Aquaman (2006) (TV Movie)

format_quote Arthur Curry: (to McCaffery) Does Atlantis has a retractable dome? Or does everyone just swim around in there like a bunch of fish?

stars  Justin Hartley also played Green Arrow in Smallville at around the same time this episode was released.

stars  Will Toale was originally cast as Arthur Curry but left due to creative differences.

stars  After the pilot was not picked up, it was released for download on iTunes and was the #1 downloaded program. It was the first unsold pilot to be available on iTunes.

stars  Adrianne Palicki made other one time DC Comics television appearances. She was in one episode of Smallville and was Wonder Woman in the failed NBC pilot of that name. Eventually Palicki had a much longer amount of success in comic book based television when she joined the cast of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a regular in the second season.

stars  The creation of this pilot stemmed from the episode Smallville: Aqua (2005). Alan Ritchson played Arthur Curry in the episode but he was not considered for the pilot because the creators did not want it to be a spin-off from Smallville (2001).