Wonder Woman 1984 visit: Why the sequel is a standalone one
Today, Warner Bros. Pictures release a new trailer for the highly anticipated Wonder Woman 1984 during their 24-hour DC FanDome event. During our visit to the London shooting of the film in August 2018, the filmmakers, including director Patty Jenkins and producer Charles Roven, explained why the film should be considered a standalone that is not necessarily intertwined with the rest of the DC Extended Universe.
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“We’re making a second film,” said producer Charles Roven bluntly. “We do not want to call it a sequel, because it is so different. One of the things you need to be careful of is not to compensate. We always want to try to surpass the ones we did before and make it better and more interesting and exciting and still have the taste of the first. It’s a high beam, but you can not allow yourself to be so intimidated by that beam that you actually compensate too much. I think that’s the tricky thing. ”
In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was suggested that Wonder Woman had been hiding in the shadows of human society for decades after the death of Steve Trevor, but in Justice League became clear that she entered DID when she needed to. Wonder Woman 1984 will reinforce that idea, including a sequence at the beginning of the film where she slams through a skylight in a mall to stop a heist. She does it all with a wink and a smile without casualties.
“She was involved with the Men’s World when she needed it,” said star / producer Gal Gadot. ‘She does not really want to make a close connection with anyone, because she knows that either she will hurt her, because she will disappear in one day, or she will lose her because she grows old. So after the loss of Steve and the whole team later, I think Diana is in a place where she is happy where she is. She’s pretty lonely, but she made the decision to do so. She goes to the world when it’s necessary, but she’s not perfect, you know what I mean? She has problems. ”
In terms of how the events of this movie, that pre-date Man of Steel and the other films that follow will have an impact on the larger DCEU than even the irreplaceable one Wonder Woman 3, Jenkins emphasizes that was never even considered despite the fact that DCEU architect Geoff Johns co-wrote the script. However, she promised a few links to the larger universe!
“Geoff is such a great writer and such a great partner and he has no agenda in the bigger picture like that,” Jenkins said. ‘I went to him and talked to him about this story, and we were both just excited about telling this exact story. There are small things, but those things come secondary to the story. I’m not a big fan of doing chapter two of a seven chapter story. That’s just not my jam. I feel like that can happen in the background, but every movie I want to make has to be its own great movie. That I have my own ideas about what her overarching arc is, of the whole thing, but it’s the story first. ‘
“Patty and I do not know what will happen in the future because we do not even know where this could go,” Roven added. ‘She wanted to make sure we had the character in a universe that was standalone so that we could continue her character without having to weave the other characters that could influence how we make other films. We just wanted to make sure we could deal with their themes. You do not have to worry about anything this movie posts. Although Steve Trevor ends up in this movie, Diana still has to deal with everything that happens to Steve Trevor from 1984 to 2017. You just have to see where he ends up at the end of this movie, right? All the events of this movie fall for ‘Justice League’, they fall for ‘Man Of Steel’. So you can see it as independent, because these things are irrelevant, because the whole time frame happens in Themyscira, a place where time does not exist, and then between Armistice Day until the end of this movie, which still in 1984. “
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Of course, all this was said in 2018, shortly after the disappointment of the box office Justice League and for the worldwide success of Aquaman and the fan writing that would eventually bring us Justice League by Zack Snyder and the return of Batfleck in The Flash. Is it possible that more connective tissue is added in WW84 since this? Absolutely, but we’ll have to wait until the movie opens on October 2, 2020!
