Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is being released exclusively in theaters later this month, and it is expected the final movie of the Snyderverse era. The film sees the return of James Wan in the director’s chair in addition to Jason Momoa as the titular hero, Patrick Wilson as Orm, Amber Heard as Mera, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta, and more. Some new photos were just released from the sequel, including stills from the film as well as shots of Wan directing the stars.

“The technology just in general advances with each passing year,” Wan previously explained to ComicBook.com. “It was just on the first movie to this one. I see a huge leap even in the effects, which is obviously there in your face, but even just the process of how we shoot the film is a bit different. The actors had such a hard time shooting the first one, all this really complex rigging that we had to put them through, and it’s not the best for them when they’re trying to act at the same time, meanwhile they’re doing a lot of pain in these really difficult.”

Wan continued, “So what’s great about this one was I could actually free them up from all that. And my special effects and visual effects team did a really great job with hearing what I had to complain about from the first movie and basically helping me build a process on how to get the same thing that I want, but without putting the actors through all of that, and so therefore I can actually get better performances from them.”