"Aquaman-ify" Your Screenplay

Making a movie that is an audience pleaser, a grosser, and a hit with critics

To clarify, the term “Aquaman-ify” has nothing to do with DC’s “Aquaman” — rather, it was from an Entourage episode in which Vinny Chase (the moviestar) becomes a global success after starring in James’ Cameron’s fictional “Aquaman”. Subsequently, the indie film he did “Queens Boulevard” was re-cut by the studio and re-colored and the furious director, Billy Walsh, exclaimed: “They Aqua-manified my movie, Suit!”.

There’s your history lesson in Entourage folklore.

The point of me writing today’s article is to urge you to look at “Aquaman-ifying” your movie from a different point of view. You would be turning your passion project into a story that a massive audience can root for, enjoy, laugh at, weep at, get scared, surprised, etc.

We don’t make movies to exist in a vacuum, do we?