After making a brief debut in Batman vs. Superman, Aquaman is set to swim to the big screen!
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]ith Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice finally released, DC fans get to look forward to Justice League and the solo movies that will come out for the heroes who were featured in the BvS movie. One of those heroes turned out to be Aquaman (played by Jason Momoa.)
Last week, there was a press conference where Aquaman director James Wan spoke of what will specifically be featured in the movie: Sea Monsters!
“I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman,” Wan said. “We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let’s say, I was with X-Men. I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there’s always something kind of cool about Aquaman still, the idea of creating a huge world that is on our planet. That’s the thing about Aquaman that’s cool is he’s not an alien, right? He’s from our planet and he’s from a society that we’re not privy to in the context of the story. Isn’t it crazy to think that we’ve explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.”
Unlike BvS, Wan told reporters that this movie will have ‘a sense of fun,’ unlike BvS director Zack Snyder’s dark approach to BvS. Wan’s big production movies, Fast and the Furious 7 and Aquaman, are described as “playing in someone else’s sandbox, but being able to build his own sandcastle.”
Wan also said that he considers Aquaman the underdog superhero, as he believes that people pick and make fun of him. With his new movie, Aquaman has a chance to throw it back in their faces!
The nice thing about Aquaman is, unlike multiple Superman and Batman movies, we have yet to see an Aquaman solo movie. There’s no live-action movie that we can compare this one to. The cool thing about this is that Aquaman is not an alien and yet, it still feels like he’s from a different world.
In technical terms, this movie is no walk in the park. But Wan’s first priority will be to create cool characters before getting into the technical part of the movie. Specifically sea monsters!
It will be awhile before we see him, but Aquaman will be available on July 27, 2018!
