Aquaman: 10 Major New Details We Just Learned

3. It's A Quest Movie For A Trident

Aquaman King Orm
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Aquaman's weapon in Justice League wasn't the traditional trident fans are used to seeing the character wield, but instead a quindent, which raised the question of whether that was simply the DCEU's replacement version or if an actual trident would be introduced later.

It turns out it's the latter, and that it's the central component of this movie's plot, which will be a quest to find the Trident of King Atlan, the first King of Atlantis. Production Designer Bill Brzeski told IGN:

"It's kinda like Gladiator stuff. But you need this trident. Because the trident is the original, it's like the Excalibur story, you got Excalibur, you can run the knights of the roundtable. Well, it's the same thing here. With this trident, he can now talk to all the animals.”

That hunt for the trident will be like a race between Aquaman and Orm, with the person who gets it becoming the King of Atlanta.

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