Aquaman 2 director James Wan has teased that there may still be an Aquaman 3.
During a live Q&A for the Aquaman 2 trailer attended by IGN, the DC filmmaker teased that Jason Momoa isn’t quite finished with Aquaman, and that there could still be another film yet to come.
“The Jason Momoa story as Aquaman definitely has more places to go,” he said. “Where we go at the end of this movie, it does tee up something bigger. Not bigger, but it does tee up a direction for that story, and I don't want to speak to that just because it's the end of the movie.”
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom stars Momoa as Arthur Currie aka Aquaman. Now the King of Atlantis, Aquaman is forced to turn to an unlikely ally to save his kingdom: none other than his brother, Orm (Patrick Wilson). The return of Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) spells disaster, and with his discovery of a powerful new Black Trident, it looks as though Aquaman is going to need all the help he can get.
“Having failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all,” says the film’s synopsis. “This time Black Manta is more formidable than ever before, wielding the power of the mythic Black Trident, which unleashes an ancient and malevolent force. To defeat him, Aquaman will turn to his imprisoned brother Orm, the former King of Atlantis, to forge an unlikely alliance. Together, they must set aside their differences to protect their kingdom and save Aquaman’s family, and the world, from irreversible destruction.”
How this sets up a third movie remains to be seen, but it sounds as though Wan himself has a solid idea to go forward, despite the DCEU being effectively canned after James Gunn and Peter Safran took over as DC co-CEOs.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom heads to theaters on December 20, 2023.
IGN’s Aquaman review gave it 7.5/10 and said: “Aquaman is one hell of a popcorn movie – a fun time and a big bet for the DC movie universe that pays off in creating an exciting new realm for future installments to hopefully explore further. Wan’s geeky epic is chock-full of ridiculous elements and, on paper, it really shouldn’t work as well as it does, but it’s all so inherently weird and brazenly bonkers that the siren call of this giddy, otherworldly romp is hard to resist.”
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Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
