175 of Wizard Magazine (out in stores now) has an amusing list of rejected titles for the Aquaman series (which I think is back to being called Mercy Reef)

Here is a list of some of them c/o Aquamantv.com:

Arthur's Creek
Buoy Meets World
Beverly Hills H2O
The O.C.ean
7th Fathom
Gill-more Girls
The Offish
As The Seaworld Turns
Surf & Turf
Days of our Tides
One Sea Hill
Desperate Fishwives
Two Guys, A Girl and a Sushi Place
Veronica Marsh
Jump The Shark

My fave is The O.C.ean :lol:

In a recent interview Lou Diamond Phillips (Tom Curry in Mercy Reef) talks about what he thinks of filming the pilot eppie:

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/29/11829.php

"Well, you know it's amazing because a number of people have said it to me..." Phillips stated when asked about the upcoming show. "The funny thing about the Aquaman project is that there's so much buzz about it already. Which is amazing, I mean you don't usually get that with a pilot, because they're sort of sight unseen. With the announcement that Al Gough and Miles Millar were doing this, basically spinning off of Smallville, but not really, it is it's own creature if you will, there was a lot of speculation and a lot of buzz. I can say just having been on the set, having been with Ving and Justin Hartley, who is amazing and I think is gonna blow up, we nailed it, man. It was a wonderful script and it was so much enthusiasm and so much heart, and I have to say an incredible amount of support. From the network, from the studio and I think everybody had high hopes for it."

He also said, "You never know in TV. I mean, you know, we could shoot ourselves in the foot or something awful could go wrong, who knows? But by all indications, I think we set the bar high with it and I think there is a definite awareness and a definite eagerness out in the viewing audience to see this show."

The official site of Homestead Air Force base has the first behind the scenes images of the Mercy Reef pilot ep. Several scenes were filmed there.

http://www.homestead.afrc.af.mil/pho...q=mercy%2Breef