How David Hyde Becomes Black Manta in the Aquaman Movie

UPDATE : Read everything revealed by theAquamanset visit report .

Aquamanactor Yahya Abdul - Mateen II reveals how his character David Hyde becomes the villain Black Manta in the coming DCEU standalone film . Fans recently got their firstglimpse of Abdul - Mateen II as Hyde , gazing upon the Black Manta helmet he habituate to dive beneath the sea and maze with Aquaman . In the forthcoming film , Jason Momoa ’s Aquaman will actually have multiple enemies to contend with , as Black Mantawill be joined by King Orm(Patrick Wilson ) .

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Of course , no superhero saga would be complete without villains for the ripe guy to battle . David Hyde aka Black Manta will be one antagonist for Aquaman in the moving picture , and now Hyde actor Yahya Abdul - Mateen II has revealed what happens in the cinema to correct off the animosity between his character and the hero . In a set visit report fromJoBlo , Abdul - Mateen II discussed how Hyde and Aquaman come to be enemies after a life - neuter event . Hyde is rag high at the fourth dimension of his first showdown with Aquaman , but is lay waste to when he loses someone close to him during the altercation . As Abdul - Mateen II explain :

" He ’s riding on high , and at the flood tide , he lose his father . So we meet him at a time when he ’s just , he ’s on top and then , bam , straightaway , an event happens , and he ’s at the bottom . And he ’s lost the only person who he ’s ever love , and care for … and then , from then on , you have a go at it , ' It ’s Aquaman ’s fault ! ' He has very little else to survive for , and so it becomes that revenge news report . You have the relationship between fathers and Word , and the revenge that materialize when a Word loses his father , and then you have Aquaman , who is the heritor to the throne , who does n’t want to be tycoon , so it ’s an epic story . "

Abdul - Mateen II ’s verbal description stick near to the origin story of Black Manta offered up in Geoff Johns ' rebootedAquamancomic serial , in which Manta goes on a missionary station of retaliation against Aquaman after the expiry of his father . In terms of facial expression , the movie version ofBlack Manta will also stick closeto the comic book invention of the character . Psychologically , Hyde / Manta will also share a lot in rough-cut with the laughable book reading , after Abdul - Mateen translate the books and picked up on Hyde ’s barbarity . The histrion said :

" With Black Manta , I saw him , I was read the comic , ' The Others , ' and he … murdered someone , you screw . And in my experience , in comics , they ’re blowing people up to smithereens , or they ’ll use their business leader and they ’ll dart you off to the moon and you ’ll burst forth . And he was like , ' You know , I do n’t have meter for that . I ’m start to take my knife , and I would drive it through you , while order you that the next thing that I ’m travel to do is to go murder your kin also . ' "

It sound as if , at least when it comes to Black Manta , Aquamanwill go with the down - to - terra firma villain approach instead of making him the all - powerful supervillain buff have been treated to in motion-picture show likeJustice League . While super - powered villains might make for greater visual spectacle , they arguably are often lackingin the sort of credible motivation that make for good drama . In the suit of Black Manta , the motivation is pretty clear : he just want to get his hands on Aquaman and possibly ride a sword through him .