She’s Back! WB Reveals First Look at ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
The highly anticipated Wonder Woman 1984 kicked off an epic DC Films line up at SDCC this morning.
Gal Gadot and Chris Pine joined director Patty Jenkins on stage to thunderous applause.
For anyone hoping we’d learn just how Steve Trevor is around in 1984, Pine wasn’t spoiling. Joking “[I’m] not even really here, I’m just an aura of emotional support for my pals,” which prompted Gadot to call him the movie’s “water girl.”
Discussing the movie’s setting, Jenkins explain;
“It was mankind at it’s best and worst. We’re aware of things now that we weren’t in the 80s, but at the same time there were some of the worst. It’s us at our most extreme.”
Fans in attendance were then treated to the first ever footage from what is arguably DC’s most anticipated movie of 2019.
The footage showed Wonder Woman taking on armed opponents in an extremely 80s looking mall food court. After saving a little girl, she crushes their guns before lassoing them. Diana then exits, jumping from the top floor and running down a city street.
It’s said that during the footage Diana’s costume looked brighter and more vibrant before, as it did in the first image released for the movie.
It truly is a new era for DC Films. When asked by a fan how she planned to build on the first film’s success, Gadot explained;
“The way we look at this is not a sequel, it’s a new chapter, it’s a new story.”
Jenkins concurred;
“I never want to do more of anything for the wrong reason. I don’t want to go to that place of ‘how do you keep it going and cash in?’ in my head. I have these characters that I love and this world that I love, and we can make a whole new movie that’s completely unique and as strong as the first one. Of course I want to do that. But it’s not ‘more’ of anything even though it’s evocative of the everything that happened in the first one.”
Before leaving the stage, Jenkins once again paid tribute to Superman: The Movie director Richard Donner, calling him both an influence to her and crediting him as the creator of the superhero genre.
Wonder Woman 1984 opens November 2019
Panel details are thanks to CBR and JoBlo’s live coverage of SDCC.
Chris is a lifelong fan of Disney, Star Wars and super heroes who can’t quite believe this golden age of movies and TV we’re living in. Having written blogs dedicated to Disney’s Aladdin musical and Star Wars Celebration, Chris is excited to be part of the MNN team.
