Variety is reporting that the WB is interested enough in an Aquaman series that they’ve requested the ‘Smallville’ team to produce a pilot for them. Plans are to NOT follow the same actor and interpretation of the character from the recent ‘Smallville’ appearance, but they have discussed possibly feeding off of HBO’s ‘Entourage’ storyline by casting Adrian Grenier (Vincent Chase) in the lead role. I’m guessing that won’t end up happening in the end, but it sure would be interesting.

The WB is taking the “Aquaman” plunge, teaming with Warner Bros. TV and the team behind “Smallville” for a primetime take on the DC Comics superhero.

Scribe-producers Al Gough and Miles Millar (”Spider-Man 2″) have signed on to create and exec produce an as-yet-untitled action drama revolving around a twentysomething Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman. Frog has made a put pilot commitment to the project, which has already begun casting. “Smallville” vet Greg Beeman is aboard to direct the pilot.

As with “Smallville,” their successful reinvention of the “Superman” saga, Gough and Millar plan to focus on character rather than cheese. Skein won’t be called “Aquaman” — indeed, the “A” word won’t even be mentioned — and Curry “won’t be talking to fish or riding a seahorse,” Gough said.

And while “Smallville” recently generated great ratings with an episode featuring an appearance by Aquaman, the new project won’t be a spinoff. To underline that point, Alan Ritchson, the actor who played Curry on “Smallville,” isn’t under consideration for the role in the pilot.

…Millar said he and Gough are hoping to create “a grounded version of the Aquaman mythology,” focusing on an Arthur Curry who “knows what he wants to do with his life, which is protect the oceans.”

Unlike Clark Kent, Curry is a more extroverted character, even a bit cocky and hotheaded at times, the two producers said.

As for plots, “The stories will come from the environment: ocean polluters, evil oil companies and other (threats to the) environment,” Gough said. Skein will be set — and possibly lensed — in the Florida Keys, not far from the Bermuda Triangle, which will be another major story engine.

“There’s a mystery surrounding the disappearance of (Curry’s) mother and the Bermuda Triangle,” Gough said, adding that other freaky occurrences related to the Triangle will provide plot points.

Curry will have some superpowers, though he’s just beginning to understand them. He’ll be able to breathe underwater and have superstrength in water; even a little bit of water will boost his power, allowing producers to explore some plots on land.

Character’s adopted father will be an officer in the Coast Guard, and he’ll also have a mentor who’ll help train him, the producers said.

Janollari, himself an avid diver, said that when Gough and Millar first pitched the idea of an Aquaman episode of a “Smallville” episode, he took to it like a fish to water. “I always thought he was one of the coolest heroes in the DC Comics library,” he told Daily Variety.

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