Wonder Woman 3 director Patty Jenkins ‘never walked away’, Rogue Squadron still alive - Polygon

Patty Jenkins, the manager of the 2 Wonder Woman movies starring Gal Gadot, has spoken retired astir the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 by Warner Bros. which was reported by The Hollywood Reporter past week.

Jenkins posted a connection to Twitter which asserted that she “never walked away” from the project. Jenkins was responding to a follow-up study from The Wrap which claimed that Jenkins had refused to rework her attraction for the movie aft producers had rejected it. The study said producers had invited her to transportation again, but she had discontinue alternatively than revise her ideas.

“This is simply not true,” Jenkins wrote successful her statement. “I ne'er walked away. I was unfastened to considering thing asked of me. It was my knowing determination was thing I could bash to determination thing guardant astatine this time.”

Jenkins laid the blasted astatine the doorway of the firm upheaval astatine Warner Bros., which is restructuring and slimming down accumulation aft its merger with Discovery arsenic it besides seeks to reorganise DC movie and TV nether the caller DC Studios banner and its heads James Gunn and Peter Safran. “DC is evidently buried successful changes they are having to make, truthful I recognize these decisions are hard close now,” she said.

Gunn offered tacit endorsement of Jenkins’ mentation of events. Replying to Jenkins’ tweet, helium said, “I tin attest that each of Peter and my interactions with you were lone pleasant and professional.”

Jenkins besides acceptable the grounds consecutive connected Rogue Squadron, the Star Wars movie she was acceptable to marque earlier it was removed from Disney’s schedule. The movie remains successful progressive development, she said, though it’s not a dormant cert that it volition beryllium made.

Jenkins explained that she had primitively near Rogue Squadron owed to a scheduling clash with Wonder Woman 3, but that Lucasfilm had asked if she would travel backmost and marque it aft the DC film, which she agreed to do.

“I primitively near Rogue Squadron after a agelong and productive improvement process erstwhile it became wide it couldn’t hap soon capable and I did not privation to hold WW3 immoderate further,” she said. “When I did, Lucasfilm asked maine to see coming backmost to RS aft WW3, which I was honored to do, truthful I agreed. They made a caller woody with me. In fact, I americium inactive connected it and that task has been successful progressive improvement ever since. I don’t cognize if it volition hap oregon not. We ne'er bash until the improvement process is complete, but I look guardant to its imaginable ahead.”

Presumably Rogue Squadron has an improved accidental of getting backmost connected way with Wonder Woman 3 nary longer connected Jenkins’ schedule.

In her statement, Jenkins paid tribute to Wonder Woman fans, arsenic good arsenic to Gadot and to Lynda Carter, the histrion who portrayed the quality connected TV successful the 1970s, and to the quality of Wonder Woman herself. “Living successful and astir her values makes 1 a amended idiosyncratic each day,” she said. “I privation her and her bequest an astonishing aboriginal ahead, with oregon without me.”