Perhaps one of the most divisive and, at the same time, fascinating films that the DC Extended Universe has left us since it kicked off in 2013 with Zack Snyder’s ‘Man of Steel’ is James Wan’s ‘Aquaman’ . An audiovisual delirium starring Jason Momoa in which there was room for the epic, the action and even for octopuses doing batucadas.
The undisputed success of the original film, which amassed 1,148 million dollars worldwide, made a sequel inevitable which, after turning Warner’s release schedule upside down, will hit our theaters on December 25, 2023. And to warm up the engines for its launch, we are going to collect all we know about this ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.
When does ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ premiere?
At the beginning of 2019 -specifically in the month of January-, we learned that ‘Aquaman 2’ had been launched and, since then, the dance of dates has been exhausting; Placing the first of them in the feature film on December 16 of this same 2022. But we already know how this grill works in the big studios.
After the controversy related to Amber Heard, who plays Mera in the film, and from a facelift to the Warner catalog, the new ‘Aquaman’ made the leap to 2023; specifically on March 17. But after the wave of controversies headed by Ezra Miller, the company relocated it again to what, for the moment, is its final date: on December 25, 2023.
Cast and protagonists of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’
Of course, the cast of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is populated by familiar faces whom we saw in the original feature film, starting with that of the Jason Momoa, who has once again put himself in the shoes of Arthur Curry for the occasion. Next to him, they repeat patrick wilson like Orm, Yahya Abudl-Mateen II as Black Manta Dolph Lundgren like Nereus, Temuera Morrison as Tom Curry Nicole Kidman like atlanna and Amber Heard like Mera —although it remains to be seen how much footage his appearance will cover after the scandalous trial with Johnny Depp—.
However, the great addition to the cast of ‘Aquaman 2’ is none other than Ben Affleck, who brings Bruce Wayne back to life after showing his disenchantment shooting the reshoots of ‘Justice League’ under the orders of Joss Whedon and after wearing the mantle of the bat again in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’. Long live Batfleck!
The director of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’
One more time, James Wan has been in charge of occupying the director’s seat in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ after his more than decent work in the first film; proving once again that his thing is not only horror, but that he works perfectly in the field of blockbuster, after his work on films like the hilarious ‘Fast & Furious 7’.
However, if the Malay it has made a niche in the industry it has been thanks to horror; genre in which he has given us titles like ‘Saw’, the first two ‘Warren Files’, the brilliant ‘Insidious’ and ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’, the underrated ‘Silence from evil’ and that delicious delirium entitled ‘Malignant’ .
The ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ team
As it could not be otherwise, James Wan has surrounded himself with a first division team to shape ‘Aquaman 2’, and this begins with screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who repeats after the first ‘Aquaman’ and who has signed the scripts for films such as ‘The Orphan’, several episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ or the second and third parts of ‘The Warren File’.
For its part, the soundtrack will once again feature the scores of the veteran Rupert Gregson-Williams —’Aquaman’, ‘Wondwer Woman’, ‘Until the last man’, ‘The Crown’— and the production design will be carried out by Bill Brzeskiresponsible for ‘Aquaman’, ‘Fast and Furious 8’ or ‘Jumanji: Next level’.
The story of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’
Nothing better to get an idea of what ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is going to offer us than to take a look at his latest synopsis published by Warner.
“When an ancient power is unleashed, Aquaman must forge an uneasy alliance with an unlikely ally to protect Atlantis and the world from irreversible devastation.”
What will be the “ancient power” to which they refer? Will the ally they refer to be Orm? Blanket? There are still many answers to getand with the time remaining until the premiere, everything indicates that we will have to wait a long season to start receiving them.