“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” has faced one looming question since the very beginning: How do you follow up a $1.1 billion-grossing superhero blockbuster in a moviegoing world forever changed by a pandemic — and under a studio whose identity has evolved from the bottom up.
Ask director James Wan, and he’ll say that it’s a matter of staying the course. In an interview published Wednesday with Entertainment Weekly, Wan said that despite the obvious variables that weren’t in play five years ago, his plan for the sequel film in the DC Extended Universe has remained the same since the beginning.