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To say Wonder Woman crushed the box office final Summer could be an understatement. Words like “obliterated” or “demolished” are extra apt, given the film’s record-setting $103.1 million domestic opening and its badass, empowering message. Everyone from Lupita Nyong’o to Chris Hemsworth could not assist however gush about director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot, so it got here as no shock that the Hollywood gods answered all of our prayers with a sequel. A number of superior particulars have been launched to date, so let’s get to it.
The Story
Wonder Woman begins on Diana Prince’s residence island of Themyscira and later strikes to a Europe torn aside by World War I. For the sequel, Jenkins urged bringing the superhero throughout the pond. “The story will take place in the U.S., which I think is right,” the director informed Entertainment Weekly throughout an interview in June 2017. “She’s Wonder Woman. She’s got to come to America. It’s time.” In July, ScreenRant reported that the sequel will be a period piece fairly than set in fashionable instances. In the screenplay developed by Jenkins and DC Entertainment’s Geoff Johns, Diana will apparently face off towards the Soviet Union throughout “the closing days of the Cold War” in the 1980s. Break out the Aqua Net, all people.
While sitting down with Variety in November, Jenkins additional elaborated on the broad strokes of the film. Not solely will it convey Wonder Woman to a deeper, maybe barely darker place, however she additionally hinted at one other nice “love story”:
“It’s really still going to other values of hers, and a similar formula insofar as making a great, enjoyable fun movie but that ultimately in its third act turns some very big issues, and a very big experience that will aim to have slightly more weight and profundity than it has to have. Because that’s a formula that I really like, and I like the idea of taking somebody on a very solid, great journey but that arrives at a bigger question being answered. So it’s like that but because she is Wonder Woman and she’s here now and she’s fully developed, it’s got great fun from the start and great big superhero presence from the start, and is funny and a great love story again and a couple new unbelievable characters who I’m so excited about, who are very different than were in the last movie.”
The Villain
Rumors that Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig may play classic comic book villain Cheetah had been confirmed by Jenkins via Twitter in March 2018. “So excited to confirm the most thrilling news. Yes! It’s true!” Jenkins wrote. “So extremely fortunate to welcome the sensationally gifted Kristen Wiig to our Wonder Woman household. Can’t wait to lastly work with one in every of my favorites. And SO excited by what we now have deliberate. #Cheetah!!! @GalGadot”
In the comics, one in every of Cheetah’s human alter egos is Dr. Barbara Minerva, a British archaeologist who will do virtually something to additional her analysis. One of her jungle expeditions ultimately will get her concerned in an historical ritual that transforms her into Cheetah, who has superhuman energy, pace, sturdiness, agility, and senses, in addition to claws and fangs.
The Returning Cast
Although we initially assumed Chris Pine would not return as Steve Trevor given how his story ends, Jenkins appears to assume in any other case. “All I can say is it was a dilemma,” she told Fandango. “It’s something I hope we don’t talk about in the public [because] I want people to see, but it’s very hard to know which characters will be in the next movie because of the time period, so it’s a big question.” Pine himself additional fueled hypothesis in the similar interview. “The movie’s gotta come out, and then we’ll see,” he mentioned earlier than joking, “What about Wonder Man?”
In the similar ScreenRant report about the sequel’s plot, it was additionally revealed that Pine will return as Steve Trevor, despite the fact that he perishes in an explosion in the last minutes of Wonder Woman. Unless somebody in the DCEU brings him again from the lifeless or travels by time to save him, his function will seemingly be restricted to flashbacks, or he could always show up as Steve’s descendant.
Regardless, main girl Gadot will certainly be again to kick some ass. As far as different characters are involved, making the story set in current day opens up the risk of some cameos from different DC characters (even when Wonder Woman solely bothers with a single, subtle Justice League Easter egg).
The Director
Unlike Gadot, Jenkins was not contractually obligated to return for the second installment of Wonder Woman since Warner Bros. executives solely enlisted her for the one movie. We cannot think about a greater particular person for the job, and clearly neither may the studio. In September, Jenkins signed a landmark deal to direct the sequel, with sources telling Variety that her paycheck was in the $eight million vary. That would make her the highest paid feminine director of all time, if true!
The Release Date
Settle in, you guys, as a result of that is going to be a hell of a protracted wait. Before Warner Bros. can start engaged on a sequel for Diana, it has to launch Aquaman, due out Dec. 21, 2018. That’s why the official date for the sequel is not till Nov. 1, 2019. Will you have the option to maintain out that lengthy?
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