AQUAMAN 2006 TV PILOT MOVIE
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Action and adventure television programs.Superman (Fictitious character) - Drama.Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O'Toole, John Schneider, John Glover.Smallville is based on DC comics characters developed for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The Aquaman pilot was expected to debut in the fall schedule of 2006, but following the merger of the WB and UPN, the resulting CW Network opted not to buy the series.ISBN :Ģ videodiscs ( 335 min.) : sound, color 4 3/4 in. :īurbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2017. Smallville's 100th episode : making of a milestone - Secret origin : the American story of DC Comics.

AQUAMAN 2006 TV PILOT SERIES

A retrospective look at the series with season featurettes - A decade of Comic-con - PaleyFest 2004 event - Aquaman pilot - The adventures of Superboy - disc 2. Ritchson returned in later seasons where he joined the Justice League of that universe.Disc 1. Which worked out to the show's advantage, I think, storywise, as it gave Clark a foil a Batman that isn't Batman. Alan Ritchson who played Arthur Curry in the episode did not portray him in the pilot, which is odd considering Gough expressed interest in a crossover event at some point with Smallville, but left Hartley able to join the cast of Smallville as Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow.

The thing is though, this would have affected so much of the Smallville mythology had the show taken off. The pilot was later released on iTunes and on DVD packaged along with seasons of Smallville. I guess the irony is that, the 'Aqua' episode of Smallville was never really intended to be the diving board for an Aquaman series, it just picked up steam and went from there. When the Mercy Reef pilot finally went into production, however, the network decided to recast the role with Hartley. So where did that leave Aquaman? Well, pretty much like a mounted swordfish on your grandfather's wall.Īquaman was scheduled to be released in the Fall 2006, but with the merging of the WB and UPN, creating the CW Network, the new entity chose not to pick it up. Back in the mid-2000s, The WB started to develop an Aquaman television series entitled Mercy Reef following a ratings smash in the form of Arthur Curry (played by Ritchson) guest starring on a Season 5 episode of Smallville.

Whedon's Wonder Woman never saw the light of day aside from a teaser poster made by legendary comic artist Adam Hughes. Less than a month after Aqua debuted, in November 2005, The WB signed off on a pilot, tentatively titled Mercy Reef, and production was slated to start in early 2006. Superman Returns provided pretty okay box office numbers, but nowhere near what the studio had hoped for and combined with the mixed reviews, made WB backtrack and end up with a reboot. Smallville went on for five more seasons, Batman Begins launched the Nolanverse and became one of the top movies of that year, and raised a whole slew of Hollywood buzz with the casting of Heath Ledger as the Joker in July. The This Is Us actor starred as Arthur Curry/ Aquaman in the unsold 2006 pilot Aquaman, which was developed by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar for the now-defunct WB network. It seemed DC was prime to flank the small and silver screen for the next few years, but we all know how that worked out.

AQUAMAN 2006 TV PILOT MOVIE

Superman was about to set flight yet again with Superman Returns, and Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie had been greenlit and ready to go (two out of three ain't bad, right?). Now remember, around this time Batman just had a mighty comeback with Batman Begins. Even DC Entertainment President David Janollari then said that Aquaman is 'one of the coolest characters in the DC Comics library.' So everyone was ready to dive into the new project and the pilot was made for around $7 Million and things were looking up for ol' A.C. ' was the first idea where we really thought we had a franchise where we could see 100 episodes,' Millar said when talking about the greenlit project at the time. Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar brought the concept up after the ratings for the Aquaman-centric episode of Smallville (simply called 'Aqua') had the highest rating of the season. Before Aquaman makes his splash into the DC Cinematic Universe, there was an idea to bring him to the small screen using the Smallville formula with an Aquaman TV series. Sure, Momoa's Arthur/Orin looks spectacular and portrays him as King Bad Ass, but remember the Aquaman pilot, aka Mercy Reef, with Justin Hartley, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Ving Rhames? See the trailer below. The Aquaman bandwagon is coming around and it seems like it's going to get fuller by the time Dawn of Justice finally makes it to theaters, but it wasn't always so. With the first look of Jason Momoa's Aquaman recently surfacing (there's going to be a lot of fish,water, nautical puns in this, so just enjoy), Aquaman seems to be in the middle of both a resurgence and being reintroduced to fans at the same time.

Aquaman 2006 tv pilot