I Can"t Believe I Never Realized How Challenging Making The DCEU"s First $1B Movie Really Was Until 1 DC Star"s 2024 Comments

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It turns out that the DCEU"s first billion-dollar movie, Aquaman, was shockingly challenging to make according to one of its stars, and now I"m even more impressed by the efforts of those involved. Aquaman starred Jason Momoa in his first solo DC movie months after his debut in Justice League. At a time when the DCEU was struggling beneath the weight of some surprising critical disappointments, Aquaman smashed it out of the park as the first and only movie in DC"s now-defunct cinematic franchise to rake in more than $1 billion.
The success seemed to mark a turning point for the DCEU as subsequent movies ditched the distinctive monochromatic palette of preceding movies and opted to inject color into its cinematic franchise. As a result, Aquaman was a visual delight, depicting the Kingdom of Atlantis in mesmerizing fashion. This scheme worked well with the movie"s visual effects, as the vast majority of the movie was set underwater, a setting that filmmakers expertly rendered. I"m glad it looked as good as it did because it transpires that a huge amount of effort was put into the process.
Dolph Lundgren's Newest Aquaman Filming Comments Highlight The Challenges Of The Movie Lundgren Revealed The Dizzying Amount Of Takes Required To Film A Scene Close Dolph Lundgren, best known for his breakout role as Ivan Drago in 1985"s Rocky IV, starred in Aquaman as Mera"s father and king of the Xebel tribe, Nereus. His character was pivotal insofar as he supported the movie"s villain, Orm, in his efforts to invade the surface world, before switching sides and offering his allegiance to Arthur Curry. Speaking to Screen Rant at FAN EXPO San Francisco, Lundgren opened up about the filming process and how arduous it was for him and the rest of the cast and crew working on the movie. His full quote is as follows:

Then I show up in Australia, and there"s all scenes where you"re floating; hanging on wires and pretending to be floating because all the underwater scenes are shot in the studio. The only water I saw was the Evian water in the barn that we were drinking for three months. For the first scene, I just had to float off my sea dragon or wherever I"m sitting on and just float over to over here 10 feet. I remember doing 10 takes, 20 takes – I needed 28 takes. I didn"t have one line of dialogue, and I"m like, “G--damnit, am I losing it? Am I this bad?”
And then I remember the next scene was with Willem Defoe, and we did like 40 takes. He forgot half his dialogue, I had to have cotton in my ears just to be able to listen because after a while you’ve tried everything. It turned out James Wan wanted different performances, but it was also because of the visual effects; if it wasn"t just perfect, we had to reshoot. It was very tedious, but also exciting for me to be in a big movie like that.

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