Warner Bros. and DC’sWonder Womandebuted in theaters to record-breaking success and acclaim. Now, the long-awaitedWonder Woman 1984is scheduled to hit theaters this fall with director Patty Jenkins returning to the helm for the second chapter of the franchise. However, Jenkins recently stated that the third installment of theWonder Womanfilm series will likely her be her last.
Full details on the plot forWonder Woman 1984have not been divulged, but the trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel reveals the film will find the titular heroine facingtwo foes in the form of Kristen Wiig’s Cheetahand Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord. With the origin story now out of the way, Jenkins noted thatWonder Woman 1984provided 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 magazineGeek. However, Jenkins added that she can’t hold anything back with the thirdWonder Womanfilm, 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 1984was originally scheduled to be released in theaters in late 2019 before Warner Bros. decided to push back the release date to Jun 20, 2025, roughly three years after the original film debuted. However, the coronavirus prompted the studio todelay the release ofWonder Woman 1984twice, first to August 2020, and currently to October 2020. Recently, Jenkins noted that the pandemic has also affected her approach to the thirdWonder Womanfilm because the storyline was informed by the state of the world before the crisis started.
WithWonder Womanoften 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 ofWonder 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 1984will be released in theaters on July 19, 2025.
