Had totally forgotten that this was supposed to exist until this trailer popped up today on Dark Horizons.
"Empires of The Deep" is being referred to as the biggest U.S./Chinese co-production ever at a $100 Million budget, but supposedly the "Chinese" side of that is almost-entirely from a single China-based Real Estate billionaire. I like how nobody even bats an eye anymore at the idea of a supposedly-"communist" country having billionaires, incidentally...
The pitch? It's "Avatar" meets "The Little Mermaid," with a human hero traveling to an underwater kingdom and getting swept up into an epic war between rival fish-person nations. Naturally, it's in 3D (something you need to understand about the 3D "thing" right now: Chinese audiences are madly in love with 3D - thats one of the biggest reasons they keep doing it.) The early buzz is that it's a "Dragon Wars"-level fiasco in every way except the effects (scale wise, at least), design and action stuff:
So... probably a camp classic waiting to happen. Still, I can't look at the "bigger" parts of this and wonder why I seem to be the only person who can totally see how "Aquaman" could actually work...
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