‘Aquaman 2’ Officially In The Works With David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick On Board As Screenwriter
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrickhas permission to come aboardAquaman 2as the superhero sequel’s screenwriter. Warner Bros. has tapped Johnson-McGoldrick, who co-wrote the first film withWill Beall, to pen the script for theAquamansequel, which officially takes its first steps toward development.Deadlinereports that Warner Bros. has hired David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick as the screenwriter forAquaman 2, signaling the sequel’s first stages of development. Johnson-McGoldrick is a trusted collaborator withAquamandirectorJames Wan, co-writingAquamanand penning Wan’sThe Conjuring 2.
But there are still a few steps left in this early development process: the studio still has to sign off on the script, as does Wan. While neither Wan nor Beall have confirmed their return, Johnson-McGoldrick’s hiring indicates that Warner Bros. is full steam ahead on the hit comic book movie’s sequel.
While it’s still too early to tell where the plot ofAquaman 2will go, it’s likely that the sequel will follow up on the arc of Black Manta, whose origin story in the firstAquamannearly stole the scenes from Orm’s (Patrick Wilson) war against the surface world. During the mid-credits scene ofAquaman, we saw the pirate (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) striking up a partnership with Dr. Stephen Shin (Randall Park), a scientist and conspiracy theorist obsessed with the Atlanteans, to get revenge against Arthur.
It’s no surprise that Warner Bros. is riding theAquamanwave. The filmbroke records last monthwhen it raked in $1.085 billion at the box office, nabbingThe Dark Knight Rises’crown for the highest-grossing DC movie ever. Recently, Warner Bros. begun development on anAquamanspin-off titledThe Trench, which would take a horror-focused approach to the best sequence in Wan’s film.
So while it’s still in the early stages ofAquaman 2’s development, we can probably expect the sequel to surf toward our local theaters in the next few years or so.
