Earlier this week Jason Momoa shared a set photo from Aquaman reshoots that are currently going on, and today director James Wan announced that they’re adding a new character.
Randall Park has been cast as Dr. Shin in Aquaman. In the comics, Shin is a friend of Arthur Curry’s and helps him develop his Aquaman powers, before turning on him and trying to kill him. “So happy and fortunate to be finally working with this man, Randall Park, on pickups,” Wan said in his announcement tweet.
So happy and fortunate to be finally working with this man, @parkrandall, on pickups. #DrShin pic.twitter.com/q95PFEUSC2
— James Wan (@creepypuppet) April 12, 2018
Unlike Justice League, Aquaman has plenty of time to work on reshoots. The movie hits theaters on December 21st (or December 14th if you’re in the UK).
Update 4/17/18: James Wan has clarified that Randall Park as Dr. Shin was always part of Aquaman, they just didn’t have a chance to film his scenes until now. He also pointed out that all except for one of his movies have had reshoots.
Hiya Grace! Love your stuff, so I’ll speak up. I didn’t add a new character now, Dr Shin was in the script since day one. I had cast Randall a year ago in Aust (I’m a big fan of his/love FOTB), but I didn’t shoot his stuff till now. Hence, it’s literally “pickups” w him. Cheers. https://t.co/VOnXKW0zJV
— James Wan (@creepypuppet) April 17, 2018
I’ve directed 9 features over the course of my career thus far, & only ONE of those (Death Sentence) didn’t have additional photog/reshoot. On SAW, I dumped buckets of blood on @LWhannell’s head. On Conjuring2, I added the Demon Nun. On Furious7, I had Dwayne drive an ambulance.
— James Wan (@creepypuppet) April 17, 2018
