Patty Jenkins Fought for Both ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Opening Scenes When Warner Bros. Wanted One Cut
Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton
Wonder Woman 1984 opens with two different action sequences that serve two very different purposes. The first is a flashback sequence showing a young Diana (Lilly Aspell) competing in an Olympic-style competitive event on Themyscira, and the second brings us into Washington D.C. in 1984 with a vibrant, cartoonish sort of jewelry heist that adult Diana (Gal Gadot) stops in a shopping mall. However, one of them almost didn’t make the cut because Warner Bros. Pictures wanted director Patty Jenkins to trim the two and a half-hour runtime by getting rid of one of them. Read More »
