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27 on 'Aquaman' director James Wan on balancing practicality with a "super cool" helmet for Black MantaEditor’s note: This article was originally published on Batman News sister site, Superhero News. One of the best character designs in the history of comics finally hits the big screen this December when Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) wreaks havoc in Aquaman. The character may not be a known commodity for general audiences, but his costume,…
Aquaman director James Wan got his start in the horror genre with movies like Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring. So naturally, he'll be bringing some horror elements to Aquaman as well. In a new interview with Total Film magazine, Wan recalls his pitch meeting with Warner Bros. about making sure they were cool with him…
Aquaman is just about 4 months away now, and official toys are starting to hit stores. Aquaman co-writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick spotted an Aquaman LEGO set in the wild and shared photos of it on Twitter. It gives us a good look at Black Manta's submarine. Aquaman director James Wan replied to the tweet, saying…
By now you've seen the Aquaman trailer that dropped this past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, but you probably haven't seen it with commentary...
Aquaman set visit reports came out this week with new interviews from the cast and crew. One of the things that was commonly brought up was what it was like playing the characters in Justice League versus an Aquaman solo movie. Jason Momoa explained that James Wan's vision for Aquaman is "really, really different" than…
San Diego Comic-Con kicks off later this week, and Aquaman director James Wan is still hard at work on the first trailer that's confirmed to debut at the event. "Working overtime to put the finishing touches for this coming week!!," Wan said on Twitter, using the hashtag #SDCC2018. He shared a photo from the editing…
Entertainment Weekly published a new interview with Aquaman director James Wan today. They pointed out that Marvel was able to make a hit movie that starred a talking raccoon in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, so that getting the mainstream to take Aquaman (who has been considered a joke to the public) seriously may not…
Funko recently announced they were making one of their popular Pop! figures of Aquaman director James Wan. Wan has received his Pop! and shared it on social media, but he also shared a new look at Aquaman in the process. "My lifelike clone finally arrived!," Wan wrote on Instagram. "Thank you Funko. Put him/me straight…
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly gives us an idea of the plot in Aquaman, specifically why the villain King Orm (aka Ocean Master) has a problem with Aquaman, his half-brother. “He’s kind of an eco-warrior,” Orm actor Patrick Wilson said. “He’s got a very clear gripe with the surface world, which has been polluting…
Earlier this week, the first Aquaman trailer was previewed at a conference called CineEurope in Barcelona, Spain. Variety reported that the trailer would be released "in the next few days", but we'll have to wait a bit longer. Aquaman director James Wan just took to Twitter to confirm that the trailer will debut at San…
The new Aquaman content from Entertainment Weekly continues to roll out! They released cool magazine covers, a first look at Black Manta, and now we have 5 more new images from the movie. In the gallery below, we get cool new looks at Jason Momoa as Aquaman and Amber Heard as Mera. We also get…
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Entertainment Weekly has revealed two collectible Aquaman covers for this week's magazine. The first features a solo look at star Jason Momoa, while the second features Momoa and his co-stars, Amber Heard as Mera, and Nicole Kidman as Queen Atlanna. “The water world my movie takes place in is so separate and so far apart from…
We last heard from Aquaman director James Wan in March, when he explained that a trailer hadn't been released yet because of all the visual effects that he wanted to be perfect. Now, a few months later, Wan has provided another update. When a fan on Twitter asked Wan when the Aquaman trailer would be…
Earlier this week Jason Momoa shared a set photo from Aquaman reshoots that are currently going on, and today director James Wan announced that they're adding a new character. Randall Park has been cast as Dr. Shin in Aquaman. In the comics, Shin is a friend of Arthur Curry's and helps him develop his Aquaman…
Many fans were hoping that the first Aquaman trailer would premiere this weekend at WonderCon, and there were even some bogus rumors floating around about it, but the Warner Bros. panel came and went without a trailer. Aquaman director James Wan must have saw some of the fan reactions because he took to Twitter to…
Voice looping, or ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement), is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes (thanks, Wikipedia!). With that definition out of the way, on to the news... Aquaman director James Wan shared a photo of Black Manta actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen…
Happy New Year, everyone! It's 2018, and that means that Aquaman is officially hitting theaters this year. Director James Wan celebrated the new year by sharing a mysterious new set photo from the movie. In the photo above, we see what looks like some kind of Atlantean armor, as well as a hook. But no,…
USA Today has released their top 10 most anticipated movies for 2018, and making the list was Aquaman. Included in their story was an intense new photo of Jason Momoa in the movie. Batman News has obtained a hi-res copy, you can check it out above. USA Today also got some new quotes from Aquaman…
We know that Aquaman has three potential villains. Patrick Wilson is Aquaman’s half-brother Orm (aka Ocean Master), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Black Manta, and Dolph Lundgren is King Nereus. But according to Aquaman director James Wan, it's "ridiculous" to think that he'd put three villains into his movie. “This is what I’ll say: I don’t…
There's a reason why Aquaman is going to be one of (if not the) first movies to take place underwater: it's extremely hard to do from a technical aspect. Zack Snyder figured it out for Justice League, the action looked great, but there was one aspect that left room for improvement -- the dialogue. The…
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