While Aquaman is already set to make an appearance in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, Warner Brothers is hoping to expand the character into his own film. Two scripts are going to be written by two different writers: Will Beall (Gangster Squad) and Kurt Johnstad (300: Rise of an Empire). Why two? Warner Brothers is using a dual-track development method in which two writers make different scripts in hopes that one will turn out to be best. It’s not entirely unheard of as this method was previously used on Bad Santa. It’s not exactly a confident method, but a quick way to get a lot of content fast. Aquaman is currently set to be played in the two upcoming DC films by Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones). It’s still too early to tell what date the film will be set for even with Warner Brothers announcing a slew of release dates for untitled DC projects. Why the interest in Aquaman? Apparently director Zack Snyder (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice) digs the character based on how he defended him during a radio interview:
You guys were disparaging, a little bit, Aquaman…I don’t want to give anything away about the movie or anything like that but Aquaman has some cool abilities. People are like, “Oh what? Does he talk to animals? Cause that seems like what he does. Or fish?” The cool thing with Aquaman is his Trident. So you have to realize that could cut the flesh of Superman if they came in contact. That’s a thing that’s in the canon. He’s super strong cause of course he can exist at these super deep depths so when he comes up here he’s crazy strong. Anyway, not to say he’s in my movie or anything like that but he has the potential to be bad ass, that’s all I’m saying.
Source: THR