Studios, Leavesden in England, as well as the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the U.S., London and Duxford in England, Tenerife and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands and Almería in Andalusia, Spain. Principal photography began on June 13, 2018, with filming taking place at Warner Bros. Set in 1984 during the Cold War, the film follows Diana and her past love Steve Trevor as they face off against Maxwell Lord and Cheetah.ĭiscussion of a sequel began shortly after the release of the first film in June 2017 and the decision to proceed was confirmed the following month. Directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Jenkins, Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham from a story by Johns and Jenkins, it stars Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, alongside Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen. Pictures, it is the sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman and the ninth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Pictures, Atlas Entertainment and The Stone Quarry, and distributed by Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 (also known as WW84 ) is a 2020 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman. Outside Diana battles and eventually defeats Cheetah (aka Barbara) before rushing in to see Max engulfed in the power of the Dreamstone.$166.8 million Read the transcript “I’ll pray that isn’t true,” he replies, shortly before Diana strides away, renouncing her wish and then flinging herself into the sky to fly to the world’s rescue (yes, Wonder Woman can fly sometimes), before donning the ancient Amazonian armour that she (handily) kept stored away for just such an occasion.īeginning his broadcast, Max begins to grant the wish of every person of Earth, causing even more disruption and chaos (and unbeknownst to him, putting his young son in danger) and taking people’s health, power and life force to restore himself.
Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros) SEACĮn route to the broadcast, Max offers to grant Barbara a new wish (despite her having already had one from the original Dreamstone, it’s possible that Max’s status as a “new” Dreamstone reset the count somewhat), and she opts to become an “apex predator,” even more powerful (and animalistic) than she is now.īack in DC, Steve opts to insist that Diana let him go, restoring her abilities for the final battle. kill Max) or have everyone renounce their wishes – which would include Diana and Barbara, banishing Steve back to death and turning Barbara back to her old self.īack at the White House, after taking the power and authority of the US President (in return for giving him a massive new concentration of nuclear weapons) Max has himself taken to the site of the special broadcast, escaping Diana with the help of Barbara, who is desperate to maintain her newfound strength. Meanwhile, Diana and Steve have learned from a Mayan expert that the Dreamstone was responsible for the collapse of multiple civilisations across history, and that the only way to stop this happening again is to destroy it (i.e.
Wonder Woman 1984 ending explainedĪt the film’s conclusion, Max is desperate to “touch” more people and grant their wishes to gain more power (and restore his ailing health), and learns of a secret US programme to take over the airwaves of any TV station around the world, intended to broadcast messages during war campaigns to the local populace. Max’s acquisition of oil send the market into chaos, various countries become unstable and declare war on one another after he returns ancestral lands to an oil tycoon, and general riots break out around the world. Ingeniously, this allows him to acquire the wealth and influence of those around him, right up to the President of the United States, but the quest to take more and more drives him to more extreme actions.Īs this continues, the world is thrown into chaos. Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros)įollowing this, Max grants the wishes of anyone and everyone he meets, then picks what precious commodity to take from them.