Wonder Woman Director Talks Making Film
Wonder Woman is going to be a groundbreaking film in a lot of ways. She’ll be the first female-led superhero film since the “modern age of comic book movies” began, and is the first female hero from DC Comics to get a solo film, and rightfully so. DC Comics is actually beating out Marvel in this regard, as their first female-led film hasn’t come out yet, and won’t happen for another year or so. For Director Patty Jenkins, she talked with Empire about making the film, and noted that she didn’t go into it thinking that she was making a female-led film:
“I think it’s pretty significant, but I also didn’t think about it that way at all. I tried not to think about it, and that’s the great thing about being a woman director doing it, is I was like, “Oh, I’m just making a superhero movie.” I’m not looking at her as being any different than any other superhero. And that’s the victory,” Jenkins said.
“I think the reason that there wasn’t a woman superhero made for a long time is because people were assuming that it had to be a different kind of thing. Or more rarefied, or something. This is Wonder Woman. There’s nothing different. There’s Batman, there’s Superman, there’s Wonder Woman,” she continued. “She’s the full-blown real deal. So it’s very significant, but I also just went forth trying to make a great superhero film the same way I would have with any of them, which was great.”
Wonder Woman will arrive on June 2nd.