Aquaman starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard has its release date pushed back to December 2018

Published: 19:22 GMT, 17 March 2017 | Updated: 20:16 GMT, 17 March 2017

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Aquaman's release date has been pushed back to December 2018, Warner Bros announced on Friday.

The hotly-anticipated film - which stars Jason Momoa as the titular character - will now be released on December 21, 2018, rather than its previous October release date.

It will now go head to head with Sony's animated Spider-Man movie, taking the place of Avatar 2, which director James Cameron recently revealed wouldn't be able to meet the planned deadline.

Under water: Aquaman's release date has been pushed back to December 2018, Warner Bros announced on Friday. Here is Jason Momoa in character for the film

And despite having to wait a couple of extra months to see Momoa as the fictional superhero, director James Wan tried to soften the blow when he took to social media following the news.

He simply wrote: 'Merry Christmas'.

Meanwhile, leading man Momoa previously teased he's 'never seen anything like' Aquaman.

Overboard: Amber Heard and Jason Momoa attended an Aquaman table-read with co-star Patrick Wilson and director James Wan last year

Mamoa said: 'I read the Aquaman script and let me just put it this way, I've never seen a movie that's anything like this. It's going to be a world that you've never seen before, which is really cool.

'We went to space, we traveled all over different worlds, but we never went underwater.

'So it's just a really cool spin on what's below and it uses a lot of great movies that I already love - whether that be Raiders of the Lost Ark to Star Wars to Lord of the Rings to Romancing the Stone.'

It came from the sea: Heard plays Mera, the wife of Aquaman. Here she is seen in a movie still released from the studio last year

It was added: 'It has a lot of really cool adventure, it's funny and heroic, and there's a lot of different characters and a lot of different worlds that we get to go to. So I've never really seen anything like it.'

The hunky merman admitted the movie was 'the best moment' of his career.

He shared: 'I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table ... This has been the best moment of my career because the superhero roles are letting me get the other roles I want.'

Aquaman - which also stars Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe and Nicole Kidman - is now slated for release on December 21, 2018.