Just last week, Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, told ComicBook.com that she heard she’d be developing another Wonder Woman film with DC Studios heads Peter Safran and James Gunn. Huzzah! Get out the lasso and call up Steve Trevor!
Or, well, don’t. Variety reported yesterday that there are no plans for Wonder Woman to fly again in the new DC Universe.
Perhaps it’s best if we just imagine Gadot’s version of the character flew off in her invisible jet, never to be heard from again. Wonder Woman 3—with director Patty Jenkins—seemed like it was going to happen, and then Jenkins was no longer on the project, and then James Gunn and Peter Safran stepped in as heads of DC Studios and changed everything up completely. When they announced their slate of new DC projects, the only Amazons to appear were the ones in a series called Paradise Lost that sounds kind of terrible.
Whatever Gunn and Safran have planned, there’s no getting around the fact that DC has not been great with its female characters of late. Between axing the Batgirl movie and whatever went down with Jenkins and WW3, it feels as if they’ve backburnered leading roles for women, especially on the big screen. Harley Quinn is, thankfully, still causing chaos on Max; the Amanda Waller spinoff of Peacemaker is still in the works; and the future slate of films includes a new Supergirl. But at this point, I’ll believe that one when I see a trailer.
