We finally got lucky that it got moved back. So we argued about that all year, and I had to drop out of doing a whole limited series and only do the first two episodes, and just race to write an 80-page treatment at the same time as I’m trying to direct the show. I’m so sad I’m not getting that this time. There were plenty of people at the studio who didn’t quite understand or were not very confident in the film: “It’s too funny.” “Is she too soft?” But then on the night of the premiere, everything changed on a dime, and watching people freak out and react to the things I wanted them to react to was amazing. Was it easy to smuggle all of that into the first “Wonder Woman”? You may be embarrassed along the way to learn how to do emotion and sincerity, but I’m not going to stop doing it until I figure out how to.” And so, since the beginning of my career, I made a promise to myself because I was with the cool kids who were at the inception of some of that stuff, and I was like, “I’m not going to do it. I think if you really have ever experienced tragedy or ever experienced love, they’re neither of those things. There’s definitely an attachment to irony and pessimism in our world, which I get, but I don’t believe it’s very courageous. I don’t have to fight for it now, but I have had to fight for it in my career and I always will. Have you had to fight for those moments of sincerity? We could go bomb any country in the world, and it’s not going to stop the clock that’s coming at us in about 40 years. It’s rare to see a superhero movie where triumph is based on more than just the ability to physically defeat someone.Īnd don’t we know better than that now in this world? To me, this was a Trojan horse: I wanted to tick off every box of what you’re looking for in a superhero movie, but actually what I’m hopefully pulling off is a subversion where instead you’re saying to this younger generation that sees these movies, “You have to find the hero within.” I did a couple of things in this movie that everybody said we couldn’t do: Nobody dies, and she wins in the end with a conversation. You’re doing somebody who wants to be that, an immigrant who’s seen those guys in The Wall Street Journal, and so he’s frosting his hair and trying to look like he’s white. You’re not just doing a campy ’80s businessman. But also in this case, we wanted to really do something slightly different. I love the bigness of those ’80s villains, so I was into it. But he’s given a much more sympathetic back story than you might expect. It’s interesting, then, to see Pedro Pascal playing this blond-businessman adversary who at first resembles Donald Trump. Tentpole-starved fans will find much to dig into with “Wonder Woman 1984,” which takes place decades after the first “Wonder Woman.” It’s now the 1980s, and Gal Gadot’s superheroine must tangle with Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), a grasping tycoon who encourages the world’s avarice, and Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), a nerdy nobody who eventually becomes Cheetah, Wonder Woman’s comic-book rival. “However, the more important thing is the movie finding its right audience, who is hungry for that experience.” “It would have been a news story about women making so much money in the box office this year,” said Jenkins, who watched release plans for would-be blockbusters like her film and Niki Caro’s “Mulan” (for Disney) shift after the pandemic forced many theaters to close. 25), promises to be a very different kind of game-changer: Once positioned for a billion-dollar box-office gross, it will now debut on the same day both in theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max, a corporate priority for Warner Bros. The new sequel, “ Wonder Woman 1984” (due Dec. The first “ Wonder Woman” movie, directed by Patty Jenkins, was a cinematic game-changer that proved female superheroes were every bit as mighty as men.
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