By Following her comments about getting back onboard the “Star Wars” film “Rogue Squadron” at Lucasfilm, filmmaker Patty Jenkins has also spoken about that other project she was linked to and is no longer – “Wonder Woman 3”.
Appearing on TCM’s Talking Pictures podcast, she confirms she is done making “Wonder Woman” movies for DC, saying fairly definitively: “Yeah, for the time being, or easily forever. Easily forever, yeah.”
Jenkins exit coincided with the arrival of James Gunn and Peter Safran as the new DC Studios chiefs who are now redoing the company’s slate to be a new interconnected universe – leaving behind the DCEU era in which the Gal Gadot-led “Wonder Woman” films were born.
Jenkins indicates Warner Bros. Pictures isn’t interested in doing more with the character for now, and has sympathy for the difficulty of the ambitious plans Gunn and Safran are trying to achieve:
“No, they’re not interested in doing any Wonder Woman [films] for the time being. Listen, it’s not an easy task what’s going on with DC. James Gunn and Peter Safran have to follow their own heart into their own plans, so I don’t know the ‘why’ of what they’re planning on doing and why, and so I have sympathy for what a big job it is. They have to follow their heart and do what they’re interested in and do what they’ve got planned.”
Jenkins also reflected on the negative reaction to “Wonder Woman 1984,” citing the backlash as being partly due to the success of the first film and feminism:
“I could feel the heat on my back and I thought, ‘Oh, they’re gonna be gunning for us soon, what goes up must go down. So I went in to making ‘Wonder Woman 84’ going, ‘Uh, they’re gonna kick the s— out of us in one way or another.’ And the sad thing was I think we would’ve made a kajillion, trillion dollars because we were the number 1 selling DVD for a year and a half, but if it hadn’t come out in the middle of the pandemic…”
The second film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $170 million worldwide against a production budget of $200 million. That’s a far cry from the first film’s almost universal praise and gross of $824 million from a $149 million budget.
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