“A lot of other great filmmakers have been messing around with other, and that’s awesome too, but I’m so happy for her success and for getting to it.
“It’s so great that it’s Wonder Woman leading the way,” says Jenkins. After all, 2017’s “Wonder Woman” quickly emerged as the critical and commercial jewel in DC’s current cinematic crown. Even when it came time to think about a sequel, that wasn’t a quality she wanted to change. They face new villains Maxwell Lord (“The Mandalorian’s” Pedro Pascal) and the Cheetah (Kristen Wiig), and take on a crisis that threatens to plunge the entire world into chaos.įor Jenkins, Wonder Woman’s appeal remains her dedication to always doing the right thing.
“Wonder Woman 1984" reunites the heroine with her long lost love Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), mysteriously resurrected more than 70 years after his death. Whether viewers are watching at home, at a drive-in or socially distanced at a theater, seeing Diana Prince back on track is sure to provide welcome escapism after a brutal year. I certainly hope that, once the pandemic is over, things will go back on track.” I can’t see studios making tentpole movies just for the streamers because it’s a 360 experience to go to a theater and experience that. I hope that, once the pandemic is over, all these wonderful big movies with great filmmakers and stars will go to theaters. “But in pandemic times, you just don’t know. “Before the pandemic, I would’ve flipped out and had a tantrum and fought super hard” for a traditional theatrical release, she says. For Gadot, who is in the midst of a flurry of press to promote the release, the important thing is not where audiences will catch up with Wonder Woman, but the fact that the film is coming out at all. Pictures / DC Comics)īut despite all the industry drama, nothing about what audiences will see in “Wonder Woman 1984,” which wrapped production in 2018, is any different than they would have seen this summer. Instead, in a sign of how swiftly the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the industry upside down, “Wonder Woman 1984" will become the first tentpole title to premiere in theaters and at home simultaneously when it hits the streaming platform HBO Max on Christmas Day in the U.S. Disney’s “Mulan” would have opened in March.) (Marvel had “Black Widow” scheduled for May, followed by “The Eternals” in November. And it would have played a central role in what looked like a watershed year for female-directed tentpole movies. Originally scheduled for release in June, “Wonder Woman 1984" was seen as one of summer’s surefire hits.Įxpectations were so high that industry observers forecast it would gross $1 billion worldwide, besting the $800-million-plus global gross of the original. Three years after the DC Comics icon became the first female superhero to headline a contemporary blockbuster, a much anticipated sequel reunites breakout star Gal Gadot with powerhouse director Patty Jenkins. Wonder Woman is breaking new ground yet again.
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