Warner Bros. has announced theAquaman 2release date, confirming that a sequel will indeed be swimming into theaters on July 28, 2025. This was wholly expected, as directorJames Wan’sAquamansurpassed all expectations and soared to a worldwide box office of over $1.1 billion. It quickly became the highest grossing film of the “DC Extended Universe”, which encompasses every movie made sinceMan of Steel. Yes, the fish man movie made more money than the movie starring Batman and Superman, the two most iconic characters in comics history.
We learned last month that Warner Bros. was already developing anAquamansequel, but Wan has distanced himself from jumping right into the follow-up, maintaining that he’d like to wait until the script is right. Earlier this month, word broke thatDavid Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, one of the co-writers onAquaman, had been tapped to pen the script forAquaman 2. Now Warner Bros. apparently feels bullish enough on his take that they’re ready to stake their claim on the release calendar, although they’re giving themselves a lot of runway to get it right.
Currently the only other film scheduled for release on August 18, 2025 is an untitled Disney Live-Action film. That release date makes a lot of sense, as the pre-Christmas corridor proved incredibly fruitful for the firstAquamaneven as skeptics predicted the film would be overshadowed by family fare likeMary Poppins Returnson Christmas. Quite the opposite occurred, andAquamanis now impossibly Warner Bros.’ most popular DC franchise.
To that end, Warner Bros. is separately developing a horror-tinged spinoff calledThe Trench, set in—you guessed it—the trench. Wan is producing that one, and it’ll carry a lower budget than the mainAquamanfilm. As forJason Momoa’s future, right now DC seems laser focused on its individual properties and has no plans for aJustice Leaguesequel—or really even much interconnectivity— so I wouldn’t expect him to pop up again onscreen in a DC untilAquaman 2.
Next up on Warner Bros.’ DC release slate is the comedy-tingedShazam!in April, followed by theJoaquin Phoenix-ledJokerin October, the female team-up movieBirds of Preyin February 2020, the highly anticipated sequelWonder Woman 1984in June 2020, and at long last the rebootThe Batmanin June 2021. For a complete look at upcoming DC movies,click here.
