The fourth installment of DC Extended Universe, the long-anticipated Wonder Woman, is set to releases today in two major cineplexes in the capital, Star Cineplex and Blockbuster Cinemas.
Gal Gadot portrays the titular role in the film with Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen and Elena Anaya in supporting roles.
Directed by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman is the first major superhero film directed by a woman, whose credits include directing and writing the 2003 Oscar-winning Monster.
The film’s unique idea, the World War I setting, came from Warners’ DC film braintrust, which includes, among other producers and writers, Zack Snyder, the director of Batman v Superman.
The original story introduces the Amazon princess with the potential to develop in all kinds of radical ways, set in a period when women were beginning to fight for reproductive rights and sexual freedom. One of the inspirations for Wonder Woman was feminist activist Margaret Sanger, who co-founded America’s first birth control clinic.
Talking about the idea behind it, Patty Jenkins said, “It took me a second when I first thought about it. Like, wow, World War I? But I very quickly got excited about the benefit of that. One, we’ve seen World War II so many times, and that was the period of the birth of all these superheroes [Wonder Woman first appeared in print in 1941] so we’ve already been there. The second reason was that World War I was so horrific, you could glean from the power of that.”
“You take a god, a superhero, and intersect them with the Great War that mankind fought the first time, then watch her worldview change via war. And by the war, anytime you shoot a real war, all the details of that war are sinking into the fabric. It becomes not just anonymous war, it’s informed by all of that awesome detail,” she added.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
