{"id":40487,"date":"2017-05-18T18:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40487"},"modified":"2017-05-18T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:23:16","slug":"james-wan-mera-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/18\/james-wan-mera-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wan Brings A More Colorful Mera For AQUAMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-comic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-comic-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-comic.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-comic-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has become fairly obvious that things are in a state of flux within Warner Brothers&#8217; DC Comics Expanded Universe film franchise. <strong>The Flash<\/strong> has been foundering for six months now, looking for a new director. Questions abound as to when their proposed <strong>Batman<\/strong> film will get in front of cameras. And the studio has announced a number of other installments &#8211; from a Suicide Squad sequel to a Batgirl film to the Harley Quinn-led female villains movie <strong>Gotham City Sirens<\/strong> &#8211; without indicating a clear idea as to when any of them may actually get on the screen. Rumors have been circulating about the amount and severity of alleged reshoots for next November&#8217;s <strong>Justice League<\/strong>, though I tend to suspect that they are overstating the situation somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side though, early, pre-review embargo buzz on next month&#8217;s <strong>Wonder Woman<\/strong> seems to be strong. And there are other rumors that persist that with DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns being appointed to co-run the franchise with Jon Berg, there has been a loosening up freedoms for filmmakers working on their various projects. If so, we received confirmation of that with a tweet from Aquaman director James Wan today.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the upcoming comic book adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/creepypuppet\/status\/865296905244295172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">tweeted out<\/a> this picture of Amber Heard, who will be playing love interest Mera to Jason Momoa&#8217;s titular underwater superhero.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-aquaman-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-aquaman-big-678x859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"859\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-aquaman-big-678x859.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-aquaman-big-268x339.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mera-aquaman-big.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that the picture from Wan showcases an appearance for the character than what we know she&#8217;ll be looking like when she shows up in Justice League later this year. (See picture below.) Yes, that&#8217;s right. She has a lot more color to her look than the washed out blue-gray patina that Justice League director Zack Snyder has been painting all of his DCEU films with. Granted, this is a photo directly from the set and it is possible that somewhere along the post-production lie the film could get color corrected down to muted palette we&#8217;ve come to expect from these films. On the other hand, this could be a sign that Warner Brothers are indeed letting its directors bring more of their own visual flair to the individual films that they are working on.<\/p>\n<p>And that is a a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aquaman<\/strong> also stars Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Patrick Wilson and Nicole Kidman. It opens December 21, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman-678x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman-678x678.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman-339x339.jpg 339w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mera-in-Aquaman.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The upcoming superhero film looks to be enriching the color palette of the DC Comice Expanded Universe<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/18\/james-wan-mera-aquaman\/\" title=\"James Wan Brings A More Colorful Mera For AQUAMAN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6232,1846,6601],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-amber-heard","9":"tag-aquaman","10":"tag-james-wan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40487"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}