When the new animated Earth-2 film hits the shelves in February, it'll have the first original DC superhero short in decades.
According to comicsworthreading.com: A new animated short! DC Showcase: The Spectre is written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), with a voice cast that includes Gary Cole and Alyssa Milano. DC Showcase is described as a series, so perhaps this is a way for fans to see animated versions of characters not quite ready for feature-length films and for the studio to try out new possibilities.
The blu-ray version will also of the failed Aquaman pilot that was to follow the success of Smallville PLUS the original Wonder Woman TV pilot from the 70s.
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SPOILER ALERTS....I watched the Aquaman tv pilot last night. I thought that it was good. On looking up the tv pilot for this show I found very little talk on this forum about it. Was this a pilot that never aired on tv? The actor that played Arrow on Smallville is Aquaman! (SorryI forgot his name!) My wife said that she liked this pilot more than the WW tv pilot....which is saying a lot for her! Anyway they made Aquaman mysterious...Aquaman does not know his origin! Also the mysteries of the bermuda triangle are incorporated into this film. I mean various characters show up that look young but upon further evidence...one has a Pic from 1905 and another one from 1936. These characters do not know or remember their past! A beautiful siren (this is the same actress that played WW in the tv pilot) shows up that attacks and tries to kill Aquaman. This show ends with Aquaman wanting to go to Atlantis to answer all of his questions about himself and his mother who disappeared in the bermuda triangle 10 years before! I have no idea why this pilot was not picked up by the WB....it has a good solid foundation story...it left a lot of unanswered questions that most likely would have been answered in an ongoing series! Again this pilot may have been too violent for its intended audience! I mean Aquaman graphically kills the siren and the siren kills several people including Aquaman's girlfriend. Just my take! ,,,....Has anyone else seen this pilot?
I'd heard that the WB/CW (which was it at the time?) was going to go ahead with an Aquaman/Mercy Reef series, until the show Seventh Heaven was inexplicably renewed at the last minute, so there was no time slot left for Aquaman. I have no idea how true that is, but I guess stranger things have happened.
....I had to look this up! I had no idea that 7th Heaven was still on in 2006! Like stated above due to high ratings on what was supposed to be the final show....the WB renewed it for one more season!
I have to wonder, if the Aquaman series had gone ahead, while it might have crossed over with Smallville in the same way that Arrow & Flash have, would we ever have seen Green Arrow as a mostly regular on Smallville? And would the "Arrow" TV show we have now even have been considered if not for the character's exposure there? I've long suspected that Justin Hartley was cast as Green Arrow as a sort of consolation prize for the Aquaman series being shelved like it was, so is it possible that, if Seventh Heaven had stayed cancelled, we might not have the elaborate DC/CD universe we now have?
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SPOILER ALERTS....I watched the Aquaman tv pilot last night. I thought that it was good. On looking up the tv pilot for this show I found very little talk on this forum about it. Was this a pilot that never aired on tv? The actor that played Arrow on Smallville is Aquaman! (SorryI forgot his name!) My wife said that she liked this pilot more than the WW tv pilot....which is saying a lot for her! Anyway they made Aquaman mysterious...Aquaman does not know his origin! Also the mysteries of the bermuda triangle are incorporated into this film. I mean various characters show up that look young but upon further evidence...one has a Pic from 1905 and another one from 1936. These characters do not know or remember their past! A beautiful siren (this is the same actress that played WW in the tv pilot) shows up that attacks and tries to kill Aquaman. This show ends with Aquaman wanting to go to Atlantis to answer all of his questions about himself and his mother who disappeared in the bermuda triangle 10 years before! I have no idea why this pilot was not picked up by the WB....it has a good solid foundation story...it left a lot of unanswered questions that most likely would have been answered in an ongoing series! Again this pilot may have been too violent for its intended audience! I mean Aquaman graphically kills the siren and the siren kills several people including Aquaman's girlfriend. Just my take! ,,,....Has anyone else seen this pilot?
I'd heard that the WB/CW (which was it at the time?) was going to go ahead with an Aquaman/Mercy Reef series, until the show Seventh Heaven was inexplicably renewed at the last minute, so there was no time slot left for Aquaman. I have no idea how true that is, but I guess stranger things have happened.
....I had to look this up! I had no idea that 7th Heaven was still on in 2006! Like stated above due to high ratings on what was supposed to be the final show....the WB renewed it for one more season!
I have to wonder, if the Aquaman series had gone ahead, while it might have crossed over with Smallville in the same way that Arrow & Flash have, would we ever have seen Green Arrow as a mostly regular on Smallville? And would the "Arrow" TV show we have now even have been considered if not for the character's exposure there? I've long suspected that Justin Hartley was cast as Green Arrow as a sort of consolation prize for the Aquaman series being shelved like it was, so is it possible that, if Seventh Heaven had stayed cancelled, we might not have the elaborate DC/CD universe we now have?