In addition to sweeping up six Academy Awards, Mad Max: Fury Road was widely praised for its glorious practical effects. Now, the same team behind those effects will oversee the stunts for Aquaman when it begins filming on Australia’s Gold Coast in 2017. Keir Beck, the stunt coordinator for Fury Road, will also serve as stunt coordinator for Aquaman.
9News Australia briefly interviewed Beck about the preparation for Aquaman. In addition to citing “general stunts skills, [and] fighting,” as part of his team’s prep, Beck also said, “You know, if there is water sequences, obviously being capable and competent in water [will be useful].” I’m hoping this means we’ll get to see some badass sea stunts. After watching what Beck and his team did with all the explosions and leaps over Fury Road‘s dramatic desert landscape, I want to see what they’ll cook up with a raging ocean backdrop.
However, while this news bodes well for Aquaman‘s stunts, we’re still a little in-the-dark about the movie’s tone. In previous interviews, director James Wan said that Aquaman would have an action-adventure feel. “The spirit that I’m going for is like a classic sort of swashbuckling action adventure, sort of high seas adventure story,” he said. “It’s ultimately a quest story in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Romancing the Stone.”
However, in another interview, Wan also described Aquaman as “kind of the Wolverine in some respect. He’s the outsider who gets pulled into this world and he kind of doesn’t want to belong and he was doing his own thing. And he prided freedom above everything else. That kind of plays nicely into who his character is. He’s like a reluctant superhero, right? He’s the reluctant king, basically, or would-be king.”
So will Jason Momoa play Aquaman as an angry, grim outsider or a charismatic, rules-breaking swashbuckler? Personally, I’d love to see Momoa put that swagger to more lighthearted use, but I’ll have to wait and see when Aquaman hits theaters on October 5, 2018.
(via ScreenCrush and 9News, image via screengrab and Warner Brothers)
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