That year. But also that image which is Alex Ross at his absolute best!!!
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I agree that one can say “hey based on the trailer I am not digging the upcoming film”. And I state that above in reply to Seamus.
But his original commentary goes well beyond that in my opinion.
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I heard, and this was many years ago, that Namor was one of the properties under development. Probably didn’t past a pitch stage. My comment at the time hearing this:
“Not even Namor’s grandma wants to see a Namor movie.”
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Same timeframe, but I was never really a fan of Aquaman…because my first love was Marine Boy!
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To be honest, the orange doesn’t bother me that much. My issue with blue is that it is usually dark blue, which isn’t all that distinguishable from black or dark grey. I like to watch these movies on the big screen using a projector, and projectors that can do a good job of distinguishing dark blue from black are expensive. On the other hand, something like Besson’s 5th Element, which is practically a love letter to the color orange, looks great on my inexpensive projector.
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Oh hell yes, same here. I loved all of that underwater stuff, and I really enjoyed the Japanese programming that made it to the US back then.
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I would love to see Namor as the bad guy in some one else’s movie. And after that he can smuggle plums in the team ups.
Which is basically all anyone ever wanted out of the guy.
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OMG!!! Seriously, the haters have already started their crap??? At least wait and see the movie first. Geez… It looks like the Star Wars fans found something to dog until the next episode comes out…
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One of those funny things that 99% of people never noticed or cared about until somebody did a big old rant about it and it went viral. Like that guy who got so mad about that thing where sometimes a song shifts up a key for the final chorus that he actually created a domain name to share his rage.
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Yea, there’s a bunch of stuff about that on the Namor wiki page -
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Exactly this! With Marvel close to getting the rights to the Fantastic Four stable of characters with the Fox merger, I can totally imagine Submariner being used as a villain-cum-hero in that franchise. Movie rights to the character are optioned with Universal, but maybe, as with the Hulk, Marvel can use the character as long as he’s not the headliner. Time will tell.
Well you have to admit it DOES look like Jar Jar’s underwater city in the trailer…
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LOLOL! 
Ok, you got me there!
If universal has never done anything with them they may have reverted to whatever block of characters he falls into. He predates the Fantastic 4 by 20 or 30 years. But he’s often considered a Fantastic 4 Villian. He predates the X Men by the even longer by he’s designated the first mutant (publication wise) by Marvel. So he also sort of falls into the X Men rights. But he’s technically his own thing, because he vastly predates any of Marvel’s other major characters. Only the original Human Torch and Captain America come close.
IIRC that may be one of the reasons we’ve never seen him used in any fashion. He might have been included in various ways in different groups of rights sold by Marvel to different people. Even if only by accident. If the Fox merger goes trough they knock 2 of the 3 things off the list, F4 and X-Men. So there’s only the direct rights to the character to recon with. And like I said they may have reverted to Marvel. But even Marvel isn’t sure. So the merger might mean they have all of Sub-Mariner on lock.
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seriously, i would watch Jason Momoa eat a sandwich for two hours. this certainly looks worthwhile to me.
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Just watched the trailers.
Shazam: Plunking down money to see it in the theater.
Aquaman: Netflix DVD list.
Also, They need to hurry up and get Squirrel Girl into the MCU continuity so we can get a believable Hero to finish off Thanos.
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Do you seriously go to superhero movies for the dialogue?
Interesting.
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The actor they cast as SG looks promising, I just hope the on-screen costume/makeup includes Doreen’s adorable overbite and ample cheeks.
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Same time period, and I loved the underwater stuff — but Salty the Sea Lion and of course Flipper. Though I couldn’t tell you the name of a single one of the kids those shows were supposedly about. Cut out the middlemen!
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Operating from his secret lair in the nuthouse?
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