Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom recently shifted to a Christmas Day 2023 release, meaning the wait for the sequel is now considerably longer than we ever anticipated. After all, it had originally been shifted from next March to this year, though Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly doesn't have enough money to promote more than a few titles in what remains of 2022.
There are rumblings that CEO David Zaslav has reservations about the movie, so we wouldn't actually be overly surprised if some additional photography takes place before next December.
Regardless, star Jason Momoa has moved on to Fast X and other projects, and clearly won't have Arthur Curry's long hair in time for any impending reshoots! As you can see below, the actor has decided to cut his trademark locks off in order to raise awareness about an issue that clearly means a lot to him.
To protect the continued use of single-use plastics and the damage they're having on the environment, he says, "I'm shaving off the hair...[I'm] doing it for... single-use plastics. I'm tired of these plastic bottles. We gotta stop. Plastic forks, all that shit. It just goes into our land, into our ocean."
The Justice League star concludes by saying he's recently seen "some things in our ocean that are just so sad," encouraging his Instagram followers to do what they can to reduce the use of single-use plastics.
We can't wait to see Momoa's new look and more from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. There's no way a movie that big is being cancelled, so it should at least arrive in theaters as planned next Christmas. Whether Amber Heard will still be in it by that point...well, we'll have to wait and see.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom splashes down into theaters on December 25, 2023.