De acordo com o Produtor Charles Roven na Warner Brothers, Aquaman acontece após Liga da Justiça .
James [Wan] definitely knows where he’s going with [Aquaman], and that movie takes place in a world where Justice League happened, and Man of Steel happened, and Wonder Woman obviously takes place before Man of Steel — except for the bookends we have. So that’s where we have the most ability to freeform. We could do a movie that takes place after Justice League, we can do a movie that takes place after Batman v Superman… well not really. You can’t do a movie in between Batman v Superman and Justice League, but we can do movies that take place after Justice League and we can do movies that precede Justice League.
No entanto, também é dito que há uma história de origem apresentada em Aquaman e, portanto, há alguns flashbacks .