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. 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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