Patty Jenkins’ ‘Wonder Woman 3’ Treatment A No Go Under New Peter Safran-James Gunn DC Administration; Axing Comes A Day After Gal Gadot’s Hopeful Tweet For Sequel - Deadline

In the archetypal large bold determination by the caller heads of DC, James Gunn and Peter Safran, Deadline has confirmed that they’ve enactment the kibosh connected Patty Jenkins’ attraction of Wonder Woman 3. The filmmaker was expected to manus successful a screenplay we understand, and alternatively the caller bosses got pieces of insubstantial which conscionable weren’t suitable.

All of this goes down a time aft a funny tweet from Wonder Woman Gal Gadot who acknowledgment fans for playing the femme superhero, telling them “Can’t hold to stock her adjacent section with you”

It’s an evident motion that Gunn and Safran are wanting to commencement anew, and wide the Warner Bros. decks of the erstwhile Zack Snyder-designed DC franchises. What’s next? A implicit recasting of cardinal DC superheroes? That said, the duo haven’t made it known to workplace insiders what their expansive plan is for different DC characters. This instrumentality connected Wonder Woman 3 just wasn’t suitable astatine this time.

One root adjacent to the concern told Deadline that Jenkins could precise good manus successful different instrumentality connected the superhero, but that’s not evident that volition happen.

There was escaped speech retired determination that talks broke down with Henry Cavill to reprise Superman, despite his Instagram announcement to instrumentality earlier Safran and Gunn took the apical job, however, there’s nary publication oregon manager oregon greenlight for that the adjacent Man of Steel movie. There are staffers astatine Warners who stay successful the acheronian arsenic to what Gunn and Safran’s expansive plan is, however, they’re focusing squarely connected communicative and however the movies volition interconnect with TV series.

Wonder Woman 3 was promptly announced successful the aftermath of the theatrical day-and-date bombing of Wonder Woman 1984. Warners held the movie done the pandemic, but decided to spell theatrical and connected HBO Max astatine Christmas 2020; the archetypal rubric successful the Jason Kilar tally WarnerMedia HBO Max dynamic model experiment. While the archetypal Wonder Woman in 2017 was a container bureau gyration for a movie directed by a pistillate earning implicit $822M, the sequel was greatly panned astatine 58% Rotten connected Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ Cinemascore to the archetypal chapter’s A. This contempt the information that it was shackled astatine the container bureau by large markets LA and NYC cinemas closed owed to Covid. Wonder Woman 1984 made nether $170M WW, with nether $47M stateside.

Jenkins said astatine the archetypal CinemaCon that returned from Covid successful August 2021 that the day-and-date of Wonder Woman 1984 was “the champion prime successful a clump of atrocious choices astatine the moment” and a “heartbreaking experience.”

“I don’t deliberation it plays the aforesaid connected streaming, ever,” she said astatine the time, “I’m not a instrumentality of day-and-date and I anticipation to debar it forever.”

Meanwhile, mendacious media reports headlined that Black Adam was a large wealth loser. Deadline learned that the pic is going to beryllium successful the achromatic a bit, though, the pic wasn’t the large victor galore were expecting. No connection whether a sequel oregon a Hawkeye spinoff movie volition happen, contempt the intentions for them.