With production set to begin on James Wan's
Aquaman this May, star Jason Momoa has been particularly outspoken with his excitement to make the first DCEU installment post-
Justice League. In an interview with Digital Trends, Momoa praised the script for the film and the unique nature of the underwater setting, along with the action-adventure films it draws some influence from.
“I read the (Aquaman) script and let me just put it this way, I’ve never seen a movie that’s anything like this. It’s going to be a world that you’ve never seen before, which is really cool. We went to space, we traveled all over different worlds, but we never went underwater. So it’s just a really cool spin on what’s below and it uses a lot of great movies that I already love — whether that be Raiders of the Lost Ark to Star Wars to Lord of the Rings to Romancing the Stone. It has a lot of really cool adventure, it’s funny and heroic, and there’s a lot of different characters and a lot of different worlds that we get to go to. So I’ve never really seen anything like it.”
Momoa also had praise for his
Justice League director Zack Snyder (who he recently
called a genius), whom he credits for coming up with Aquaman's look and story on the big screen.
"Zack Snyder is a huge fan of Game of Thrones and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office and we talked about playing Aquaman. He had a really cool vision for what he wanted to do and how he wanted me to look. It’s kind of Zack’s baby ... but the cool thing with Aquaman is how it taps into the native culture and that’s something that we’re only taught a little about, so there’s a lot of interesting things. I really think it’s the right time. It’s really cool. Zack is one of those perspectives on it and DC is really getting behind it. It was a ballsy step. They did it, and I’m extremely happy with the world they’ve created. It’s an honor to be part of this."
Aquaman will swim into theatres on
October 5, 2018.
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