A new report over at Variety about both the future of DC and cost-cutting measures at Warner Bros. Discovery has revealed James Wan’s upcoming sequel “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” has gone past its original budget.
The report says that prior to James Gunn and Peter Safran taking charge at DC Studios, Warner Bros. co-chief Pam Abdy had to tell Wan to reduce his reshoot budget as the film had already gone over the planned $205 million budget outlay.
The film is one of the legacy DC titles that Gunn and Safran have to shepherd to cinemas whilst still creating their own film universe. It indicates that should reshoots and tweaks be required to fit the existing “Aquaman” films into this new universe, it could “easily cost millions more”.
Thus the new “Aquaman” is likely to stand alone from that DC sea change which isn’t expected to show off any potential results until at least 2024 at the absolute earliest.
“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” was originally intended for release this month, but delays have pushed it back a full year to next Christmas.
