We certainly have every intention that Manta plays a very large role in the DC universe. “There is a connection between Orm and Manta that will be revealed that that helps make him a more integral part of the story. “If Orm is the primary antagonist, then Manta is certainly is a very strong secondary antagonist,” Safran says. But this won’t be some one-off appearance by the villain, DC has plenty more plans for him in the future. Black Manta will be featured in the film, but we were told to expect him to be the “B-Story” of the film, as Aquaman’s relationship with his half-brother Orm will be the main narrative line in the film. That in mind, they’re going to use him sparingly. The filmmakers know how awesome he is, they know how cool he looks, and they know the fan anticipation on seeing this big bad come to the big screen will be through the roof. I’m going to take my knife, and I would drive it through you, while telling you that the next thing that I’m going to do is to go murder your family also.’ So, I said, Oh, this guy is… he’s not like the other children.’īlack Manta is the secret weapon for Aquaman. And he was like, ‘You know, I don’t have time for that. He murdered someone, and in my experience in comics they’re blowing people up to smithereens, or they’ll use their powers and they’ll shoot you off to the moon and you’ll explode. :I was reading the comic, The Others, and he drove a blade through someone. To get into the character, Abdul-Mateen took to the source material to find the man he would become on set and one moment in particular is the one that illuminated the fundamentals of Black Manta to him. Everything comes crashing down around him after that chance encounter with Aquaman and Manta makes it his mission for the Atlantean to pay. He’s sailing the seas with his father, riding on high and then the title hero crashes their pirate party and creates an enemy for life. When Aquaman begins, Black Manta is at a good place in his life. It’s made to look good, it’s made to function for me, up to a certain degree, but other than that, the helmet just looks badass. “You got a whole 20% vision or something like that. “You can’t see! You just can’t see,” Abdul-Mateen II says with a laugh. Speaking of that giant head with those big red glowing eyes, how does he even see out of them? The answer is simple, you don’t. So I have to tweak the outfit slightly to give him the power that he needs to take on to fight Aquaman, but in terms of what he looks like, he’s very much in the same spirit.” I’m going to take what’s best about the design, and kind of bring my sensibility to it, and ultimately he’s a human character, and he has to go up against someone like Arthur/Aquaman, who is a superhero. But there’s just something kind of slightly off, right? The big giant head, these big two red glowing eyes. “I see this guy, and I think what we all love about him is he’s kind of scary and he’s really badass to look at it. “I think like most fans I love the really sort of strange design of Black Manta,” Director James Wan tells us. “The e-mail came back all caps, all exclamation marks and he’s like, ‘Holy sh*t, the ribs glow!’ He’s just a great character and we’re having a lot of fun with him and what he does and his evolution throughout the movie.” Safran even had to take a photo to send to Geoff Johns. The first day that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was on set ended up being picture day because the costume turned out so great and looked so good. “But then, just designing the actual look of Manta, like taking it from the comic book to the real life….that was just something we spent countless hours on to make incredibly satisfying.” “James (Wan, the director) loved Manta from the comic books,” Safran says later. And, I put on that suit, and everything’s just coming full circle.” “We have our ideas about what the character’s going to be, so I bring all of that stuff to it but then you put that thing on, and you see yourself in the mirror, and all of a sudden, I’m 10 feet taller in that thing and I feel like I could bust through a wall! I talked about wanting to run through walls, and just break shit in my meeting with Peter (Safran, the producer), when I auditioned for the job. “Man, that thing is just badass,” Abdul-Mateen tells us on the Australian set of the film. That’s right, the gigantic helmet with the huge red eyes that you know are coming to a theater near you, and I can tell you from having seen the costume my self, it looks incredible. In the upcoming Aquaman movie, the villain makes his live-action big screen debut with actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stepping into the full get up. Batman has The Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor, and Aquaman has Black Manta. Even as long as people have been making fun of Aquaman for pre-conceived (and patently wrong) faults with his superpowers, there’s always been another thing about him people always remember: his nemesis.
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