Wonder Woman 3 is no longer moving forward in its current iteration. However, while initial reports claimed DC Studios chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran made the call, it turns out director Patty Jenkins decided to exit the project.
Sources had speculated that in a town that isn’t very female-friendly and had just put two men in the driver’s seat of the DCU, maybe there’d been a culture clash that resulted in Jenkins' Wonder Woman 3 being canned. Instead, it was revealed that Jenkins doesn't like getting notes on her projects.
The Wrap reports that certain projects were untouchable as Gunn and Safran developed their new DC plan, including Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel, Todd Phillips' Joker sequel, J.J. Abrams' Black-starring Superman project he was developing with Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jenkins' third outing with Diana Prince. However, when Jenkins submitted her Wonder Woman 3 treatment, Warner Bros. Film Group Co-Chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy gave Jenkins some notes regarding the direction of her movie. These were notes the former television director didn’t want to hear, and so subsequently bailed on her project.
While Gunn and Safran had nothing to do with the decision, they said that they agreed with the notes and that the direction that Jenkins wanted to take Wonder Woman didn’t gel with the more unified approach Zaslav was demanding from on high. Jenkins refused to budge and flat-out told the studio she wasn’t changing her vision and emailed the executives the definition of the term “character arc." Where this leaves Jenkins, whose Star Wars: Rogue Squadron has also been put on the back burner if not outright canned itself, is up to anybody to guess.
2017’s Wonder Woman did well for the studio, reinventing a character that had last seen live-action success with the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series from the 1970s and was relegated to a supporting role in the subsequent Justice League animated outings from the Warner Bros. animation division. The second film in Jenkins' series, Wonder Woman 1984, had a far more mixed reaction, with critics lambasting the villains, the direction of the story, and the ending. Even those who enjoyed it admitted it was nowhere near as good as the first one.
Warner Bros. is not done with Wonder Woman. The golden lasso of truth hasn’t been hung up permanently, just for a little bit while they figure out Wonder Woman 3.
Wonder Woman 3 is still in development.
Source: The Wrap
