Wonder Woman 1984 hit the theaters on December 18 , and on December 24 it has done the same in the US, but both within theaters and on HBO Max. Patty Jenkins, the director and recent signing of Disney to direct a new film Star Wars, has strive for both a highly controversial industrial ecosystem, being its sequel to Wonder Woman the first of a long list of premieres Warner Bros that will debut simultaneously on streaming and traditional circuits. Throughout the promotion, Jenkins has not kept his opinions on this strategy (expressing preference on the big screen), nor has he avoided talking about his conflicts with the major.
Thus, throughout various interviews Jenkins has given details about a salary dispute that took place in the wake of Wonder Woman 1984 (and which ended with a satisfactory raise in salary), and has also spoken about the reception of the first film of the Wonder Woman. In 2017 Wonder Woman had generally quite positive reviews (especially for what was customary at that time within DC), but there was no shortage of comments that questioned the end of the film, with an overload of CGI and motley action that related the film of Gal Gadot with delusions of Zack Snyder. Jenkins is aware of this, and admits his dislike.
By then it was understood that the climax between Diana Prince and Ares ( David Thewlis ) corresponded to an attempt by Warner to establish visual continuity with The Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , both directed by Snyder. According to Jenkins it is not something far from the truth, because she had initially thought of another type of outcome. “The original ending was much smaller but the studio forced me to change it at the last minute,” he assured for media like IGN , without clarifying what scene he had in mind.
“It’s always been kind of annoying that it’s the only thing people talk about because I agree and I told the studio that we didn’t have time to do something like that, but it is what it is. I have learned to love it, but it was not the original idea ”, continues the director. Regarding Wonder Woman 1984 , however, she is grateful that this time she did not suffer interference from Warner, and that the ending that appeared in the film is just as she first thought, combining intimacy with excess of that showed the last minutes of Wonder Woman .
