"It's literally a standalone movie. Not because I wasn't open to the idea of potentially another character from the bigger universe, but it just so happens that the roads that these characters go on are not associated with any of the other superhero characters. I keep saying that it would be weird to see Batman in Atlantis, or even Superman for that matter. Wonder Woman might be the only one that feels like they can belong, that they're siblings of some kind. But no, and that's the best way. This way, I can tell my own story and not be affected by what they're doing over there and they're not affected by what I'm doing over here. But we all live in the same space."
"I didn't want it to take place in our world for very much. When it takes place in our world, I want it to be something you don't go to all the time. There's a big set-piece that takes place in a small fishing village off the coast of Sicily. It's not stuff that we see every day. So even that has a heightened romantic quality to it. I really wanted that magic and wonderment, with just that sense of nautical romance in there."
"[The] more I thought about it, the biggest thing that struck me at the time was the fact that we've seen incarnations of the Flash on TV and stuff like that, but we've never really seen an Aquaman movie at all. That part got me very excited. I feel like the landscape is quite littered with a lot of superhero movies, and the opportunities to do something that feels different and looks different, that one has really seen before - it felt like the freshest path into the superhero world."
"He's an advisor to King Orm, and he's also a mentor to Aquaman. You could look at a monitor that was filming in a greenscreen room, with all these elements covered with green fabric and all these reference points, and then you could go to the monitor and see the completed set, but in a rendering that was laid over the live scene. So that was sometimes very helpful. So when you're on this big object that's moving around on the gimbal that's supposed to be a shark - you could actually go to the monitor and see the size of the shark you're on."
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