Last year, Wan started teasing his vision for the upcoming Aquaman sequel, Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom. DC hasn’t rushed the creative team on a sequel, opting for quality over quantity after a hurried effort to assemble their roster of heroes on screen resulted in middling reviews and reception. The story is similar to DC’s new 52 animated feature, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis from 2015, but Aquaman updates it with its own style and panache. He acts as a defender of the ocean until destiny calls on his intervention in the Atlantian royal affairs after his half-brother Orm ( Patrick Wilson) orchestrates a conflict with the surface. The movie takes place shortly after Justice League and sees Arthur struggling to accept his responsibilities to both Atlantis, and the terrestrial people of Earth. As a complete homage to action movies of the 1980s, Aquaman includes a hunk, one-liners, and action with punctuation. The introduction to Arthur Curry ( Jason Momoa) establishes the ‘80s action camp viewers can expect from the rest of the picture.
It rules for many reasons - Atlantians riding sharks and seahorses, spooky creatures in the deep, crab people! There’s a fun factor that Shazam! also touched on, but in Aquaman, face-melting special effects ornament almost every shot. James Wan’s Aquaman is the only DCEU film to gross more than a billion dollars worldwide.