Israeli actress Gal Gadot engages in fierce action sequences in the new Wonder Woman trailer, which Warner Bros. premiered during the San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. The director confessed that she is a super fan of the Wonder Woman character.
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“You’re a man”, says an amazed Diana Prince in the first few seconds of the Wonder Woman trailer. Note the sword nestled in the back of her dress.
But the new trailer includes just about everything you could ask for in a Wonder Woman movie. “And I think the same is true of our Diana”. And it definitely looks like a blend of good old fashioned war epic and superhero movie: at this stage, genre-mashing is entirely welcome.
And from there, the film directed by Patty Jenkins appears to become an all-out war movie, as the Amazon warrior becomes involved in World War I. Jenkins provides some powerful, comic book-type imagery of the character in battle. It ends with the introduction of Lucy Davis as Etta Candy, describing the duties of a secretary with Wonder Woman saying, “Where I come from, that’s called slavery”.
It is until an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world. However, with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, we finally have ourselves a Wonder Woman in a major blockbuster and, at long last, a Wonder Woman standalone film. Diana decides that she must leave her handsome home, determined to help and put an end to this awful war.
Scripted by Geoff Johns and Allan Heinberg, with a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder, the film also stars Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, and Saïd Taghmaoui. This jet is not going to be in the film, however, given that Wonder Woman can fly.
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Wonder Woman opens in cinemas on 2 June 2017.
