Forget Aquaman: Let's baselessly speculate about what the rest of the Justice League has been doing all year
2018 has been a shockingly sparse year for DC superhero movie output; Warner Bros. has yet to unleash even a single DCEU entry since 2017's Justice League, and the next film on the companies’ schedules, Aquaman, won’t arrive in theaters until December. Which raises the question: What have all these superpowered slackers been up to for the last year?
Not helping out Aquaman, certainly; that’s per director James Wan, who made it clear recently that his upcoming film will be a standalone affair. “I wanted to keep the story to the world of Aquaman and not have to worry about what other characters are doing in their films and how that would affect us,” Wan told Entertainment Weekly, hinting at one of the ongoing frustrations of this whole “shared cinematic universe” thing. Instead, the film will focus solely on Jason Momoa’s underwater action, as he battles folks like Orm and Black Manta, and attempts to prove that there’s more to his character than a wetter, less funny Thor.
Still, though: What the hell has the rest of the League been doing with their year (and possibly more) off? Since we don’t actually know anything—the company doesn’t have another big crossover movie on the books yet, and seems to be waiting to see the reception to Aquaman before it makes any more big moves—the responsible thing would probably be to withhold judgment, at least until Warner Bros. clarifies what its next move might be.
Anyway, here’s some baseless speculation, instead: