It's no secret that filmmaker Zack Snyder had some pretty unique ideas for the DC Extended Universe, and it's now been confirmed that one of them included tying Wonder Woman to Superman in an unexpected way.
We've heard that he considered revealing the Kryptonians who escaped Man of Steel's scout ship would have potentially been Earth's first Amazons, and Snyder elaborated on the idea during this weekend's "Full Circle" event. Talking about Diana Prince's introduction in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he explained that the Greek God Zeus was going to "possibly be a Kryptonian."
He was revealed as Diana's father in Wonder Woman, of course, and this would have meant the hero was descended from the same alien species as Kal-El.
"The whole thing of whether magic and the gods....there's a version where, okay, that's cool, I guess. But there's also the more scientific...where do gods come from?" Snyder reflected "We had played around with that quite a bit."
Visual effects supervisor John "D.J." Des Jardin then weighed in to share another scrapped concept. This one was going to reveal that the alien ship we saw in Man of Steel was crashed into the ice by Ares, with the Wonder Woman villain killing the Kryptonians aboard, once again connecting Diana with Superman in an unexpected way.
There's nothing inherently wrong with either of these ideas, but it feels like creating connective tissue for the sake of it rather than for a significant story reason.
While Wonder Woman's role in the new DCU is unclear, we will learn more about the origins of Themyscira in a new Max TV series that's been compared to Game of Thrones by DC Studios.
Check out Snyder's comments in full below.