{"id":74456,"date":"2015-04-13T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=74456"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:28:59","slug":"aquaman-movie-director-could-be-fast-and-furious-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/aquaman-movie-director-could-be-fast-and-furious-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaman movie director could be Fast and Furious veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74457\" alt=\"Aquaman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman-600x537.png 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a>With rumours swirling that Phil Lord and Chris Miller are being lined up to direct <strong><em>The Flash<\/em><\/strong>, it&#8217;s now <strong><em>Aquaman<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s turn to enjoy some director rumours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/furious-7-director-james-wan-787542\">THR<\/a> reports that James Wan is being hunted by Warner Bros to direct Jason Momoa in the Justice League staple&#8217;s solo outing. Wan is something of a hot property at the moment having directed <strong><em>Furious 7<\/em><\/strong>, which managed the rare trick of getting good reviews and being a money making machine.<\/p>\n<p>Wan&#8217;s star has only risen in recent years, as the Saw director had great success with Insidious and <strong><em>The Conjuring<\/em><\/strong>. There are a couple of roadblocks; he&#8217;s tied up with <strong><em>The Conjuring 2<\/em><\/strong> right now, and Universal could exercise his contractual obligation to make <strong><em>Fast &amp; Furious 8<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/furious-7-director-james-wan-787542\">THR<\/a> reports that preliminary reports have taken place. Interestingly, there were also rumours that Wan was being lined up to direct <strong><em>Shazam!<\/em><\/strong> after working with Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson on <strong><em>Furious 7<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong><em>Aquaman<\/em><\/strong> is still at the script stage, with two screenplays being written by\u00a0Will Beall\u00a0and\u00a0Kurt Johnstad, with the release date a little over three years away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aquaman will be released in cinemas 27 July 2018.\u00a0<strong><strong>For more on the comics that have inspired the movie, pick up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/100-all-time-greatest-comics.html\">our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros lines up Aquaman director having noticed how good the Fast and Furious movies are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":74457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3942],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Aquaman.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}