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Directed by | James Wan |
Produced by | Peter Safran,Rob Cowan |
Screenplay by | David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrickWill Beall |
Story by | Geoff Johns, James Wan Will Beall |
Based on | Aquaman by Mort Weisinger,Paul Norris |
Starring | Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,Nicole Kidman |
Music by | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
Cinematography | Don Burgess |
Edited by | Kirk Morri |
Production company | Warner Bros. Pictures DC Films The Safran Company Cruel and Unusual Films Mad Ghost Productions |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | November 26, 2018(Leicester Square)December 21, 2018(United States) |
Running time | 143 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $160–200 million |
Box office | $751.8 million |
Aquaman is a 2018 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, and distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures. It is the sixth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by James Wan, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, from a story by Geoff Johns, Wan and Beall, it stars Jason Momoa as the title character, with Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman in supporting roles. It is the third live-action theatrical film featuring Aquaman, following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), and the first full-length feature film centered around the character. In Aquaman, Arthur Curry, the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, must step forward to lead his people against his half-brother, Orm, who seeks to unite the seven underwater kingdoms against the surface world.
Development of an Aquaman film began in 2004, with several plans falling through over the years. In August 2014, Beall and Kurt Johnstad were hired to write two competing scripts and the film was officially announced in October 2014. Wan signed on as director in April 2015 and in July 2016 it was announced the film would move forward with Beall’s screenplay, although Wan, Johnstad, Johns and Johnson-McGoldrick all performed various rewrites. The main cast was confirmed throughout 2016 and early 2017. Principal photography began in Australia on May 2, 2017. Most of the film was shot at Village Roadshow Studios in Gold Coast, Queensland, with production also held in Canada, Italyand Morocco. Filming wrapped on October 21, 2017.
Aquaman had its world premiere in London on November 26, 2018, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures in Real D 3D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX and IMAX 3D on December 21, 2018, and has grossed over $751 million worldwide, making it the seventh highest-grossing film of 2018. The film received praise for its adventurous tone, Wan’s direction and the performances of Momoa, Heard and Kidman, although criticism was drawn to the convoluted plot and the runtime.
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