Aquaman will most likely cross another Box Office benchmark

Warner Bros. has hired David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick to write a sequel to Aquaman, according to TheWrap.

Recall that we told you it would be called The Trench, with the screenplay to be developed by Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald. James Wan is returning as a producer (along with Peter Safran) and presumably returning as director of Aquaman.

Industry observers (neither are we) aren’t exactly shocked by the news of a sequel beginning the development process, for as Scott Mendelson writing for Forbes notes: “Aquaman is a few days away from, sans inflation or exchange rates, becoming the fourth-biggest non-Disney/non-Universal release of all time.”

Mendelson continues: “With $1.121 billion worldwide, it is just behind Paramount/Viacom’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($1.1214b in 2011). Once it passes Transformers 3, it’ll be behind only Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II ($1.43b in 2011), Fox and Paramount’s Titanic ($2.1b, counting the 2012 reissue) and Avatar ($2.78b in 2009/2010). It’s already WB’s second-biggest grosser ever behind Harry Potter 7.2.”

It’s noteworthy that Aquaman owns part of its success to Chinese cinemagoers where it made nearly $300m in the box office after opening with a record $90m.

 

 

As for the upcoming sequel, personally, I can’t wait for it to arrive if the first Aquaman is anything to go by. It was fun, fast-paced and the camera work is fantastic. And Wan (the director) knows exactly how to put the audience in the middle of the action. And with the box-office raking, it’s no brainer that Warner Box is putting out a sequel so soon.

 

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