Aquaman And Vulko
If you aren’t a hardcore DC nut, you’d be forgiven for being left completely lost during Arthur Curry’s trip to Atlantis in Justice League. The sequence does a very quickfire job of telling you everything you need to know about Aquaman’s origins, but it sounds like this would have been more elegantly explored in the original cut. For one, we would have seen the introduction of Willem Dafoe’s Aquaman character, Vulko, an Atlantean scientist.
According to Jason Momoa, Vulko would have acted as Arthur’s anchor to Atlantis, which he feels ostracized from due to his mother, Queen Atlanna, abandoning him as a child. These scenes would have made clear that his insecurities about where he comes from have caused his attitude problems.
“Vulko’s his connection to Atlantis. I think what Zack [Snyder] and I did, we were kind of trying to establish that he was taken down there as a boy, and he was an outcast, he was a half-breed, and he was built up as a young boy, because he was fed all these ideas by Vulko — that he was the rightful king. And he gets down there, and he’s a half breed, he’s impure, and I’m just made to feel like I’m this disease. So after that, I was like, ‘fuck you, fuck you, I’m on my own.’”
As interesting as these scenes would have been, the silver lining here is that we’re guaranteed to get more between these characters in the very next DC movie, Aquaman, which is coming next December.
