Aquaman 2: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

[BusSport]

Aquaman 2: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will be the 13th 14th 15th film of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), following The Flash Shazam! 2: Fury of the Gods The Flash Blue Beetle and preceding Shazam! 2: Fury of the Gods The Flash Blue Beetle with no announced movie following it.

James Wan will return to direct, and Jason Momoa will return to star. The film will be released on Friday, December 16, 2022 Friday, March 17, 2023 Monday, December 25, 2023.

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[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Is that 'yotch Amber Heard going to be in this?

 

[BigFin]

I was just re-watching Aquaman and the SFX are 10+ years behind the MCU. The fight with Black Manta looked like a small step up from Power Rangers.

 

[Black Adam]

lol was just talking about the first movie today. thanks for the heads up...

 

[Duffman]

 

[The Q]

I’m more interested in the Vincent chase version

 

[BusSport]

WB continuing to show everything is going well as part of a master plan for DC by announcing that Aquaman 2 will be delayed almost a year to Monday, December 25, 2023.

 

[BusSport]

This report doesn't sound good:

"Warner Bros.' Quest to Build a Better Aquaman Sequel: 3 Reshoots, Two Batmans, and Non-Stop Test Screenings"

 

[calsnowskier]

This report doesn't sound good:

"Warner Bros.' Quest to Build a Better Aquaman Sequel: 3 Reshoots, Two Batmans, and Non-Stop Test Screenings"

I am willing to give Gunn some rope, but basically everything in the pipe currently is rotten meat he was told to make a gourmet meal out of. Let’s see what they produce in ‘25 forward.

 

[BusSport]

I've heard from more than one person James Wan has had a worse experience on AQUAMAN 2 than he had on FURIOUS 7, a movie he was having a terrible time on (hi, Vin!) *before* Paul Walker died.

 

[Duffman]

I am willing to give Gunn some rope, but basically everything in the pipe currently is rotten meat he was told to make a gourmet meal out of. Let’s see what they produce in ‘25 forward.

I can see why Gunn cut the Batman scenes. Considering the DCEU is dead why give people teases for things you have no intent on delivering on?

 

[BusSport]

Teaser for the trailer upcoming in 4 days:

 

[The Q]

Ready for it

 

[wazzu31]

I can see why Gunn cut the Batman scenes. Considering the DCEU is dead why give people teases for things you have no intent on delivering on?

Then Gunn isn’t the dude to revive it. They had all of the pieces to salvage it. DC had the perfect Superman, WW, AM, Cyborg, Harley Quinn etc. Individually the characters are popular but the writing sucked and them doing BvS way too early killed it.

 

[DarthVedder]

Then Gunn isn’t the dude to revive it. They had all of the pieces to salvage it. DC had the perfect Superman, WW, AM, Cyborg, Harley Quinn etc. Individually the characters are popular but the writing sucked and them doing BvS way too early killed it.

All those people, particularly the trinity, were great but were just wasted in terrible movies. Now after 4 embarrassing post-COVID flops in a row, the DCEU is just dead and they are forced to reboot, and the actors are just too old for a new universe (Affleck is over 50, Cavill is 40 while Gadot is close to that).

I think that they are repeating some of the same mistakes by going immediately with a Superman movie. They should be patient and first rebuild some goodwill through smaller projects like Peacemaker before bringing out the big guns.

 

[Superbelt]

Teaser for the trailer upcoming in 4 days:

I know they were quick cuts, but from 0:18 - 0:22 was more typical horrible CGI.

If you can't do CGI well, stop doing it so much. It pulls you out of the story and you focus on the bad effects instead.

 

[DarthVedder]

I know they were quick cuts, but from 0:18 - 0:22 was more typical horrible CGI.

If you can't do CGI well, stop doing it so much. It pulls you out of the story and you focus on the bad effects instead.

We'll go from "they will fix it before release" to "it was meant to look that way"...

 

[Superbelt]

We'll go from "they will fix it before release" to "it was meant to look that way"...

And this movie, like most DC content, was meant to be watched streaming on Max or a Redbox rental.

 

[calsnowskier]

We'll go from "they will fix it before release" to "it was meant to look that way"...

But DC has always had bad, over the top cgi. Almost Transformers level (though Transformers had better cgi).

DC movies are just a shitshow. Go back to the practical effects of SMTMP and go from there. CGI should be a special side dish, not the main course.

 

[DarthVedder]

But DC has always had bad, over the top cgi. Almost Transformers level (though Transformers had better cgi).

DC movies are just a shitshow. Go back to the practical effects of SMTMP and go from there. CGI should be a special side dish, not the main course.

Before the current slate of movies, the only one that had embarrassingly bad CGI was Josstice league because of the reshoots. For all its story-problems, BvS was a gorgeous movie with great effects (with the exception of the generic monster Doomsday at the end).

Right now it's pretty obvious that WB just don't want to keep spending money on these projects and are releasing them with incomplete effects. The Flash was just ridiculous, some of the effects were Scorpion King level.