Seaside superhero Jason Momoa is back. In the lengthy, action-packed trailer for DC Studios ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which aired on Thursday, the actor reprises his role as Arthur Curry.
The main character, Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), the antagonist Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and Mera (Amber Heard), among others, can all be seen in the trailer.
In a scene in which they appear to band up against Manta, who once menacingly declared, “I’m gonna kill Aquaman and destroy everything he holds dear,” Arthur is seen getting to know his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson).
The villain continues, “I’m going to burn his kingdom to ashes and murder his family.”
The first standalone Aquaman movie from 2018 earned over $1 billion at the global box office.
Whereas that film served as a “romance action-adventure movie” about Arthur and Heard’s Mera, director James Wan told Entertainment Weekly the new installment is a “bromance action-adventure movie” with Arthur and half-brother Orm.
Wan, 46, also teased potential for future Aquaman movies and clarified that the new film is “not connected in any way to” recent DC films like The Flash.
“We enjoy how Arthur actually does grow in this one compared to the prior one. In the second film, he now has more of a direction of what he wants to achieve with his life after beginning as this sort of traveller, the filmmaker told EW.
If and when there is a third film, Wan said, “it should be about developing these characters because we think we’ve set up some things in a good place in the second movie that you can definitely draw upon in a third.”
Although he said, “We don’t have any stories, but developing the characters is the most important thing we think the next Aquaman movie should be about.”
In order to commemorate the final day of filming the movie, Wan posted a behind-the-scenes picture on Instagram back in January 2022.
“And finally, finally, finally picture wrap on the actual last day of #Aquaman2 in Malibu with these two gents @prideofgypsies @thereelpatrickwilson,” the tweet said. On this show, we do indeed frequently get quite wet, he added in the caption.
When the sequel’s release date was postponed later that year, Wan explained on Instagram that he and his team were doing “big, epic world-building” and “need the time to do it right.”
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