{"id":1107,"date":"2014-08-14T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:45:01","slug":"jason-momoa-aka-khal-drogo-play-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/14\/jason-momoa-aka-khal-drogo-play-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa, aka Khal Drogo, to Play Aquaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Momoa, he of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> fame, is trading in his Dothraki horse for &#8230; well &#8230; a seahorse.<\/p>\n<p>HitFlix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/motion-captured\/jason-momoa-will-play-aquaman-in-dawn-of-justice-and-we-know-how-it-will-happen\">confirmed<\/a>, after weeks of rumors, that the man who played Khal Drogo, feared warlord of the (extremely water-averse) nomadic horse-mounted warriors, will portray Aquaman in director Zack Snyder&#8217;s <em>Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/em>. Co-stars include recurring characters from <em>Man of Steel<\/em>: Amy Adams,\u00a0Laurence Fishburne, and\u00a0Diane Lane; plus Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Jeremy Irons as Alfred.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the events of <em>Man of Steel<\/em>, Aquaman is pissed, which explains the casting, because Momoa spent a whole season of <em>Games of Thrones<\/em> looking pissed. Or horny. Or pissed and horny.<\/p>\n<p>But the role isn&#8217;t a major one. It&#8217;s more of an introduction to the character, likely in advance of his own flick.<\/p>\n<p>Momoa will be good. But can he be Vinny Chase-good?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F5GOrfcZg9E[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Oh, definitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Momoa, he of Game of Thrones fame, is trading in his Dothraki horse for &#8230; well &#8230; a seahorse. HitFlix confirmed, after weeks of rumors, that the man who played Khal Drogo, feared warlord of the (extremely water-averse) nomadic horse-mounted warriors, will portray Aquaman in director Zack Snyder&#8217;s Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/14\/jason-momoa-aka-khal-drogo-play-aquaman\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[598,7,602,601,603,599,600],"class_list":{"0":"post-1107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-auquaman","9":"tag-game-of-thrones-2","10":"tag-jason-momoa","11":"tag-justice-league","12":"tag-khal-drogo","13":"tag-man-of-steel","14":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}