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    Patty Jenkins Gets Candid About Warner Bros.'s Initial Mistrust Over Her 'Wonder Woman' Vision

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    When addressing her internal war with the studio over the blockbuster movie, the ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ director admits they just wanted her to be a symbol of empowerment without any power.

    Jan 5, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Patty Jenkins battled with Warner Bros. bosses over her vision for “Wonder Woman”, because they just wanted a female to direct the blockbuster.
    The filmmaker reveals studio chiefs didn’t even want to read her script for the hit film and initially refused to take her suggestions seriously until she made it clear she wasn’t just going to be a symbol of empowerment without any power.
    “They wanted to hire me like a beard,” she said on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “They wanted me to walk around on set as a woman, but it was their story and their vision.”
    “They didn’t even want to read my script. There was such mistrust of a different way of doing things and a different point of view… When I first joined ‘Wonder Woman’, it was like, ‘Uh, yeah, OK, but let’s do it this other way’. But I was like, ‘Women don’t want to see that. Her being harsh and tough and cutting people’s heads off… I’m a Wonder Woman fan, that’s not what we’re looking for!’ ”

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    But she can understand why some executives were nervous about “Wonder Woman”, “They were all freaked out by all the female superhero films that had failed, the smaller ones that had failed, and also Christopher Nolan was making the ‘Dark Knight’ thing, so I think they were just trying to figure out what they were doing with DC at that time,” she added.
    “During that period of time, there were so many scripts and I could see the writing on the wall. This was an internal war on every level about what ‘Wonder Woman’ should be.”
    The film went on to become a huge hit for the studio, breaking records around the world, and Jenkins’ sequel, which was released on Christmas Day (December 25), has also been acclaimed. She is now working on a third film with “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot.

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      Patty Jenkins Fears Covid-19 Crisis Would Kill Movie Theatre Industry

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      The ‘Wonder Woman’ director warns the ongoing coronavirus pandemic could lead to the extinction of the ‘movie theatre-going forever’ as the industry is struggling amid the crisis.
      Oct 9, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins has warned that the movie theatre industry faces a very real threat of extinction due to the coronavirus pandemic.
      The worldwide health crisis led to cinemas being shut down earlier this year (20) and, while they started to reopen around the globe in July and August, a number have shuttered again following the delay of the releases such as James Bond movie “No Time to Die” and sci-fi epic “Dune”.
      Now Jenkins, whose “Wonder Woman 1984” has been delayed three times due to the pandemic, has warned that the industry may never recover from the impact of Covid-19.
      “If we shut this down, this will not be a reversible process,” she told Reuters. “We could lose movie theatre-going forever.”

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      While many movies have headed straight to streaming services rather than having cinema releases, such as Disney’s “Mulan”, Jenkins insisted that’s not a possibility for her blockbuster, starring Gal Gadot.
      “It could be the kind of thing that happened to the music industry,” she warned, adding that, if movie theatres continue to close, Hollywood studios will stop investing in films for cinema releases.
      “Where you could crumble the entire industry by making it something that can’t be profitable.”
      Wonder Woman 1984 is scheduled for a cinema release on Christmas Day (25Dec20) – six months after its original planned release in July.
      Patty Jenkins recently signed an open letter pleading with the congress to help bail out cinemas hit by the crisis. She was joined by Hollywood movie moguls like Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Judd Apatow, Jon Chu, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, and Michael Bay.

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