Wonder Woman 1984 is one of the most anticipated movies at Comic Con this year—and after learning of Chris Pines surprising return to the series, as well as an updated setting (the 80s, as opposed to the World War I milieu of the first film) and a new villain (Kristen Wiigs Cheetah), fans have been excited to learn what new dangers and adventures our Amazonian hero will have to face. Director Patty Jenkins, back again after the first Wonder Woman was such a roaring success, didnt reveal too much during her portion of the panel, but did explain what she found so fascinating about the sequels new time period.
Wonder Woman 1984 is set during a critical juncture of Earths history at the end of the Cold War, when the nuclear arms race was at its peak. Human scientific invention had never been more prolific, and yet all the worlds citizens lived in terror of devastating war. That, Jenkins says, is the perfect place for Wonder Woman to make her next stand.
“One of my fave things about making the original was that it took place during WWI, in 1917, an era full of metaphors like modernity and the mechanized world,” she said. “I grew up in the 80s, and this has its own look and feel. The reason I am excited is it showed mankind at its best and worst. It was grand and wonderful, there was great music and there were elegant and beautiful things. But other things about the decade revealed the worst of us. To have Wonder Woman in that period of time that was us at our most extreme, is wonderful.”
As for exactly how in the world Steve Trevor is back after all these years, Chris Pine said well just have to wait to see the movie to find out.
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