Gal Gadot reprises her role as everyone's favorite Amazonian demigod in Wonder Woman 1984.
Diana Prince faces off against two new formidable foes, and reunites with an old love, in the hotly anticipated first trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, with Gal Gadot reprising her titular role. Director Patty Jenkins unveiled the trailer today at Comic Con Experience (CCXP) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Inspired by the comic book heroine created by William Moulton Marston in the 1940s for DC Comics, Wonder Woman made her big screen debut in the DCEU with 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, followed by 2017's Justice League. The first fell short of box office expectations; the second bombed outright. So when Jenkins took on Wonder Woman's origin story, she deliberately departed from the grim humorlessness and dark sensibility of those earlier films, bringing a brighter energy and wit to her tale, along with the usual action. That vision paid off: Wonder Woman went on to gross $821 million worldwide, and earned critical raves, making it the most successful of the DCEU films thus far.
Jenkins first broached the possibility of a sequel shortly after the first film's release in June 2017, and principal photography began a year later. It has been described as a standalone film rather than a direct sequel, "in the same way that Indiana Jones or [James] Bond are, instead of one continuous story that requires many installments." (That standalone strategy worked well for Warner Bros' 2019 box office smash Joker, which became the first R-rated film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.)
This second film is set almost seventy years after the original film. “In this movie we find [Diana] in 1984 and [she] is quite lonely — shes lost her friends and doing what she needs to do,” Gadot said at CCXP. “Shes helping mankind and saving them until something crazy happens to her.”
Wonder Woman 1984 finds the titular heroine (Gad Gadot) in a lonely place. YouTube/Warner Bros
She still misses her WWI love, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) YouTube/Warner Bros
Nonetheless, when violence breaks out in a local mall, she swoops in to save the day. YouTube/Warner Bros
Kristen Wiig plays Barbara Ann Minerva, who becomes arch-nemesis Cheetah. YouTube/Warner Bros
Pedro Pascal plays business entrepreneur Maxwell Lord, who has some sort of villainous plan. YouTube/Warner Bros
Diana senses a presence at a gala. YouTube/Warner Bros
Reunited with Steve—but how? YouTube/Warner Bros
Steve is a man out of time. YouTube/Warner Bros
Wielding the golden lasso. YouTube/Warner Bros
A swift kick takes out an opponent YouTube/Warner Bros
Diana and Steve experience some fireworks. YouTube/Warner Bros
Flashback to young Diana in Themyscira. YouTube/Warner Bros