Subsequent week sees the discharge of Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom, DC’s last film of 2023. The original 2018 film was a billion-dollar hit, however the sequel appears like is occupying this bizarre house the place it feels prefer it ought to’ve been out by now, or is farther away than it appears. Both method, in case you had been questioning about the way forward for the character, it sounds just like the writing’s already on the wall.
“It’s not trying too good,” Jason Momoa advised Entertainment Tonight. The outlet requested him in regards to the possibilities of exhibiting up in James Gunn’s new universe of DC motion pictures, and he was candid in regards to the presently slim possibilities of returning because the Atlantean. “I don’t essentially need it to be the top,” he admitted, including that issues might change if audiences take a shine to the movie and it does properly on the field workplace. Even so, he acknowledged that issues are mainly out of his fingers at this level.
With it being recognized that Gunn and Peter Safran are beginning up the DC motion pictures once more with Superman: Legacy in 2025, that information has hung over Shazam 2, The Flash, and Blue Beetle. That’s not the solely motive audiences didn’t present up for these movies, however you’ll be able to think about the overall information that these flicks are semi-inconsequential isn’t precisely encouraging within the leadup to their particular person releases.
Momoa used the interview to wax poetic about his time as Aquaman, calling his skill to vary the general public notion of the hero “a extremely onerous goddamn factor to do. I really like this character and [I would want to] play it for a very long time,” he mentioned. Alongside along with his basic curiosity in seeing the place else he might take the character, he beloved getting to make use of the solo film as a chance to develop Aquaman from his Justice League debut. “It’s enjoyable simply to simply be the reluctant king after which getting previous all of his ego, and [seeing him] realizing what he’s meant to do.”
Ought to he have his method, Momoa does hope to pop up within the new DC universe someway, and never simply because the King of the Seas. “If there’s a spot of their world for me, I might like to be part of it,” he continued. “Warner and DC is unquestionably my house.”
Aquaman & the Misplaced Kingdom hits theaters subsequent week on December 22.
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