#Willem dafoe justice league movie
In a recent interview with The Playlist (via Heroic Hollywood) Dafoe said he shot a few scenes in the movie and talked briefly about his co-star Gal Gadot who plays Wonder Woman. Alongside getting a plot synopsis, an official logo, and information surrounding Batman’s new tech and solo movie outing, one surprise reveal was the part Willem Dafoe would play in the film.ĭafoe’s role is that of Nuidis Vulko, an important adviser and friend to Aquaman in Atlantis, indicating the Atlanteans will play a key role in deciding whether their King should join the Justice League. For now, Justice League serves as a fitting tease for the future King of Atlantis.Towards the end of last month multiple press outlets were fortunate enough to visit the set of Zack Synder’s Justice League movie, shooting in London. Fortunately, next year will bring both more context to Aquaman's life and the debut of Dafoe's Vulko. Shades of his tragic past and issues with both of his home worlds are alluded to in the film, but there's not much time spent exploring these ideas. Though Justice League would have to be considerably longer to include these scenes, they would have gone a long way towards making Aquaman more than just one-note thrill seeker. So after that, I was like, ‘fuck you, fuck you, I’m on my own.'” And he gets down there, and he’s a half breed, he’s impure, and I’m just made to feel like I’m this disease. “Vulko’s his connection to Atlantis. I think what Zack and I did, we were kind of trying to establish that he was taken down there as a boy, and he was an outcast, he was a half-breed, and he was built up as a young boy, because he was fed all these ideas by Vulko - that he was the rightful king. The flip side, however, is that Arthur Curry's contentious relationship with his people is left out of the former - something that Momoa commented on: This, in turn, allows the big reveal of the underwater city to be saved for James Wan's Aquaman next year. There just wasn't enough time in this movie."Ītlantis itself (the location where one of the Mother Boxes is kept, to be exact) only makes a brief appearance during Justice League. There's Vulko-obviously we'll have way more scenes with Vulko, Willem Dafoe-in Aquaman. He knows spots where he can go and he can see these statues, the remnants of. "There's a place where goes down to, and it got cut out of the movie. Naturally, the movie's modest runtime played a role, thus cutting some vital shading for Aquaman. GameSpot spoke with the stars of Justice League about the film's deleted scenes and asked Momoa in particular what happened to Dafoe appearing as Vulko. RELATED: Justice League Easter Eggs & Comics References When it comes to the latter, it turns out he was originally meant to have a fairly sizable role in the film and Arthur Curry's plotline. In the end, characters like Kiersey Clemons' Iris West and Willem Dafoe's Nuidis Vulko were cut from the film. As such, each was meant to have a few supporting players to help flesh out their backstory. Given that Justice League brings Aquaman, Cyborg, and The Flash fully into DC's shared cinematic universe, the film was always designed to serve as a mini origin story for the characters. Footage of the actor filming underwater scenes for the film gave fans one of their first behind-the-scenes looks at Justice League, ahead of time. During the buildup to Justice League's release, the first image of Momoa as Aquaman (in)famously included the now-aborted 'Unite the Seven' catchphrase. Although Justice League offers a glimpse at the underwater city of Atlantis, Jason Momoa has confirmed that there were more scenes set there that wound up on the cutting room floor.