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it’s January 2020, and Total Film is emerging from a screening room in a swish Los Angeles hotel in a bit of a daze. We’ve just been blasted with 20 minutes of unfinished but electrifying footage from Wonder Woman 1984, and the resulting sensation is not unlike swinging from a lightning bolt with the Lasso of Truth. Showcasing footage from key scenes throughout the film, there’s comedy and character-building and pulse-pounding action, including an epic contest in a Themiscyra flashback, and a truck chase in the Middle East that’d give Indiana Jones chills.
TF is still buzzing from the footage as we head upstairs to meet the woman behind it, director/producer/co-writer Patty Jenkins, who also helmed Wonder Woman’s World War 1-set solo adventure, which opened in 2017. Warm and welcoming, and dressed in era-appropriate black leather trousers and a white power-shouldered top, Jenkins is in a rare position for a blockbuster director: months ahead of release, the movie is as good as finished.
“Very rare,” confirms Jenkins. “And unfortunately so. I actually think that they should do it much more often.” After finishing the first movie, Jenkins was set to direct all the episodes in limited series , but could only take on the first two when the sequel shifted. “This movie was supposed to come out in the summer of 2020, and then Warner Bros moved it way
