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FORBES.COM: Why It's A Big Deal That Patty Jenkins Is Directing 'Wonder Woman 2'

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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.

 

The reason this is a big deal is that there is a long history of women helming big smash hits and/or starting franchises only to get stiffed when the sequel came around.

 

Sam Taylor-Johnson started Fifty Shades of Grey, but James Foley got to finish it. Catherine Hardwicke started Twilight, but a succession of dudes got to do the four sequels. And even Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again will be directed not by Phyllida Lloyd (who helmed the original, $609 million-grossing 2008 hit) but by Ol Parker (who wrote The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Save for the Bridget Jones series, where all three films were directed by women and Sharon Maguire directed the first and third pictures, I can't think of a single example of a franchise where a female filmmaker got to helm the first film and one of the sequels. To be fair, Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks) and Pitch Perfect 3 (Trish She) will have female filmmakers, but Jason Moore directed the original.

 

Jenkins' Wonder Woman sequel, presumably penned by Jenkins and Geoff Johns, will debut on Dec. 13, 2019, or one month after Walt Disney's Frozen 2 and a week before Universal/Comcast Corp.'s Wicked. Clearly, women don't go to the movies, and clearly, movies about/for women are box office poison. On that note, maybe Lionsgate should tee up The Expendables 4 for Christmas 2019 purely as counter-programming. Of course, if Sony isn't bluffing about its Masters of the Universe reboot, we may have a He-Man versus He-Man competition. Of course, I'd feel more confident about the latter if it were a She-Ra movie.

 

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Expendables scribe Dave Callaham joins Wonder Woman 2 writing team

 

 

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It took a little longer than expected, but Patty Jenkins has now officially closed her deal to co-write, produce, and direct WONDER WOMAN 2, and now the writing team for the much-anticipated sequel has come together. Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns have been working on a treatment for several months, and now THR reports that Dave Callaham (THE EXPENDABLES) will be joining the pair.

 

According to Variety, Callaham's inclusion came at the request of Patty Jenkins, who had previously worked with the screenwriter on an English-language remake of Jo Nesbø's JACKPOT, which was to be Jenkins' next project until WONDER WOMAN came calling. We still don't know all that much about where the upcoming sequel will take Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), but Jenkins has said that she'd like the sequel to take place in America during the Cold War. Patty Jenkins has also teased that WONDER WOMAN 2 will finally showcase the "full-blown" Wonder Woman.

 

"The greatest thing about making this movie was the fact that you’re really building to the Wonder Woman that we all love, but not until the end of the movie. The most exciting thing about [the sequel] is literally seeing her loose in the world now, living those classic stories. Here’s Wonder Woman, and what can she do? It should be a totally different movie, but a grand and now full-blown Wonder Woman in the world."

 

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Robin Wright Wants In On The 'Wonder Woman' Sequel

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Gal Gadot is the undisputed star of Wonder Woman, but the film’s other Amazons made some big impressions on fans. Robin Wright’s Antiope was one such warrior, and the actress says she’d love to get another go at Wonder Woman.

 

Recently, Wright sat down with E! Online to discuss her part in Blade Runner 2049. The site asked if the actress would be interested in returning for the Wonder Woman sequel, and Wright didn’t hesitate to throw in her application.

 

“I would absolutely go back and do a sequel,” Wright said. “For sure. Come on! Girl power.”

 

The star was also asked if she saw the film’s overwhelming success coming. Wright said she could not have predicted it, but the star also isn’t that surprised by its blockbuster status.

 

“Not a clue. I mean, we had a hunch. Female superhero? First for everything,” Wright said.

 

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'Wonder Woman 2' Production Start Date Reportedly Revealed

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A production listing for the highly-anticipated sequel was recently discovered on MyEntertainmentWorld (via OmegaUnderground). According to the listing, the film will enter production sometime in June of 2018, over a year prior to its December 2019 debut.

 

This early of a production date certainly isn't abnormal, as the first Wonder Woman film began production in November of 2015. But what's most interesting is the listing's 'Story' section, which claims that "the sequel will be a period piece, with Princess Diana facing off against the Soviet Union during the 1980s."

 

Rumors of the sequel being set in the Cold War first circulated back in July, but no updates have been provided in the months since. And recent comments from Warner Bros. Pictures chief Toby Emmerich, as well as the franchise's director, Patty Jenkins, haven't seemed to support or counteract that setting.

 

"I’d like to bring her a little farther along into the future and have a fun, exciting storyline that is its own thing,” Jenkins teased last month. “Wonder Woman 1 is so much about her becoming the person she is. I can’t wait to spring forward with who she is and have another great standalone superhero film.”

 

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Now that is a cool way of recognizing someone's accomplishments and future.

'Superman' Director (Literally) Passes Baton To 'Wonder Woman' Director

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If there was one piece of collective praise that Wonder Woman received from viewers, it was being the best representation of inspiring heroism since the classic that started it all, 'Superman: The Movie'. Well, now 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins can officially wear that particular badge of honor, as Superman director Richard Donner literally and figuratively passed the baton of movie greatness to her!

 

Jenkins was attending a DGA (Directors Guild of America) event, which included a Q&A with Richard Donner. During that exchange, Donner gifted Jenkins with a Superman-themed baton he had made for her - a symbol of her carrying the legacy of DC superhero movies into the future.

 

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The Star Wars 9 release date is December 20, 2019. That is going to be an epic showdown.  I wonder if one of the films is going to flinch. 

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Like was noted by mattn792...

9 hours ago, mattn792 said:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-wont-make-wonder-woman-sequel-unless-brett-ratner-is-out.html

Hopefully more of the real talent takes similar stands against all of Hollyweird’s trash.  To think, at one time I thought the worst thing Ratner had ever done was X-Men: The Last Stand.  Dump him and his ilk with extreme vehemence.

Turns out Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment helped fund the first Wonder Woman movie as part of the WB Studios family. But at this point, this should be a non-issue for Wonder Woman 2 as WB is already parting ways with Ratner. Although the legal partnership doesn't end until mid-2018. RatPac even funded movies such as 'The LEGO Movie' and 'Gravity'.

Warner Bros. cuts ties with Brett Ratner after sexual misconduct allegations

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 Cheers to that!

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On 10/26/2017 at 11:27 AM, drotto said:

The Star Wars 9 release date is December 20, 2019. That is going to be an epic showdown.  I wonder if one of the films is going to flinch. 

Wonder Woman will. Nothing can touch Star Wars in popularity. 

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'Wonder Woman 2' Release Date Pushed Up

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Warner Bros. has moved the released of Wonder Woman 2 up by six weeks, from December 13, 2019, to November 1, 2019.

 

Moving the sequel to Wonder Woman out of December and into November allows DC Films and Warner Bros. to beat Star Wars: Episode IX to the box office. The third film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was originally meant to debut in May 2019 but was pushed to December when JJ Abrams signed on to direct, replacing Colin Trevorrow. Pushing Wonder Woman 2 forward means the film will avoid much direct competition with the goliath Star Wars franchise.

 

Instead, Wonder Woman 2 is opening on the same weekend that Thor: Ragnarok opened this year, which has worked out pretty well for Marvel's god of thunder.

 

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WW 2 is actually turning out to be Wonder Woman vs Brett Ratner.

Stay tuned...

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14 minutes ago, N e r V said:

WW 2 is actually turning out to be Wonder Woman vs Brett Ratner.

Stay tuned...

You are not kidding. Though his contract with WB ends in 2018. So they will probably buy him out with anything associated with Wonder Woman 2.

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3 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

'Wonder Woman 2' Release Date Pushed Up

 

You beat me to the post.  I know okne of them would flinch, and my money was on WW.

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50 minutes ago, drotto said:

You beat me to the post.  I know okne of them would flinch, and my money was on WW.

It's a smart play. Get out there ahead of the heavy competition versus popping up later and fighting through any repeat movie-goers.

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It depends on how well received the Empire Strikes Back retelling/redux does at the box office this winter......

 

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'Wonder Woman 2': Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins Address Brett Ratner Scandal

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In their latest respective interviews with ET, Gal Gadot and Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins had the following to say about the Ratner separation, and the Gadot's statements about it:

 

"That whole thing happened weeks ago, so that actually had nothing to do with Gal. That was a foregone conclusion, I think. I was surprised by that story."

 

When Gal Gadot was asked about her ultimatum against Ratner, and outspoken statements about the state of Hollywood misogyny, Gadot added the following:

 

"Look, there's been a lot written about how I feel and my views about this topic, and everyone knows how I feel about it. And the truth is there are so many people involved with making this movie, and they all have echoed the same sentiments."

 

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WONDER WOMAN Star Gal Gadot Confirms Brett Ratner No Longer Involved With Sequel

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Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has finally responded to reports that she wouldn't return for the sequel if Brett Ratner, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, remained involved with the franchise.

Warner Bros. has reportedly already broken ties with Ratner and his production company RatPac-Dune Entertainment, who co-financed the original, Gal Gadot has finally cleared the air herself.

Gadot weighed in on the entire situation on the TODAY Show, and confirmed herself that Ratner is no longer involved with the DC film franchise.

"The truth is, there's so many people involved in making this movie. It's not just me, and they all echoed the same sentiments. So everyone knew what the right thing to do, but there was nothing for me to say because it was already done before this article came out," Gadot said.

 

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Gal Gadot's ouster of Brett Ratner from Wonder Woman 2 makes her the hero we need, and deserve

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Although Warner Bros. has already announced that it wouldn’t renew their association with Brett Ratner or his company, RatPac Dune Entertainment, after 2018 when it expires, the disgraced producer-director could have carried on being a co-producer on the sequel of Wonder Woman, a franchise he helped create. Warner Bros. terminated their association with Ratner after the multiple sexual misconduct and harassment allegations against him became public.

 

As a producer, Ratner could have continued being a part of Wonder Woman and with the first one making $800 million at the box office, he was bound to make a killing on the sequel that already been confirmed for a summer 2019 release. But the film’s lead Gal Gadot’s very firm and very public stand against Ratner where she reportedly refused to return for Wonder Woman 2 if he continued to be involved in any capacity, has ensured Ratner won’t be associated with the film any more.

 

In the light of what transpired between Netflix and Spacey, Gal Gadot’s stance marks a visible change in the power dynamics in Hollywood. Her willingness to put her own interest on the line to ensure that either the studio or Hollywood’s power brokers do not get away with a ‘business as usual’ shrug is the stuff that future industry folklore would be made of. In a podcast, Elizabeth “Liz” Tippett, a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, said that this is perhaps the moment that will force employers to think whether they want to keep a ‘documented harasser’ on the payroll. Gadot, in fact, went a step further and put it out there simply — she didn’t want a series celebrating women’s empowerment to benefit a man accused of harassing women — and the manner in which her action has hit a powerful man such as Ratner right where it hurts the most — the wallet — is what makes this more potent.

 

That Gal Gadot is ‘Wonder Woman’ is well known, but her being a true hero is about more than donning a costume. It’s the way that she stood up for her principles and did not give in that makes her a real hero and an inspiration for many.

More than ever, female movie-goes are most probably going to take Wonder Woman 2 to new heights after this.

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Wonder Woman Director in the Running for TIME’s Person of the Year

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Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is being considered by TIME readers as their choice of the magazine’s annual “Person of the Year.” It’s no doubt been an eventful 2017 for Jenkins, an acclaimed filmmaker who first won raves for directing the true-life crime drama Monster, which earned Charlize Theron her Best Actress Oscar in 2004. More than 13 years after Monster caught the attention of Hollywood, Jenkins herself is basking in the glow of not only the industry, but in the overwhelming reception of fans to Wonder Woman and now, voters in a poll who consider a “Person of the Year” from all walks of life.

 

According to TIME magazine, Jenkins is the only filmmaker being considered in a reader poll for its Person of the Year honor that runs through December 4. The annual issued featuring TIME’s Person of the Year (previously known as “Man of the Year” and “Woman of the Year” until 1999) began 90 years ago with famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. The criteria doesn’t favor only people who have done good in their lives, but is given to the person who “for better or for worse … has done the most to influence the events of the year.”

 

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Playback: Patty Jenkins on ‘Wonder Woman’ and Crashing Through Glass Ceilings

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 Two months ago Patty Jenkins signed a landmark deal to direct the sequel to one of the year’s most acclaimed and popular films. “Wonder Woman” felt like a breath of fresh air amid an ongoing DC cinematic universe that has struggled, whether with critics or, as with the troubled “Justice League,” in actual production. But despite becoming the highest-paid female filmmaker ever, Jenkins never really saw herself as a barricade stormer.

 

With “Wonder Woman,” Jenkins first and foremost wanted to drill down into and pay proper respect to the original William Moulton Marston run. Visually, she and her cinematographer Matt Jensen were inspired by artist Alex Ross’ work. She wanted, ultimately, to tell a superhero story built on themes that would resonate in the modern climate.

 

“I did very much want to get to love — because that’s what she stands for — and the complexity of what we’re facing,” Jenkins says. “It’s the journey of a character who believes in good and evil, facing a world that shows you how unbelievably complicated it is to tackle that in any black and white terms, and therefore how much love it requires to make this world a better place.”

PLAYBACK: EP. 48 with Patty Jenkins