Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom reportedly cut a subplot that would have explained Willem Dafoe’s absence in the DC Extended Universe sequel as the title character’s general advisor, Nuidis Vulko.According to trusted scooper MyTimeToShineHello on X, the original cut of the hotly-anticipated Aquaman sequel included “a whole subplot about a virus going rapid in Atlantis and that is what killed Vulko off screen. But I hear that in the most recent cut they screened they removed any mention of it and him.” Dafoe was cast as Vulko for 2017’s Justice League, but his scenes were cut from the theatrical release and later restored in Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021). He reprised the role in 2018’s Aquaman and was originally slated to return for The Lost Kingdom before scheduling conflicts made that impossible.While Dafoe will be missed in the sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom director James Wan confirmed that Vulko’s absence allowed for them to write a larger role for Nicole Kidman’s Atlanna. “Willem is not in this one, no. Part of the reason was because his schedule did not work out for us. But what that allowed me to do was expand on Atlanna’s role,” Wan revealed. “Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) in this one ultimately becomes [her son] Arthur’s advisor. Because Arthur’s not from this world, she helps him better understand the world and the politics of how things work.”RELATED: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Trailer Pits the Superhero Against Black Manta
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom reportedly cut a subplot that would have explained Willem Dafoe’s absence in the DC Extended Universe sequel as the title character’s general advisor, Nuidis Vulko.
According to trusted scooper MyTimeToShineHello on X, the original cut of the hotly-anticipated Aquaman sequel included “a whole subplot about a virus going rapid in Atlantis and that is what killed Vulko off screen. But I hear that in the most recent cut they screened they removed any mention of it and him.” Dafoe was cast as Vulko for 2017’s Justice League, but his scenes were cut from the theatrical release and later restored in Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021). He reprised the role in 2018’s Aquaman and was originally slated to return for The Lost Kingdom before scheduling conflicts made that impossible.
While Dafoe will be missed in the sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom director James Wan confirmed that Vulko’s absence allowed for them to write a larger role for Nicole Kidman’s Atlanna. “Willem is not in this one, no. Part of the reason was because his schedule did not work out for us. But what that allowed me to do was expand on Atlanna’s role,” Wan revealed. “Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) in this one ultimately becomes [her son] Arthur’s advisor. Because Arthur’s not from this world, she helps him better understand the world and the politics of how things work.”
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