According to AquamanTV.com, several of the Hollywood tabloids are announcing that Aquaman has been cast for the new WB show. Still no firm title for the series, but I guess that’s really not as important as finding the right guy for the inevitably shirtless job. Actor and model Will Toale has been tapped to portray Arthur Curry.

Apparently the 6-foot-2 Will’s done some modeling too, as evidenced by these photos. He’ll have to get used to being shirtless, because with the show being so water-based, and being on The WB network, they will want to repeat the ratings success of the Smallville “Aqua” episode. He’s a Florida native who migrated to New York for his stage work.

“In the search for Aquaman, we saw over 400 people in England, Australia, Canada and several U.S. cities,” series co-creator Alfred Gough told Variety. “We saw Will’s tape over Christmas, and he was the only guy we took to the network.”

“We call him ‘the much-maligned Aquaman,’ but when we first pitched Smallville, Superman was considered cheesy,” Gough said. “In the comic, Aquaman’s the lost king of Atlantis, but in our version, he is Arthur Curry, this twentysomething who owns a dive shop.”

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