Full details on the plot for Wonder Woman 1984 have not been divulged, but the trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel reveals the film will find the titular heroine facing two foes in the form of Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah and Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord. With the origin story now out of the way, Jenkins noted that Wonder Woman 1984 provided her the opportunity to really explore what Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince is capable of, which she couldn’t do in the first film.
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“WW84 gave me a chance to do a lot of things that I couldn’t accommodate in the first movie. I was so happy to tell the Wonder Woman origin story. It was almost her birth, but we really haven’t seen what she is capable of. It is exciting for me to show her at the peak of her strength. But it is also very important that she fights an internal struggle: she is a goddess and tries to help humanity. She is not only someone who fights evil, she tries to show bad people how to improve,” Jenkins explained during an interview with German magazine Geek. However, Jenkins added that she can’t hold anything back with the third Wonder Woman film, saying, “it’s an interesting dilemma. The next one is probably my last Wonder Woman movie, so I have to put everything I want to show there. We have to think carefully.”
Wonder Woman 1984 was originally scheduled to be released in theaters in late 2019 before Warner Bros. decided to push back the release date to June 5, 2020, roughly three years after the original film debuted. However, the coronavirus prompted the studio to delay the release of Wonder Woman 1984 twice, first to August 2020, and currently to October 2020. Recently, Jenkins noted that the pandemic has also affected her approach to the third Wonder Woman film because the storyline was informed by the state of the world before the crisis started.
With Wonder Woman often being credited with giving a boost in quality to the then-struggling DC Extended Universe film franchise, it is exciting to hear Patty Jenkins suggest she has no plans to hold anything back with the third film. Perhaps this means the filmmaker might be able to deliver the rare film trilogy that doesn’t disappoint with the third installment.
Of course, considering how integral Patty Jenkins was to the success of Wonder Woman, fans might find it hard to imagine anyone else at the helm of future films with Diana Prince. After all, it seems unlikely that Warner Bros. would let the franchise completely end with the departure of one director.
Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in theaters on October 2, 2020.
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Source: Geek (Translation via DC Movie News)
