“This is definitely behind the curtain!
“Nicole Kidmanremarks as she stops by to greet EW on the set ofAquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
“Everyone’s been telling me, ‘You should have been here last year.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Studios
Last year, the summer was great!'”
franchise directorJames Wansays later in the day, which marks the 80th of the film’s shoot.
“I had no summer at all.
Jason Momoa and James Wan on the set of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Studios
“Making movies is tough enough, making a massive tentpole film is even harder.
“Obviously, I have to be mindful,” he says.
“There is a humor in this movie that is far greater than even existed in the first.”
Patrick Wilson’s Orm in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics
The characters played by Nolte and Murphy bickered on the mean streets of San Francisco.
“James has turned this into his version of a Harryhausen movie,” Brzeski says.
So, we just had to be prepared.
Arthur rides a giant seahorse in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics
That’s the bottom line.”
So, Batman doesnotappear inAquaman 2?
“That’s a ‘no comment,’ right now,” the director says.
“You’re going to have to wait for the movie to come out.”
“I’ve known James since way back, right?”
“We’re horror guys, and so I’m definitely open to ideas.
But, at the end of the day, this is my movie.”
So, we had to break up our shooting schedule into sections.
People are like, ‘Oh, they’re doing a whole bunch of different shoots!’
Wan has form when it comes to creating something special with additional photography.
The director instead created the character of the Demon Nun, played by Bonnie Aarons, amid reshoots.
1 film in the country following the film’s release last week.
Today, the director says, for him, “additional photography is never a negative thing.”
Same here as well.”
Wan is circumspect while talking about the other shadow looming over his film, which involves Amber Heard.
Theysettled in 2022and dropped their respective appeals.
The director recalls, “I always pitched this to everyone from the get-go.
The firstAquamanwas Arthur and Mera’s journey.
The second movie was always going to be Arthur and Orm.
So, the first was a romance action-adventure movie, the second one is abromanceaction-adventure movie.
We’ll leave it at that.”
Cedars Sinai is truly the best!!”
The post was swiftly taken down, and Wan declines to detail what prompted the hospital visit.
However, he denies that it was brought on by the pressure of making this particular film.
“That’s a personal thing that has nothing to do withAquaman,” he says with a laugh.
“Every movie kills me as a director, okay?
you could quote me on that one.Everymovie kills me.
(The first full trailer will arrive tomorrow.)
The Octobot is one of their traveling vehicles that move in and out of the water.
So, everything about it has a very retro feel.”
The director explains that Topo will have “a stronger presence in this film.
He’s an actual character in this one.”
And would Wan be interested in directing a thirdAquamanfilm?
“Oh, buddy,” he says.
“I don’t know.
Somewhere nottooclose to the ocean, perhaps.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdomwill be released in theaters this Dec. 20.
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