“It was a really accurate depiction of what an actor goes through when they take on a tentpole franchise,” Jerry Ferrara says. “I’m not a big comic book or superhero person, but it just seemed very silly.” But two words would change the minds of everyone involved: James Cameron. “I didn’t see any way you could make that movie,” Ellin told me in 2018. With no director attached and not wanting to be locked into the “same role for the rest of my life,” Vince had no interest-a move that, three years before the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, made a lot of sense. “It’s Spider-Man underwater-boom,” Vince’s boisterous agent Ari (Jeremy Piven) declares in his first pitch of Aquaman, citing the recent success of Tobey Maguire’s webslinger. Or at least that’s what happened on seasons 2 and 3 of HBO’s seminal bro-comedy series Entourage.Īfter a successful first season that seized on a culture’s obsession with celebrity and entertainment and featured cameos from the likes of Jessica Alba and Larry David, creator Doug Ellin was looking for both the show and its protagonist, Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), to jump to the next level. Three years before James Cameron debuted Avatar and more than a decade before Jason Momoa’s Aquaman swam to over $1 billion, Cameron teamed with an up-and-coming movie star for his own Aquaman and set the record for highest-grossing opening weekend. “What a fucking stupid movie-the only way it could be good is if James Cameron directed it.”Īnd with that thought, film history was born.
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