The Wonder Woman 1984 panel offers sneak peeks at the film (likely including exclusive new images) and a question-and-answer session with cast and crew. The trailer premieres sometime between 10am and 10:25am, most likely not during the first five minutes or final few minutes, so you can pretty safely assume we’ll be watching it between 10:05am and 10:20am. The first trailer clocked in at just under two-and-a-half minutes, and the new footage will probably have a similar runtime of between two and three minutes.
I mean honestly, the funny thing is he is [an influence],” Jenkins said. “We even have the president in this movie, and I’ve gone out of my way not to make it look like Ronald Reagan.”
She continued, “I don’t want to get political, it’s not about being political.”
Jenkins said another well-known figure of the times played a role in shaping Pascal’s character.
Actually, a huge influence of this movie was also [Bernie] Madoff,” she said. “Those young Madoff stories fascinate me, because I’m like, ‘How do you end up being Bernie Madoff?’ And when you really start tracking that story, it’s like, it all started out in a way that made sense, and he was paying it off, and then doing this, and then paying it off again.”
When Wonder Woman premiered in theaters in 2017, it changed the landscape of genre film. We saw our comic book hero on the big screen for the first time (barring her appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), and the world responded. The film took home a whopping $821 million worldwide.
SYFY FANGRRLS had the opportunity to visit the set of Wonder Woman 1984 in London a while back, speaking to director Patty Jenkins about the film as well as stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, who is back (though we don’t know how) as Steve Trevor. Jenkins chatted with us about where this film fits into the DCEU, gave us a look at Barbara Anne Minerva, aka Cheetah (Kristen Wiig), and Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), and how a movie set in the ’80s taps into modern-day issues.
Wonder Woman meant so much to so many of us, and it still rankles that it took so many decades to get a well-done female-fronted superhero movie. In the first film, we saw Diana struggle to understand how women fight in the dresses of WWI, and why women were treated differently from men after growing up in Themyscira in an all-female society.
We asked Jenkins about the relationship Diana has to feminism in this film as opposed to her first solo outing. „I think it’s similar,“ she said. „The interesting thing about Diana to me is seeing feminism through the eyes of someone who’s absolutely oblivious that it would even be an issue. And that was what I loved in the first movie. It’s like she has no chip on her shoulder. It never occurred to her that you would not see men and women as absolutely equal. Here I think she continues to just be her own sole person, but now she’s aware. So now you see this awareness of like, ‚Oh, okay, this is different and that’s different, and there is a relationship to it,‘ and people are reacting to her as they work.“