It’s here! One of the most awaited trailers from Comic-Con 2018 is finally out, as Warner Bros took to San Diego Convention Center’s 6500-seater Hall H to show us our first good look at DC’s highly anticipated Aquaman movie directed by James Wan and starring Jason Momoa.
Aquaman releases on December 21, and traces the origin story of the King of Atlantis who we saw for a precious few moments in last year’s Justice League movie. Seeing the new trailer for Aquaman makes us wonder why DC didn’t release this film before it misfired with Justice League. One of the biggest issues with DC’s league of superheroes last year was that film-going audiences did not relate to the characters because of a lack of origin story for a lot of them. Hopefully, Aquaman will wash off some of last year’s misfortune for DC.
The trailer starts off with how a lighthouse keeper and the Queen of Atlantis, Queen Atlanna met and kindled a romance that resulted in the birth of Arthur Curry, a child as much of the land, as that of the water. As a kid, Arthur is seen being bullied for having the ability to communicate with fish. As the bullies tease young Arthur in an aquarium, a shark smacks its head against the glass to scare the bullies away. From that moment on, you know this kid will grow up to be Jason Momoa’s Aquaman with powers to control the mightiest of sea creatures.
We then see a red-headed undersea queen Mera come to fetch a grown Arthur. She warns him of an impending danger and convinces him to come home to Atlantis, which we now get to see in full glory.
There’s a war brewing between the sea and the surface world and Curry must stop it by taking his rightful place as King of Atlantis. Some great underwater CGI action follows in the rest of the trailer as Aquaman fights his brother Orm for the throne, lifts a submarine out from the bed of the sea, battles monsters, jumps out of a flying plane and faces the Black Manta, a bug-eyed villain who was born out of spite for Aquaman and the sea creatures.
The wrath of the Seven seas is coming! Watch the complete trailer below.