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DC HOUSE ADS
James Cameron's Aquaman
Entourage is an HBO series about a movie star and his friends. On the show, the movie star, Vincent Chase, films movies that are fictional, but he works with celebrities who are very REAL. In seasons two and three, Vince pursues and then lands the role of Aquaman in a fictional movie supposedly directed by James Cameron.
In one episode, Vince attends a comic convention to promote the film, and gives an interview to a comic fan on-line reporter. During the interview, Vince repeats a quote supplied to him by his press agent. He says, "It wasn't until Ramona Fradon took over Aquaman that I really began to appreciate the character." But wait... |
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| Ramona Fradon drew Aquaman's 1961 try-out in Showcase (seen above). She also drew the previous Aquaman feature, which began in Adventure Comics #215, August 1955! So what was Vince, who is supposed to be under 30, talking about? In 1955, he was about negative 21 years old, and here is what Ramona Fradon looked like back then... |
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OK, so they made a small continuity error. Big deal. Anyway, here's the uniform Vince was supposed to wear as Aquaman. But he refused, and James Cameron supposedly ditched this uniform... |
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Entourage always creates fake movie posters for their fake movies... |
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| ...as well as other promotional items. Here's Vince's brother, John Chase, aka Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), with a fake program for the movie... |
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And here's Vince's super-agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven),
with a metal Aquaman paper weight... |
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The Aquaman movie t-shirt. |
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Fake cover alert! |
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And just for the fun of it... |
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The big night! The (fake) premiere of "James Cameron's Aquaman." |
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A clip from the movie (the only one we're ever shown) shows Vince in a tux,
walking down a long pier as a tidal wave is about to hit... |
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We don't see what happens next, but this fake movie was a fake smash success. Entourage spent a lot of money putting a very REAL ad in the industry's real trade newspaper, Variety. The ad announced the movie's supposed initial grosses, which supposedly topped Spider-Man's, making it the biggest film opening ever at the time. It's easy to make a fake movie succeed big time when the script says it will.
The real ad, shown below, is typical of the kind of ad taken out to celebrate the huge success of a movie. The film's gigantic grosses are usually reported with some sort of pun on the movie's name. In this case, "splash" is the operative word, as is "still swimming." Congratulations, James Cameron's Aquaman! |
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The Aqua-logo turned up again in the recent premiere of Entourage season eight, this time on a sign held by a fan dressed in a home-made "movie Aquaman" costume (maybe Vince wore that costume in the fake movie after all?) as Vince exits the rehab center he went to following the previous season's wild partying with Tequila and porn stars..
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