{"id":40415,"date":"2017-05-03T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T23:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40415"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:12:11","slug":"aquaman-film-begins-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/03\/aquaman-film-begins-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"AQUAMAN Film Begins Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On the HBO TV show Entourage<\/strong>, an Aquaman <\/strong>film became a running joke. Well, it’s no joke now, as production began on the film yesterday.<\/p>\n

Director James Wan posted the following to Twitter:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/creepypuppet\/status\/859608259300278272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comingsoon.net%2Fmovies%2Fnews%2F844033-director-james-wan-tweets-the-first-pic-from-the-aquaman-set<\/p>\n

So, yes, ladies an gentlemen, if you live in Australia and the film “Ahab<\/strong>” is shooting near you, it’s really Aquaman<\/strong>. Kind of defeats the purpose of name the film something else if you are going to reveal the fake name to the world, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Rumors of\u00a0a possible Aquaman<\/strong> film started as far back as 2001, when producer Bill Gerber shot down a rumor that Kiefer Sutherland and Monica Potter would be starring in an Aquaman <\/strong>film<\/a>. Gerber announced that there was a film in the works, but it was nowhere near the casting stage.<\/p>\n

The project then apparently moved on to Sunrise Entertainment in 2004 <\/a>with novice writer Ben Grant\u00a0writing the screenplay and Dwayne Johnson rumored to star, but nothing came of that either.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the character got more attention from television. The\u00a0character appeared on\u00a0Smallville\u00a0<\/strong>in 2005, which led to a quasi-spin-off pilot being made in 2006. The pilot wasn’t picked up.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, Aquaman <\/strong>became a major plot point for the second and third seasons of Entourage<\/strong>. Vince is cast as Aquaman in a big budget film directed by James Cameron. The fake film becomes the\u00a0film with the highest weekend grosses, a fiction that Warners certainly hopes becomes a reality.<\/p>\n

The current film version started its development in 2013<\/a>. In August of 2014,\u00a0news of Warners commissioning two scripts <\/a>by\u00a0Gangster Squad<\/strong>\u2018s Will Beall and 300: Rise of an Empire<\/strong>\u2018s Kurt Johnstad that would be put in competition with one\u00a0another. In April of 2015, the number of scripts increased to\u00a0five<\/a>, with Jeff Nichols being added to the list of writers.<\/p>\n

It appeared that Johnstad’s script had won, as it was his name that was mentioned when Warners announced that James Wan had signed on as director in June of 2015<\/a>. \u00a0But just five months later, David Leslie Johnson<\/a> was announced as a new scribe for the film.\u00a0The screenwriter carousel came to a stop in July in 2016 when\u00a0news broke of all story development\u00a0being scrapped and Will Beall coming back <\/a>to\u00a0construct a new script from an outline by Geoff Johns.<\/p>\n

It is also worth mentioning that the film’s release date moved from July 27, 2018 to October 5, 2018 to its current release date of December 21, 2018. The fact that production has begun means that, barring any unforeseen problems, the film will reach that date.<\/p>\n

The film stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Defoe, Patrick Wilson and Nicole Kidman.<\/p>\n

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The start of filming on AQUAMAN marks a tumultuous journey to the big screen for the character. <\/div>\n

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