‘Wonder Woman 2’ Will Be “Totally Different” Says Patty Jenkins
By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 4, 2018 8:00 am EST
Speaking with ET at the Palm Springs Film Festival, Jenkins (along with Gadot) talked about the whirlwind success of the film, and when the sequel inevitably came up, the director said:
This is so maddeningly vague that it could mean literally anything, but I will say it’s nice that Jenkins is approaching the sequel in terms of using familiar elements in a whole new light. More often than not, sequels can turn out to be clones of the original film, and it’s clear that Jenkins has no interest in that. Instead, she wants Wonder Woman 2 to forge new ground. As for what the story will be about, that’s anyone’s guess. There have been rumors that Wonder Woman 2 will be set in the present-day, and there have also been rumors that the film will take place in the 1980s.
“We’re actually making a totally different film with a lot of the same, similar like things that we love, but it’s its own movie completely, so it’s not ’two’ to us. It’s an entirely new adventure together that we couldn’t be luckier [to do].”
During the ET interview, Jenkins was asked if Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on the 1970s Wonder Woman TV show, might have a part in the sequel. Jenkins wouldn’t entirely commit to the idea, but she certainly seems open to it:
Wonder Woman 2 hits theater November 1, 2019.
“We’ll see…Lynda is one of the dearest people to us, has been a great mentor and dear friend. And we actually desperately tried to get her in the first one and we had the scheduling that couldn’t work, so she’s always been a part of our Wonder Woman family. We won’t say anything yet, but we certainly—there’s no lack of trying.”
