‘Wonder Woman’: Everything We Learned About The Film’s First Act
By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 10:00 am EST
Wonder Woman is coming to theaters this summer, with Gal Gadot starring in the DC Comics superhero’s first solo outing after debuting in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. With the exception of a photo revealing Diana Prince posing with some soldiers in World War I, her life remains shrouded in mystery in that film. But that’s about to change.
Director Patty Jenkins is giving us Wonder Woman’s origin story. While comic book movie fans may be tired of finding out about how these superheroes began, Wonder Woman has never been given this treatment on the big screen before. It helps that she has one of the more unique origin stories in comic book lore, so this won’t feel like we’re treading familiar territory. Warner Bros. invited /Film to their post-production facility in London, England for a story presentation (as well as a preview of footage) that laid out some new Wonder Woman plot details, explaining what the first act of the film will entail. If you want to go into Wonder Woman fresh, then stop reading! There may be some spoilers below, depending on what you don’t want to know about the movie.
London, 1918
The city is the complete opposite of Themyscira. There is no lush landscape and the smog of industry clouds the sky. There are people crowding the streets and the war is everywhere. It’s an entirely new world to Diana as she discovers things like ice cream and hoop skirts, and learns that in the world of mankind, women are not warriors.
Diana is forced to blend in with some typical 1918 wardrobe as she and Trevor make their way to the war council to deliver news of the impending gas attack. But at this point, there are talks of peace and the armistice of 1918 is on the verge of being signed, ending this war. Since those talks are too fragile to jeopardize, the war council won’t send troops to deal with this potential threat. Both Diana and Steve refuse to take no for an answer, and they decide to thwart this deadly gas attack on their own. So they round up a small band of soldiers (Ewen Bremner, Said Taghmaoui and Eugene Brave Rock) to join them. Diana is not impressed with the reinforcements, while the three men aren’t too keen on having a woman come along for this pivotal fight. So they all have to cut through the tension and figure out how to work together.
While on this journey, in addition to all the action that takes place on the battlefield, there’s also moments where Steve and Diana spend some time bonding, including a dance in the snow outside.
We were told that everything in the story presentation constitutes roughly the first third of the movie, from the opening bookend to the origins of Themyscira, to Diana and Steve arriving in London and setting out on their own mission. There are not really any shocking details that were revealed in this first act, and much of what was explained can easily be assumed from the trailers we’ve seen so far. However, some of the finer details that will help you determine what to expect from Wonder Woman can be gleaned from our reaction to the footage shown to us at Warner Bros. post-production facility in London, as well as our character breakdown of the key players, and a lengthy chat with director Patty Jenkins. Look for those today.
‘Wonder Woman’: Everything We Learned About The Film’s First Act
By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2017 10:00 am EST
Wonder Woman is coming to theaters this summer, with Gal Gadot starring in the DC Comics superhero’s first solo outing after debuting in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. With the exception of a photo revealing Diana Prince posing with some soldiers in World War I, her life remains shrouded in mystery in that film. But that’s about to change.
Director Patty Jenkins is giving us Wonder Woman’s origin story. While comic book movie fans may be tired of finding out about how these superheroes began, Wonder Woman has never been given this treatment on the big screen before. It helps that she has one of the more unique origin stories in comic book lore, so this won’t feel like we’re treading familiar territory. Warner Bros. invited /Film to their post-production facility in London, England for a story presentation (as well as a preview of footage) that laid out some new Wonder Woman plot details, explaining what the first act of the film will entail. If you want to go into Wonder Woman fresh, then stop reading! There may be some spoilers below, depending on what you don’t want to know about the movie.
Director Patty Jenkins is giving us Wonder Woman’s origin story. While comic book movie fans may be tired of finding out about how these superheroes began, Wonder Woman has never been given this treatment on the big screen before. It helps that she has one of the more unique origin stories in comic book lore, so this won’t feel like we’re treading familiar territory.
Warner Bros. invited /Film to their post-production facility in London, England for a story presentation (as well as a preview of footage) that laid out some new Wonder Woman plot details, explaining what the first act of the film will entail.
If you want to go into Wonder Woman fresh, then stop reading! There may be some spoilers below, depending on what you don’t want to know about the movie.
Wonder Woman is a Flashback
The World of Themyscira
The architecture reminded me of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King if the structures were built into the landscape rather than just on the side of a mountain. Structures are covered with greenery and have water flowing freely all around with much of the interiors exposed to the outside elements, not unlike the throne room seen above.
Zeus creates mankind to be companions to the gods, letting man and god coexist peacefully. But Zeus’ son Ares becomes jealous of the relationship that Zeus has with mankind. Ares manipulates the minds of mankind to corrupt them, turning them against each other. This thrusts makind into a series of wars, all the while Ares decides to start killing off the other gods, stopping them from influencing mankind.
Diana Prince, Aspiring Warrior
Enter Steve Trevor and the War to End All Wars
Trevor begs Hippolyta to let him go so he can deliver this intelligence to the Allied forces in London, but the queen has no compassion for those who enslaved them. Diana points out that this kind of war is exactly the kind of thing that would come about because of Ares, the god of war. She believes the time has come for her to seek out Ares and stop him in order to restore peace and love to mankind. But Hippolyta refuses to let her fight for mankind.
Of course, Diana can’t help but follow her conscience, so she strikes a deal with Steve Trevor to sneak him off the island, provided that he takes her to where the war is the most deadly, because that’s where Ares will be. Steve doesn’t really buy into all this talk of gods, but since he has to get back to London, they have a deal.
London, 1918
The city is the complete opposite of Themyscira. There is no lush landscape and the smog of industry clouds the sky. There are people crowding the streets and the war is everywhere. It’s an entirely new world to Diana as she discovers things like ice cream and hoop skirts, and learns that in the world of mankind, women are not warriors.
Diana is forced to blend in with some typical 1918 wardrobe as she and Trevor make their way to the war council to deliver news of the impending gas attack. But at this point, there are talks of peace and the armistice of 1918 is on the verge of being signed, ending this war. Since those talks are too fragile to jeopardize, the war council won’t send troops to deal with this potential threat. Both Diana and Steve refuse to take no for an answer, and they decide to thwart this deadly gas attack on their own. So they round up a small band of soldiers (Ewen Bremner, Said Taghmaoui and Eugene Brave Rock) to join them. Diana is not impressed with the reinforcements, while the three men aren’t too keen on having a woman come along for this pivotal fight. So they all have to cut through the tension and figure out how to work together.
While on this journey, in addition to all the action that takes place on the battlefield, there’s also moments where Steve and Diana spend some time bonding, including a dance in the snow outside.
We were told that everything in the story presentation constitutes roughly the first third of the movie, from the opening bookend to the origins of Themyscira, to Diana and Steve arriving in London and setting out on their own mission. There are not really any shocking details that were revealed in this first act, and much of what was explained can easily be assumed from the trailers we’ve seen so far. However, some of the finer details that will help you determine what to expect from Wonder Woman can be gleaned from our reaction to the footage shown to us at Warner Bros. post-production facility in London, as well as our character breakdown of the key players, and a lengthy chat with director Patty Jenkins. Look for those today.
Diana is forced to blend in with some typical 1918 wardrobe as she and Trevor make their way to the war council to deliver news of the impending gas attack. But at this point, there are talks of peace and the armistice of 1918 is on the verge of being signed, ending this war. Since those talks are too fragile to jeopardize, the war council won’t send troops to deal with this potential threat.
Both Diana and Steve refuse to take no for an answer, and they decide to thwart this deadly gas attack on their own. So they round up a small band of soldiers (Ewen Bremner, Said Taghmaoui and Eugene Brave Rock) to join them. Diana is not impressed with the reinforcements, while the three men aren’t too keen on having a woman come along for this pivotal fight. So they all have to cut through the tension and figure out how to work together.
While on this journey, in addition to all the action that takes place on the battlefield, there’s also moments where Steve and Diana spend some time bonding, including a dance in the snow outside.
We were told that everything in the story presentation constitutes roughly the first third of the movie, from the opening bookend to the origins of Themyscira, to Diana and Steve arriving in London and setting out on their own mission. There are not really any shocking details that were revealed in this first act, and much of what was explained can easily be assumed from the trailers we’ve seen so far.
However, some of the finer details that will help you determine what to expect from Wonder Woman can be gleaned from our reaction to the footage shown to us at Warner Bros. post-production facility in London, as well as our character breakdown of the key players, and a lengthy chat with director Patty Jenkins. Look for those today.
