If you’ve been reading The Movie Blog for any period of time, you probably know that I love my comic book movies (except Catwoman). Heck, I even enjoyed The Punisher and Daredevil (GASP!). So, you’d think I’d be excited to hear the rumblings that an Aquaman project is getting itself off the ground. However, you’d be thinking wrong.
In the comics, Aquaman is actually a fairly interesting character (especially after he lost his hand and got an attitude shift), but I just don’t think he would play well on the screen. The remoteness of his character (read into that whatever you want) just seems to limit the possibilities of a film far too much. Unlike the X-Men or Spider-man or Hulk (which can all take place in our regular real world), Aquaman would be far too limited in it’s options for a setting. I fear such a film would ultimately just end up being Water World 2 starring Kevin Costner as Aquaman with a bad British accent.
Word is, Producer Alan Riche is spearheading this. That’s not a bad thing, since he also did the fairly respectable Starsky & Hutch, The Family Man and Empire Records… but he also did some awful stinkers like Tomcats and the horrible Mouse Hunt.
One of the other rumors floating around is that they may take a silly comedy approach to Aquaman. As much as I hate that idea, it would probably be the only way to make such a project work. Make it more like Mystery Men than X-Men. Alan Riche’s past movies seem to make it more believable that they’d take a comedic approach to the film. Oh well… I guess we’ll have to wait and sea. (Get it… I said wait and SEA instead of wait and SEE! Oh shut up.)
