Wonder Woman has never needed to prove herself to haters, but the DC icon did just that a couple weeks back. Diana Prince strutted into cinemas at the start of June with her first live-action standalone, and the feature exceeded all expectations. Both fans and critics continue to rave over the film, leaving some to wonder if Warner Bros. stepped in to ensure the film didn’t mirror previous DCEU reviews. Now, director Patty Jenkins has admitted no such thing happened.
In an interview with Business Insider, the Wonder Woman visionary spoke about her longterm involvement with the feature. When Jenkins was asked if mixed reviews for Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad altered her film’s course, the director said DC Entertainment refrained from doing such a thing.
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“In our case we were incredibly fortunate, DC didn’t ever give me a mandate of tone. And I pitched to Warner Bros. and DC ten years ago, ‘I want to make the origin movie, a la the first Superman with Christopher Reeve. I want to go back and try to do a grand piece of cinema for her.’ So I had been very strong about being excited about that idea, and they really supported it from the start,” Jenkins explained.
“We were already just different. It’s hard to apply anything about one movie to another. So luckily, no. We just carried on. We were like, far away in England making this movie… we just trudged on.
Later, Jenkins said Wonder Woman did evolve as it underwent development, but none of the alterations were made to appease critics. “I said I wanted to make the origin story, and I wanted to make it a great love story, and have humor, and all of those things as well. As far as the logistics of what period that story takes place, or who the villain is… it’s changed plenty,” she stressed.
“But that’s not the point. To me, the spirit of it has remained. And also, it feels to me like the right spirit to do Wonder Woman in anyway. Of course there could be other great versions, but she’s such a clean, grand superhero that I really liked the idea of her eliciting that kind of treatment in a big, classic movie.”
There are dozens of differences between Wonder Woman and its DCEU predecessors, but fans continue to point out one in particular. Wonder Woman has its gritty moments, but it never fails to portray Diana’s pure heroism. The character was born to become a hero, and she does not seek to become one out of revenge or mistaken morality. The film’s heart is what captured moviegoers around the world, and it sets up a new standard for the DCEU moving forward. After all, differences are not always bad, and Jenkins is living proof that buckling down on a heartfelt vision may be exactly what the franchise needs.
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Before she was Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), she was Diana, Princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, Diana meets an American pilot (Chris Pine) who tells her about the massive conflict that’s raging in the outside world. Convinced that she can stop the threat, Diana leaves her home for the first time. Fighting alongside men in a war to end all wars, she finally discovers her full powers and true destiny.
Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins, from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg & Geoff Johns, story by Heinberg & Zack Snyder and Jason Fuchs, and stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Lucy Davis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner and David Thewlis.
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