{"id":54658,"date":"2014-01-01T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=54658"},"modified":"2014-01-18T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:06:03","slug":"man-of-steel-2-casts-the-rock-as-aquaman-doomsday-or-lobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/man-of-steel-2-casts-the-rock-as-aquaman-doomsday-or-lobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Of Steel 2 casts the Rock as Aquaman or Doomsday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aquaman<\/a>
Aquaman is now unbelievably bad-ass in DC’s New 52<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Fast & Furious<\/strong><\/em> star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson revealed on Twitter that he’s entered talks with Warner Bros for a role in a DC Comics-related movie – possibly Zack Snyder’s Batman Vs Superman<\/strong><\/em>-smackdown, Man Of Steel 2<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An obvious bit of casting would be for Kryptonian-crippling bone-faced beefcake Doomsday<\/a>, Johnson certainly has the acting chops<\/del> physique for that, but perhaps the “cool bad assery” is in fact another member of the Justice League to go with the recently cast Wonder Woman<\/a> and rumoured Green Lantern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe Johnson will be playing Aquaman, who has undergone a more recent transformation into a brutal warrior king.<\/p>\n

While the wrestler-turned-actor doesn’t fit the blonde-haired, blue-eyed look of the King of Atlantis, the character’s not so iconic that this particularly matters from a branding point of view.<\/p>\n

There was a time when Johnson was linked to a Lobo<\/strong> <\/em>movie<\/a>, based on the anti-hero alien bounty hunter of the same name, so perhaps this is now back on the cards? After all, with Sinister Six<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and Big Hero 6<\/em><\/strong><\/a> movies all in development, there’s definitely more obscure characters making the journey to the big screen…<\/p>\n

Read our review of Man Of Steel<\/em> here<\/a> and our defence of Ben Affleck’s casting here<\/a> and of Gal Gadot’s casting here<\/a>. Man Of Steel<\/em> is out now, get it on Blu-ray for £18.50<\/a>, DVD for £12.75<\/a> or 3D Blu-ray for £20.50<\/a> from Amazon<\/a>.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aquaman, Lobo and Doomsday rumours follow Dwayne Johnson talks with Warner Bros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":54660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3553,3350],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Aquaman-Dwayne-Johnson-Man-Of-Steel-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}