Spoilers ahead for Wonder Woman, if you haven’t seen it yet…
The biggest dangling question about the sequel to Warner Bros. and DC’s smash hit 2017 comic book effort Wonder Woman is still “how the hell is Chris Pine in it?” Diana’s brave WWI pilot love interest Steve Trevor kicked the bucket rather firmly at the end of the first film, and yet the publicity for Wonder Woman 1984 has been very upfront about showing the character’s return, in a track suit no less.
In a new interview with AM To DM, director Patty Jenkins has confirmed that she was planning to bring back Pine in the midst of mulling ideas for the sequel, and before the first film was even finished.
“I thought of what this next movie should be in the middle of making the first movie, so it wasn’t a solution to ‘Oh, that worked out, let’s try to jam [Pine] in there.’ It’s all incredibly important to the story,” she explained. “It makes perfect sense, that’s all I can tell you.”
And don’t let the ridiculous mall aesthetic from what we’ve seen so far of the film fool you – apparently, Wonder Woman 1984 will be taking its ’80s setting quite seriously:
You can see the full interview below…
Wonder Woman 1984 opens on June 5, 2020. You can read a complete guide to everything we know about the film right here.
In the meantime, Jenkins and Pine have been working together on a new TV series, I Am The Night, which gets underway on Jan. 28 on TNT.
