Jason Momoa

Photos shared to Facebook revealed Momoa visited a marae in Glen Eden yesterday. Momoa is in Auckland to film his new series Yenedakine (Chief of War), based on ...

[visited the Bay of Islands in October for a formal welcome by local hapū Ngāti Kuta and Patukeha](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/rawhiti-abuzz-as-aquaman-star-jason-momoa-welcomed-to-bay-of-islands/RQ5VBNAOWXTEBZSXPWOQNF6C4Y/). Great news for our film industry,” another wrote. [the Herald reported that a casting call for the series had been swamped with thousands of applications](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/extras-wanted-for-bay-of-islands-scenes-in-hollywood-star-jason-momoas-new-series/RWQTJOU2EJF2VOSVP4UW3MSG5E/). “I got to fa’aula Jason Momoa (Samoan for putting necklace on him) to welcome him and acknowledge the importance of his presence and thanked him for bringing his film production to Tāmaki Makaurau, we appreciate it as a city,” she wrote. The show, told from an indigenous viewpoint and starring Honolulu-born Momoa as a warrior chief, will be filmed in locations across Auckland, the Bay of Islands, and Hawaii, and will eventually screen on Apple TV+. Momoa is in Auckland to film his new series Yenedakine (Chief of War), based on the true story of a warrior chief caught up in the colonisation of Hawaii in the late 1700s.