The task of telling that tale now falls to director James Wan, who in turn chose his frequent collaborator, Patrick Wilson, to star opposite Momoa as the DC villain Ocean Master.
Thankfully, his movie villain is already doing his part to build up the rivalry for their own movie showdown… and the next-level villainy that the Aquaman film will bring to the DC movie universe.
Thanks to the release of a brand new trailer, Justice League has claimed the spotlight in the industry’s DCEU coverage (and a new batch of fan theories).
We now know that even then, he had already cast Jason Momoa as Aquaman, having dreamed up a wilder, more medieval warrior story for Arthur Curry.