How ‘Aquaman’ Director James Wan Created the Underwater World: Rigs, Wigs and Visual Effects

“If I was going to play in this arena for the first time, I wanted to make sure that I give it my all and so I would agonize with my visual effects team over every single shot,” director tells TheWrap

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James Wan is best known for his low-budget horror hits like “Saw” and “The Conjuring,” but most recently, he took on a $200-million project, “Aquaman,” in which he had to create a whole new underwater world.

“If I was going to play in this arena for the first time, I wanted to make sure that I give it my all and so I would agonize with my visual effects team over every single shot — how it looks, how things moved, to like the tiniest sort of detail that an audience might not even pay attention to,” Wan said in a Q&A with TheWrap.

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