Amber Heard in Talks To Join JUSTICE LEAGUE and AQUAMAN
Warner Bros. and director James Wan are currently in the process of developing the solo Aquaman movie starring Jason Momoa. It looks like they may have found their female lead in Amber Heard. If cast, not only will she be in Aquaman, but she will also have a role in Zack Snyder's Justice League movie as well.
If the casting goes through, she will be taking on the role of Mera, an undersea queen who ends up marrying Aquaman in the comics. I'm not a big fan of Heard. She's never really impressed me as an actress. For those of you not familiar with who Mera is, here's a description from DC Comics:
She rules the seas alongside Aquaman, one of the most well-known heroes in the world, and stands as one of the most powerful women in the DC Universe. Her name is Mera and you don't want to get on this quick-tempered beauty's bad side because she won't hesitate to kick your butt across all seven seas.
A princess of the underwater kingdom of Xebel who possesses enhanced strength, durability and the ability to bend water to her will, Mera trained since birth for her ultimate mission: to kill the current King of Atlantis in retaliation for her people's exile. Mera knew that to do this, she’d have to gain Aquaman’s trust. It was the only way she could get close enough to kill him. But as she got to know Aquaman, something unexpected occurred—she fell in love. And thus began the fiery redhead's constantly conflicted sense of being. To stand beside her husband is to betray her family and her people, but to give them what they want, to fulfill her mission, is something her heart would never allow her to do.
Although a hero in her own right, Mera often finds herself struggling between two worlds—whether it’s between her own people and her husband or between those of the surface and those of the sea. Her aggressive nature especially puts her at odds with the surface world, a world so much bigger and more complex than she was ever taught and with whom she finds it impossible to relate to and understand. It’s for her love of Aquaman that she even attempts to understand this world of man, and why she continues to try to be a part of both worlds while terrified of belonging to none.
Heard would join an ensemble cast that also includes Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, and Ezra Miller, who are all are expected to appear in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before teaming up in Justice League.
Do you think Heard has what it takes to take on the role of Mera in the DC Extended Universe?
Source: Variety