![]() For all the plot points that Aquaman had to cover-from Arthur Curry’s origin story, his complicated family drama, his romance with Mera, and even an inter-Atlantean royal feud with half-brother Orm/Ocean Master-the film’s presence of Mateen’s pirate-turned-supervillain, David Kane, seemed like a planted side story seed destined to sprout a dedicated storyline-either in the obvious sequel or one of the various spinoff movie projects being developed by Warner before the pandemic. While we now have clarity about the secret Black Manta project, which was nixed earlier this year, it still leaves us with questions-mind you, not about the obvious feasibility of a Aquaman Black Manta spinoff, but why such a proposition needed a bizarre cover story in the first place. 7 #1 for DC Comics’ New 52 relaunch-have frightening physical attributes that are the result of the ancient catastrophe known as the Great Fall, which, as Willem Dafoe’s Vulko explains in Aquaman, forced the formerly-surface-dwelling society of Atlantis to live and adapt to life underwater, after which the population separated and evolved in (radically) various ways due to their chosen new environments. The Trench-created by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis in in Aquaman Vol. The ersatz project was being touted as “horror-tinged.” This would have been doubly-appropriate for the horror-minded wheelhouse of Wan and the project’s prospective characters, since the Trench’s inhabitants are essentially humanoid hybrids of piranha, and terrifyingly swim in schools massive enough to intimidate any Atlantean army. Specifically, James Wan’s comments debunk a February 2019 report from THR claiming that The Trench was in development over at Warner, which had purportedly tapped newcomer screenwriters Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald for the script, with director Wan and Peter Safran set to produce. “he canceled Trench spin-off movie was really going to be a secret Black Manta movie.” “I’ll let you in on a secret,” says Wan, prefacing a major disclosure in response to a fan. Yet, according to Wan, The Trench was really just a cover for a Black Manta villain spinoff movie. That bit of debunking recently came straight from director James Wan in seemingly casual fashion on his Instagram when discussing Mateen’s Black Manta, who’s set to continue his vendetta against Jason Momoa’s eponymous Atlantean king in 2022-scheduled sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, said spinoff was apparently a ruse designed to hide the project’s real focus: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s film villain, Black Manta.Īs it turns out, the trade-touted existence of Aquaman spinoff project The Trench, which was widely taken as gospel for nearly three years, never actually existed-at least not in the way it was reported. ![]() The studio’s expected knee-jerk reaction to this success-besides a green-light for a sequel-was to develop a spinoff, which led to an early-2019 report about a project centered on the monstrous denizens of dark-dwelling sea kingdom the Trench. It’s possible that Black Manta was collecting these excerpts in order to track the fabled Aquaman’s movements across the oceans.While it might be a tad dramatic to call the success of 2018’s Aquaman a surprise, the movie did overcome a stigma from the initial failure of 2017’s Justice League to become the highest-grossing entry in the DC Extended Universe with nearly $1.5 billion worldwide. Previously released footage showed newspaper clippings of Arthur’s heroic exploits tacked to a wall. Despite his training, the villain is easily bested in combat by the Atlantean prince. At the start of their battle, Black Manta tells Jason Momoa’s Arthur that he’s “waited a long time for this.” However, Arthur is none the wiser to his identity. The clip premiered on an episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden earlier this week. You can check out the new footage via below. ![]() Armed with an assault rifle and twin blades, the intensity of his fight against the title character is compounded by the vessel’s close quarters. A new clip from next week’s film shows Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta making his debut on a submarine. Because of this, it’s easy to forget that another one of Aquaman’s deadliest enemies is in the movie as well. So much of Aquaman’s marketing campaign focuses on the conflict between Arthur Curry and Orm over Atlantis’ throne. ![]()
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