Wonder Woman under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios hasn’t hung up her lasso.
“We’re working on Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman‘s being written right now,” Gunn told EW today.
DC didn’t comment on who exactly is writing the new Wonder Woman. Gunn hasn’t yet cast the role of who’ll play Princess Diana of Themyscira.
That’s a big deal. When Gunn and Safran took over the reigns of DC back in late 2022, they essentially began unplugging from the Zack Snyder created DC universe. One of those projects not to move forward was Patty Jenkins’ third Wonder Woman movie which wasn’t up to snuff.
In addition Gunn said today, that the new “Wonder Woman‘s a separate thing” to the already announced Paradise Lost HBO/Max series, which is “slow moving, but it’s moving,” per the Superman and Guardians of the Galaxy franchise filmmaker.
Gunn also confirmed what was blurted out by Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav during last month’s earnings call; that Superman, Batman, Supergirl and Wonder Woman were lynchpins to Gunn and Safran’s DC.
“I think that’s accurate, actually,” Gunn told EW.
“I think that he got that from something I said. I wouldn’t say only those four characters, but I would say that those four characters are incredibly important to us. Right now, I feel great about where two of those characters are, and then we’re dealing with the other two.”
The Paradise Lost HBO Max series was first announced by Gunn and Safran when the first unveiled their vision for DC aka “Gods and Monsters” in early 2023. Set on Wonder Woman’s home planet Themyscira, Gunn billed Paradise Lost as “Game of Thrones with Westeros but with all the inhabitants of Paradise Island.” No announced scribes yet for Paradise Lost.
As of August 2023 on a press tour for the Netflix movie Heart of Stone, Gadot exclaimed “I was invited to a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran [co-chairperson and CEO of DC alongside Gunn] and what they told me, and I’m quoting: ‘You’re in the best hands. We’re going to develop Wonder Woman 3 with you. [We] love you as Wonder Woman— you’ve got nothing to worry about.’ So time will tell.” At the time of her comments, DC told Deadline that Wonder Woman 3 wasn’t in the works.
After getting her treatment pulled, Jenkins told the press that when it came to the threequel, “I never walked away. I was open to considering anything asked of me.”
Wonder Woman 3 was promptly announced in the wake of the theatrical day-and-date tanking of Wonder Woman 1984, which grossed $170M WW, $47M U.S. when many theaters around the globe were closed. Warners held the movie through the pandemic but decided to go theatrical and on HBO Max at Christmas 2020 as the first title in the Jason Kilar-run WarnerMedia HBO Max dynamic window experiment. The first Wonder Woman in 2017, also directed by Jenkins, was a box office revolution for a movie directed by a female, earning over $822M around the globe.
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