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Why It's A Big Deal That Patty Jenkins Is Directing 'Wonder Woman 2'
As of 30 minutes ago, per Variety, Patty Jenkins is officially back on board to helm the sequel to Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman.
The DC Films smash, which earned $411 million domestic and $816m worldwide (and yeah, it's pretty much finished barring an awards-season reissue) on a $150m budget, single-handedly turned around at least some of the narrative concerning DC Films (at least in terms of quality) and countered decades of conventional wisdom about the box office appeal of a big-budget, female-driven comic book superhero movie.
Oh, and it also showed that female directors could make big-budget comic book action movies as well as male directors. So to the surprise of absolutely no one, Jenkins will be back for the sequel.
The follow-up will allegedly take place during the 1980s and during the Cold War, but that could change over the course of production. Gal Gadot is certainly coming back, and I hope that the filmmakers have the courage to let Chris Pine's Steve Trevor stay dead. The picture is now around $2 million away from snagging a 4x multiplier from its record-setting $103.251m debut weekend, where it had the best legs for any "opened on a Friday" comic book superhero movie since Blade back in 1998. And, not adjusted for inflation, it's the fifth-biggest comic book movie ever in North America behind Chris Nolan's Dark Knight sequels and the first two Avengers movies.
Even with inflation, it's the biggest origin story/non-sequel behind only Spider-Man, Batman and Superman: The Movie. The film helped Time Warner Inc. have a simply bonkers summer season, to the point where no one really cares how bad/ill-advised King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was. The film was the biggest domestic earner of the summer, the first time in history that a female-driven and female-directed film pulled off said feet. Wonder Woman sits as the biggest grosser ever, even adjusted for inflation, helmed by a solo female director here and (with the possible exception of Mamma Mia!) abroad.
The deal took longer than hoped, allegedly because Jenkins was holding out for a game-changing/record-breaking payday, or essentially what a male director would have gotten to direct the follow-up to his critically acclaimed smash hit. And without arguing correlation = causation, I imagine the flood of "Maybe Patty Jenkins should do it!" utterings on social media after Colin Trevorrow left Star Wars 9 didn't hurt her cause in the slightest.
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