“Aquaman” pushed back

“Aquaman” won't surface until Christmas of 2018, Warner Bros. said on Thursday. The comic book adaptation is swimming from an October 5 release date to December 21 of that year. It will open on the day that “Avatar 2” was originally slated to debut. The James Cameron-directed sequel has been delayed multiple times as the exacting filmmaker tinkers with his latest cinematic excursion into Pandora.

Jason Momoa, best known for his work as Khal Drogo in the HBO series “Game of Thrones”, stars in “Aquaman” as the titular merman. James Wan (“The Conjuring”) directs.

Warner Bros. also announced that “Horse Soldiers” will debut on January 19, 2018. The film follows a team of CIA agents as they try to break up the Taliban in the wake of 9/11. Chris Hemsworth heads up a cast that includes Trevante Rhodes, Michael Shannon, and Michael Pena.