James Wan Producing Aquaman Miniseries For HBO Max

James Wan’s Aquaman took many by surprise when it stormed the box office in December 2018, earning over $1.1bn globally to become the highest-grossing DC Comics adaptation ever made. It marked an impressive solo debut for a character that made their big-screen bow by appearing in a GIF in Batman v Superman, and as soon as the numbers came in the execs at Warner Bros. must have had dollar signs in their eyes.

With the sequel not set to hit theaters until December 2022, fans will have to wait a while before they see Jason Momoa in the flesh as Arthur Curry, but along with horror-tinged spinoff The Trench, the Aquaman franchise is only set to grow bigger with the news that Wan is developing and producing an animated series exclusively for HBO Max.

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Titled Aquaman: King of Atlantis, the series will span three episodes and follow directly on from the conclusion of the movie, with Arthur now sitting on the throne of the underwater kingdom. While it certainly sounds as though it will be canon alongside the superhero’s DCEU adventures, the official synopsis doesn’t reveal much in the way of plot specifics.

“Between dealing with unscrupulous surface-dwellers, elder evils from beyond time and his own half-brother who wants to overthrow him, Aquaman is going to have to rise to the challenge and prove to his subjects, and to himself, that he’s the right man for the trident.”

There’s no news on whether Jason Momoa is part of the project, but it seems incredibly likely given his obvious love of playing the character, as well as his heavy involvement on the creative side of things. In fact, it would be surprising if the animated show didn’t feature at least a few actors reprising their roles, given how heavily Warner Bros. are investing in HBO Max, Snyder Cut or not. Either way, it will serve to keep Arthur Curry fresh in the minds of fans and subscribers until the standalone Aquaman sequel eventually gets released.

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Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle Is Getting Destroyed By Critics

With his time playing Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially over, Robert Downey Jr. is now free from the shackles of multi-picture contracts, and able to feature in anything he wants. As one of the biggest stars in the industry, the 54 year-old will no doubt be fielding plenty of offers, and will have the opportunity to pick and choose between his projects. Unfortunately, though, his first post-MCU outing looks to be a huge misstep.

There are some movies that just have ‘box office bomb’ written all over them, and Dolittle definitely fits the criteria. At no point has there been anything approaching positive buzz surrounding it, which isn’t an encouraging sign for an effects-heavy blockbuster with a budget rumored to be $175 million. Things weren’t helped by reports of extremely negative reactions to test screenings, either, which then led to extensive rewrites and reshoots, resulting in the original release date of May 2019 being pushed back to this upcoming weekend.

Downey Jr. admitted that he decided to make Dolittle after discussing it with his wife, who acts as producer under the duo’s Team Downey banner, so that they could work together on a movie that they could share with their children. Hopefully the kids like it, too, because based on the early reviews, not a lot of people do.

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In fact, at the time of writing, Dolittle sits at an awful 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, and those numbers seem very unlikely to increase over the coming days, and with the top end of projections indicating that the movie stands to make $25 million tops at the domestic box office this weekend, it looks like we have 2020’s first dud on our hands.

The wannabe fantasy epic is being absolutely savaged by critics right now, many of whom are struggling to find any redeeming qualities whatsoever, with /Film describing it as “an unwatchable circus,” New York Magazine admitting that “I wasn’t expecting Dolittle to be good, exactly, but I wasn’t expecting to be quite this bad,” and Richard Roeper summing it up with a simple “Please make it stop.”

Not only does Dolittle mark Downey Jr.’s first post-Iron Man gig, but also the first time he’s appeared in any movie outside of the MCU since 2014. Given the scathing reviews coming his way though, hopefully the actor decides on something a lot better for his next performance.

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Daniel Radcliffe Has Guns Bolted To His Hands In Guns Akimbo Trailer

Guns Akimbo is an action comedy from the creative bosom of Jason Lei Howden, due to make its stateside debut on February 28th. It stars Daniel Radcliffe as Miles Harris, whose “mundane existence is turned upside-down when he finds himself enrolled on a dark net website that forces complete strangers to fight in a city-wide game of death so that their gladiatorial battles can be live-streamed worldwide to a fanatical audience.” Something tells me the Wikipedian who wrote that synopsis didn’t pull it from an official press release (though if it was official, magnificent job boyo).

The trail of thought that Radcliffe springs to mind for me seems terribly unfair, but I have a paucity of time and a paucity of alternative conversational topics. If you hadn’t already gathered, you are indeed about to read the meaningless word-babble of a simpleton, so strap in.

The thought in question concerns legacies. Can’t fight them, can’t escape them. Would we want to be defined by one thing when our time has come to pass? Or would we want our names to enkindle memories of the many-faceted lives we left? Truth be told, few are afforded such worthy epitaphs. And, truth be told, most of us aren’t going to be remembered by more than those closest to us.

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Obviously, this was all triggered by Harry Potter.  On the one hand, it’s a role Radcliffe will always be defined by; it’s his, by some distance, most famous performance, and potentially always will be. On the other, Daniel will have a long, artistically prosperous career beyond the sphere of the Potterverse. More important than either of those things though, I think, is the legacy he’ll share with all of us, famous, infamous, not famous. Family and friends, be good to them, they’re the ones that’ll really remember you.

That leaves one problem to solve. Where am I supposed to get Guns Akimbo back into all of that? I’ll leave it hanging like this. Terrible writing, I know

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