Australian filmmaker James Wan made a splash in cinema when his debut feature film Saw arrived at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. That film went on to spawn an eight-movie horror franchise and Wan would go on to kick-start even more staples of modern movies and put his fingerprints on even more fan-favorite franchises. Wan would later start the Insidious franchise with Blumhouse in 2010, debut the first chapter in the now billion dollar Conjuring franchise in 2014, and directed Furious 7 in 2015. Now, he’s rolled up his sleeves and he’s digging into the DCEU.
Though Zack Snyder spearheaded the entire effort with Man of Steel and expanded it with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the thing that brought Wan to the project was how he could make the movie his own.
James Wan was interviewed by Collider and was asked about how Aquaman is different than Batman v Superman and what Zack Snyder did before. He was also asked about the tone and the look that he was going for with the movie.
“I feel like the good thing about having something that isn’t really established is I get the opportunity to kind of set the world, set the tone, and set the flavor for who this guy is and the world that he lives in,” Wan tells Collider. “I think what I liked most about this character, and actually what Jason Momoa brings to it, is the idea that this is a guy who’s kind of trapped between two worlds. He doesn’t feel like he belonged in the surface world, but he doesn’t feel like he belongs in the world of Atlantis as well…It gives him more color than just a very clean cut superhero, right? And he’s not just sort of out there to just defeat bad guys strictly for that.”
James Wan’s Aquaman will dive into theaters on December 21.
Source: Collider
