Well, when the shortlist was first revealed her name wasn’t on it, but her’s seemed to be the first name on everyone’s lips once it was revealed Warner Bros. was hoping to fill the director’s chair on their upcoming Wonder Woman movie with a female director. That name being Michelle MacLaren, whose work on “Breaking Bad“, “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead” has resulted in some of the most talked about episodes when it comes to fans of those series.
Tonight, it seems I was right to Variety reports MacLaren is in negotiations to direct the film, which will feature Gal Gadot in the title role with plans for a June 23, 2017 release date.
Names that were on the shortlist to begin with included Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Karyn Kusama (Æon Flux), Mimi Leder (Deep Impact, “The Leftovers”) and Julie Taymor (Across The Universe).
Gadot will play Wonder Woman in the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, which hits theaters March 2016, and rumors have already began swirling as to the plot of the standalone Wonder Woman feature saying:
“[T]he film will spend the first half on Paradise Island with warring Amazon factions vying for control. An arrival of a man on the island changes that status quo, as he asks the Amazons for help. Not necessarily Steve Trevor either… Because when Wonder Woman joins [the man] on his return to the world of Man, we all discover that it is the 1920s. And the film will then show Diana exploring that world – a world where women have only just got the vote – from her… unique perspective.”
After that…
“A planned sequel would then take place during World War II in the thirties and forties. This of course was the period that the seventies TV show began in, before shifting to the then-modern day. And a threequel would then take place in the modern day, with the Justice League Of America.”
Whether or not it all plays out as rumored above is anyone’s guess, but it at least gave me a little something to write and pad the word count on this post.
