Had totally forgotten that this was supposed to exist until this trailer popped up today on Dark Horizons.
“Empires of The Deep” is being referred to as the biggest U.S./Chinese co-production ever at a $100 Million budget, but supposedly the “Chinese” side of that is almost-entirely from a single China-based Real Estate billionaire. I like how nobody even bats an eye anymore at the idea of a supposedly-“communist” country having billionaires, incidentally…
The pitch? It’s “Avatar” meets “The Little Mermaid,” with a human hero traveling to an underwater kingdom and getting swept up into an epic war between rival fish-person nations. Naturally, it’s in 3D (something you need to understand about the 3D “thing” right now: Chinese audiences are madly in love with 3D – thats one of the biggest reasons they keep doing it.) The early buzz is that it’s a “Dragon Wars”-level fiasco in every way except the effects (scale wise, at least), design and action stuff:
So… probably a camp classic waiting to happen. Still, I can’t look at the “bigger” parts of this and wonder why I seem to be the only person who can totally see how “Aquaman” could actually work…
MOVIEBOB CENTRAL 
Well, thats insane.
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Why does Finding Nemo look 1000 times more realistic?!
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@Anonymous
No secondary motion…Is definitely part of it.
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On the whole “communist billionaires” angle, China is not a communist country, compared to, say, the old Soviet Union. China's position on the issue has been their economic policy is: “market socialism with Chinese characteristics.” what does that mean? it means whatever China wants it to mean.
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That movie looks terrible, and yet I can't help but love the idea of people with fins, giant crabs as mounts, using bigass sea monsters as warships, and damn if a giant anglerfish monster isn't suitably terrifying (seriously, anglerfish are horrifying). It makes me pine for a movie with the same premise, but actually good.
Though who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and this won't be shit? I doubt it though.
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john carter of the deep?
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@J
Aw damn, you stole my joke! I was going to say something about “John Carter of Atlantis”.
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nah you are giving them too much creditm they are ripping off the plot of one piece fishman island arc,
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You're not the only one. Next to Wonder Woman & Justice League, Aquaman in the one superhero movie yet to get made that I can see most vividly in my head. I can picture the fairly tale atmosphere of Act 1 as Queen Atlanna rises from the waves in the moonlight, to the entranced wonder of the lonely old lighthouse keeper. I can see young Arthur Curry discovering his heritage, his mother teaching him Atlantean culture. I can see him pick up a old fishing spearing in his father's basement, and with it learning the art of trident fighting. I see his rivalry with Orm, his romance with Mera, and the looming mysterious menace of Black Manta. I can see the damn thing as if I'd actually made it. WHY DOESN'T IT EXIST?!
Yeah okay, I officially have too much time on my hands.
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China's pretty much been Communist in name only for about 3 decades, at least from a purely economic viewpoint. Deng Xiaoping's market reforms would have almost certainly caused Mao to turn over in his grave.
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An Aquaman movie will never happen(and personally, I'm fine with that). You know it and I know it. WE ALL KNOW IT. Now the Submariner having a movie is a much more real(in fact, likely) prospect. I can see it in Marvel's Phase 3 along with Black Panther and Dr. Strange.
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…they should rebrand this as Sea Monkies: The Movie.
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