Filming for the next Wonder Woman movie to start in November.
Wonder Woman is the next superhero movie that Warner Bros./DC plans to release in theaters, and it will be overseen by the director of Monster, Patty Jenkins. However, will not see Wonder Woman until Summer 2016, after it has followed a pair of comic book adaptations in 2016 including Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. That being said, a Fall 2015 start date for filming has been reported.
Producer of all upcoming live-action films in the DC Universe and wife to the director of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Deborah Snyder, has now confirmed that filming on Wonder Woman will start within a couple of months. As such, more casting calls and details on the movie should follow shortly.
It’s now official that Wonder Woman starts filming in November, as confirmed by Deborah Snyder, when she recently spoke about the movie at the GEena Davis Institute.
“We still wanted a female director and we found Patty Jenkins, who had the right vision and the same vision that we had for the character. We’re really happy that we’re going to be going into production in November, it’s been a really great process. We’ve tried to hire as many female members of the crew as possible.”
Screenwriter Jason Fuchs, the same writer behind Pan, will write the script for Wonder Woman, but the film’s screenplay development, as well as the project overall, has always been under the direction of a woman, says Deborah Snyder. It was first Michelle MacLaren, then Jenkins when MacLaren and WB/DC spit. Wonder Woman will partially film in Italy, to serve as Diana’s home island of Themyscira.
So far, Gal Gadot is scheduled to reprise as Diana Prince in Wonder Woman, after she makes her screen debut in Batman V. Superman. Chris Pine is rumored to join the cast as Steve Trevor. Trevor was introduced in Wonder Woman comics in the early 1940s, as a WWII-era Air Corps pilot. He crashed his plane and was then nursed back to health by Diana, where they end up falling in love.
Rumors have surfaced that allege the Jenkins take on the movie will partially take place in WWI, however it’s possible for Trevor to meet Diana during another point in time. In fact, concept art displayed by WB?DC showed at its 2015 San Diego Comic-Con panel suggests the second World War will be part of the story. However, it is not clear how much of an impact that will have on the upcoming feature film. That being the case, it could be possible that Chris Pine’s character Steve Trevor exists in Wonder Woman’s present-day and severs as a connectionb etween the U.S. government and Diana. Therefore, A.R.G.U.S. is introduced in either Wonder Woman or later Justice League movies.
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice opens on March 25th, 2016; Suicide Squad on August 5th, 2016; Wonder Woman on June 23rd, 2017; Justice League on November 17th, 2017; The Flash on March 23rd, 2018; Aquaman on July 27th, 2018; Shazam on April 5th, 2019; Justice League 2 on June 14th, 2019; Cyborg on April 3rd, 2020; Green Lantern Corps on June 19th, 2020. Untitled Batman and Superman solo films will be coming at dates TBD.
