Rumor: Wonder Woman Movie Will Be A Pre-World War II Period Piece

On a semi-regular basis, Bleeding Cool will liven up an otherwise slow comics-related news day with a juicy rumor. This one qualifies: the Wonder Woman movie is reported to take place in the 1920s, with a sequel jumping forward to World War II and the third movie (kind of presumptuous of Warner Bros., but hey) set in the present. Rich Johnston cites sources “who have seen the geenlit treatment.”

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My first thought is that this is a cool move, especially since it will help differentiate it from the glut of other super hero movies coming in the next five years. Certainly, the thought of an Amazon in a society where women are just beginning their march toward equality is ripe with possibilities.

It is a little deviation from the source material, though, and it will raise some interesting questions about the movie version of Diana. Will she effectively be immortal? She’d almost have to be to show up in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice looking like … well, like Gal Gadot. And while Johnston uses the first Captain America movie as an example of how a super hero movie set in the past can work, it’s worth noting that The First Avenger did nice but not outstanding business at the box office, so it’s not a move that would be without some risk.

File this one away for later, for sure.

(via Bleeding Cool)

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