‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel Director Patty Jenkins Teases Important Reason For 1984 Setting

During an interview with Deadline’s Crew Call Podcast, Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins teased an important reason for choosing that specific year for the setting of the long-awaited sequel.

The highly-anticipated sequel to Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman is set to hit theaters next summer and while there is still plenty audiences don’t know about Diana Prince’s second adventure in the DCEU, we do know that the film will be set during the Reagan Era of the 1980s, specifically in the year 1984. In fact, some fans have theorized the year of choice is a nod to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, suggesting the Patty Jenkins film could examine the excess and questionable Wall Street practices of the decade. While director Patty Jenkins did not reveal too many details on why she chose to set the Wonder Woman sequel in 1984, she did confirm it will be important in the film and resonates with current events as well:

“All I can say is that 1984 itself is definitely very evocative to what’s important in that movie and resonates with right now. I picked 1984 for a very specific reason. I think it was the pinnacle of the success in the ‘80s, in my opinion, because it’s before the market started to get a little more struggling as the ‘80s went on. And it was like the top of the top. It was such an incredible time. I feel like there’s something about the excess of that period of time, which is so linked up to where we are in the world right now, that it’s set there for a reason.That’s all I can say.”

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Full details on the Wonder Woman 1984 plot are currently unknown, though the film will follow Gal Gadot’s titular hero as she comes into conflict with the Soviet Union in the 1980s and encounters a formidable new adversary named Cheetah.

Directed by Patty Jenkins from a script she co-wrote with David Callaham and a treatment she developed with Geoff Johns, Wonder Woman 1984 stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wigg, Pedro Pascal, Natasha Rothwell, Ravi Patel, Gabriella Wilde, Connie Nielson, and Robin Wright.

Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in theaters on June 4, 2020.

Source: Deadline (via SyFy Wire)