‘Aquaman 2’ Only Had ‘Seven or Eight Days’ of Reshoots, Says James Wan: A ‘Narrative Has Emerged That Is Not Reality’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” director James Wan told Empire magazine for a new cover story that the reshoot process on his latest DC tentpole was not out of the ordinary, despite many reports claiming post-production on the sequel was a disaster and required at least three rounds of reshoots. “We probably did seven or eight days,” Wan clarified about the reshoots, “which is nothing for a movie of this size.

It was just spread out because it’s so hard to get your actors back once you’ve finished the initial shoot.” Wan previously addressed the reshoot rumors in an Entertainment Weekly interview, saying, “We have big actors in this movie, and everyone’s schedule is really hard,.

So, we had to break up our shooting schedule into sections. We’ll shoot a bit here now, because this actor’s available, and then we’ll do another shoot now, because this guy’s available.

People are like, ‘Oh, they’re doing a whole bunch of different shoots!’ No. If we actually combined them all together, it’s actually not that many number of days at all.” In his Empire interview, Wan said that he’s “had to learn to be more Zen in dealing with all the noise” around him given the rampant speculation about “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” A Variety report from earlier this month included claims of Jason Momoa being drunk on set during production, among other claims.