Aquaman’s Last Stand Begins in the ‘Lost Kingdom’ Trailer

The DC Extended Universe has reached its conclusion, and it has been a bit of a bumpy road getting there — or perhaps saying the seas have been choppy would be more accurate in this case. That’s because the final entry in this cinematic universe turns out to be Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to what turned out to be, somewhat surprisingly, the single highest grossing DC movie in history: 2018’s Aquaman, which grossed north of $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office. After this second Aquaman film, the DCEU will be retired, and a new cinematic universe will launch in the months ahead, under the stewardship of new DC co-ceos James Gunn and Peter Safran. In this sequel, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman returns — but, alas, so does his mortal enemy, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). And Manta wants Aquaman’s young son, forcing the watery hero and his allies (which now includes his estranged brother Orm (Patrick Wilson)) into a “last stand,” as the trailer puts it.