Wonder Woman 2 To Be Set During The Cold War & Could Steve Trevor Return

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Wonder Woman is slowly coming to the end of its box office run worldwide and will most likely end with a total of $800 million or slightly over (currently at $745.5 million worldwide).

Now with DC Films’ co-chief Geoff Johns already revealing that he and the film’s original director Patty Jenkins are working on a story and the script for the sequel with the rumour being it’ll be another period piece.

The original rumour started with The Wrap’s Umberto Gonzalez and Jeff Snider of The Tracking Board (via Popcorn Talk Network’s Meet The Movie Press), but now Screenrant is coming out and saying Wonder Woman 2 will be set in 1980’s during the Cold War.

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— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) 20 June 2017

Hey @ShowbizSimon, didn't I say WONDER WOMAN 2 would be set during the Cold War on MEET THE MOVIE PRESS weeks ago? Seeing it as "news" now.

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) 11 July 2017

The website is stating “the film will send Diana against the forces of Soviet Union in the closing days of the Cold War.”

This seems to be a smart way to go in the series as WW2 will still be on its own within the wider DCEU and will give more backstory we got introduced by Gal Gadot in Batman v Superman and story wise swapping the battlefield to more of the espionage of the 80s would be pretty awesome.

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Even though Jenkins hasn’t signed on the dotted line to come back to helm the sequel, it has to be the top thing for Warner Bros to get sorted out and maybe we’ll hear the confirmation next Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con.

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Screenrant is also reporting Chris Pine is returning to the sequel as Steve Trevor despite being blown to pieces across a field in Belgium.

Given how his death impacted Diana to become more harden character we met in BvS and how the end of Wonder Woman gave her love in her heart again, I don’t think he’ll be coming back from the dead.

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Instead, the only two ways they can do it as multiple flashbacks or the grandson route and I think the smart thing is the grandson.

Before you roll your eyes, think about it, in the first film Diana was about her maturing from a wide-eyed outsider to a passionate, strong demigod and saw how mankind really is. Throughout the film, Pine’s Steve Trevor was holding her hand and guiding her through his world.

Now moving forward about 70 years, Diana has seen multiple wars and this time the roles would be reversed with Wonder Woman leading the new Steve Trevor (named after his war hero grandfather) into stopping this war.

Furthermore, before you scream “STEVER TREVOR NEVER HAD KIDS!” However, during an interview for Wonder Woman Pine does believe Steve had a family.

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“With Steve, I always viewed it that he probably had been in love before and he probably did have a lady, maybe even a family, and lost that to this awful conflict. The thought of falling in love is so painful for him that he could not allow himself to do it. It had to be about the mission, it had to be God and country, but it could not be him and what he wanted.”

This would make sense has Steve never fully gave into his feelings for Diana and was so mission focused and who knows, maybe Steve didn’t know he was going to be a dad before joining the army.

Finally, I know in these cinematic universes we want everything to connect, and unlike Marvel maybe not have everything tie into every individual film and have these DC Films have these solo films tell its own story.

Jenkins as recently talked about her hesitations for telling another Wonder Woman story and her “epiphany” and I think we should keep this in mind.

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“I had an epiphany about Wonder Woman 2. I was like, ‘you don’t have to do this. It doesn’t have to be a foregone conclusion that you do Wonder Woman 2.’ But then as I was falling asleep I had an epiphany.

“I was like, ‘Wait a minute. You have the greatest character of all time that you love dearly, with a cast that you love sitting at the palm of your hand at this day and age – you can do whatever you want with them – are you crazy?’ And then I suddenly, it’s not more, it’s another movie. It’s its own movie. And it’s got to be great” added Jenkins.

Because she doesn’t want to make “another movie” and instead have Wonder Woman 2 be “its own movie. And it’s got to be great” should get fans super excited for the possibilities has she basically told the origin story she wanted, why not give her the “cast that she loves” again.

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