Gal Gadot will return as Wonder Woman, maybe
Today’s update in the ongoing saga of whether or not Gal Gadot will play Wonder Woman again is another non-answer.
Though she popped up in two of this year’s biggest superhero fiascos and returned to Vin Diesel hat in hand, like another wounded DC hero, Gadot isn’t hanging up the lasso of truth quite yet. During Netflix’s Tudum fan festival, which gave the world a good look at all the new animes the stream is translating into live-action, Gadot told ET, “Things are being worked behind the scenes” and, cryptically, “once the right moment arrives, you’ll know about it.”
The state of Gadot’s Wonder Woman has been in flux since before Discovery purchased Warner Bros. Being the first movie released under HBO Max’s day-and-date release debacle amid some of the darkest and deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, Wonder Woman 1984 never stood a chance at the box office. But the film also failed to impress critics or the DC faithful. Considering 2017’s Wonder Woman was the first DC movie to earnestly connect with mass audiences since The Dark Knight, the failure of Wonder Woman 1984 left the future of Wonder Woman 3 uncertain. Two years later, DC Studios was under new management, and director Patty Jenkins was tapping out of Wonder Woman 3, citing “creative differences.”
