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Earlier within the week, Warner Bros. revealed the primary trailer of Aquaman & the Misplaced Kingdom. When director James Wan talked to the press, he talked about that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta would function the movie’s large unhealthy after being extra of a henchman to Ocean Grasp (Patrick Wilson) within the unique movie. And a part of Manta’s story within the movie will contain materials from a film he was initially meant to headline.
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Chances are you’ll recall just a few years in the past that Warner Bros. up and introduced an Aquaman spinoff referred to as The Trench, based mostly on these nasty-looking undersea monsters in the course of the first film’s third act. It appeared like a bizarre gambit, given it wouldn’t have starred anybody from the primary film, however then after mentioned spinoff acquired canceled alongside Ava DuVernay’s New Gods, Wan revealed that Trench was a smokescreen for what was really a Black Manta solo movie. Wan defined that on the time, they didn’t reveal a film was within the works for one of many largest haters within the DC Comics pantheon to shock audiences. However because it’s now not a factor, Misplaced Kingdom may have what was deliberate for that film.
“The Trench film, it was going to be a secret Black Manta film,” he mentioned. “When that didn’t occur, a few of these concepts discovered its approach into this. […] We got here up with a variety of actually attention-grabbing concepts and actually cool stuff that I felt we are able to use on this one.” Not less than a type of concepts is given correct consideration within the trailer: Manta’s seen wielding the Black Trident, an Atlantean weapon that offers him an actual edge in opposition to Aquaman this time round. Presumably that deliberate film would’ve seen him search for the Trident, or simply actually something that may’ve been an appropriate improve, after which we’d’ve seen the fruits of these labors in Misplaced Kingdom correct.
Regardless that the Black Manta film is lifeless within the water, Wan continues to be hoping to construct out a standalone universe for the Aquaman motion pictures. (The ACU, I suppose?) He acknowledged that Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry has “extra locations to go,” and that Misplaced Kingdom will tee up a 3rd installment. And for him, the enjoyable is attending to discover the totally different elements of Atlantis and the Seven Kingdoms, which he feels are robust sufficient to exist as their very own factor separate from the ever-fluctuating DC universe. “My dream can be to create a Seven Kingdoms cinematic universe and go to all of the totally different worlds that we contact on with these two movies,” Wan admitted. “We get pleasure from all of the totally different worlds that no different superhero motion pictures go into.”
Aquaman & the Misplaced Kingdom releases in theaters on December 20.
[via IGN]
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