dcmultiverse:

“The opening prologue to the film is very important for me because this shows how mom and dad meet. And why I think it’s important is because… the love story of Arthur and Mera is important, but the love story of mom and dad, and how they meet, and fall in love, is just as important, if not more important. The emotion that we have with those two characters is the sort of the emotional backbone for the whole film.

And my whole movie is sort of built around how Arthur feels because of how Atlantis has kind of has basically … He has a chip on his shoulder with Atlantis because of what he blames Atlantis did to his mother. And so, that is like the backbone for the whole film. And I think, it’s an important thing to kind of lay out, because it sets up the whole movie.” James Wan on the opening scene of Aquaman (2018)