Patty Jenkins Discusses Essential Qualities Of Wonder Woman
Using Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie (1978) and Steven Speilberg's Indiana Jones film series [...]
Using Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie (1978) and Steven Speilberg's Indiana Jones film series as inspiration, director Patty Jenkins is hoping to infuse that same type of romance, adventure, action, and humor into her upcoming superhero film. And during WonderCon, DC All Access met up with Jenkins and her set stage for what's to come in Wonder Woman.
First off: she was asked to name some of the essential Wonder Woman qualities. "Loving. Kind. Thoughtful. Badass. Powerful. Generous," she replied. "These are all very important."
As for the action scenes, how are they different from what fans have seen before? "Really, every action sequence is from her point of view and for her story," Jenkins explained. "So there was no point in the movie that were ever like, stepped out, and were like 'look at this extravaganza!' It was always, you know, she witnesses a battle on a beach that rocks her world and changes her understanding of what warfare is and then she comes to man's world and she see's a war that everybody says is impenetrable and nothing can be done about it and she says, 'What am I gonna do about it?' So that makes it fun.
"It makes it like everything else I've ever done," she continued. "Because you're just saying, like, 'Here's my character, here's the journey that they're on, how do I wanna experience that and how do you do it?' I think that there are things about that are not what superhero movies are always having to do. [They're] 100% character driven."
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Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
Joining Gadot in the international cast are Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner and Saïd Taghmaoui. Patty Jenkins directs the film from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, story by Zack Snyder and Allan Heinberg, based on characters from DC Entertainment. Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston.
The film is produced by Charles Roven, Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Richard Suckle, with Rebecca Roven, Stephen Jones, Wesley Coller and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with RatPac-Dune Entertainment, an Atlas Entertainment/Cruel and Unusual production, Wonder Woman.
The film will be released on June 2, 2017.
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