Jason Momoa & Aquaman 2 Director Fought To Keep Amber Heard In DC Movie
A new witness in the star's ongoing defamation trial has revealed that Jason Momoa and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom director James Wan fought to keep Amber Heard in the film. Heard and Momoa are returning for the DC Extended Universe sequel alongside fellow Aquaman co-stars Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Kidman and Randall Park. James Wan is back at the helm for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom with a script penned by original co-writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick on a story treatment he developed with Momoa.
Development on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has seen a rollercoaster of starts and stops with Wan wanting to take his time to develop the sequel rather than deliver a rushed product and having to work around the COVID-19 pandemic during production. With post-production on the film's visual effects taking longer than expected due to said global shutdowns, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom's release date was delayed from its original December 2022 release date, swapping places with the similarly long-awaited Shazam! Fury of the Gods and moving to March 2023. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom's latest hurdle as come in the form of Amber Heard's ongoing defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp and further details regarding the behind-the-scenes conflicts have arisen.
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As the defamation trial continues between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, industry insider Kathryn Arnold shared new details regarding the extent of Heard's role in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (via The Wrap). Arnold testified that Heard was not invited to partake in the shoot for the film's poster and was told she wasn't
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