Following James Gunn and Peter Safran's ousting from DC Studios, there's a great deal of uncertainty surrounding what the DCU's future looks like. Will new DC Studios CEO Jeremy Latcham attempt to continue the "GunnVerse," or should fans brace themselves for yet another reboot?
One possibility is that DC gives up on trying to create an MCU-style shared world and instead goes back to producing largely standalone movies (with the Justice League franchise the only place these heroes cross paths).
If Latcham does reboot, it could mean we see a lineup of fresh faces or perhaps even a mix of actors from the DCEU and DCU. The latter option is risky, but not impossible, and fans are now convinced that Skydance CEO David Ellison is hinting at Gal Gadot's return as Wonder Woman.
Ellison attended an event at the Simon Wiesenthal Center last night, where Skydance's Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz was honoured. In one of the two photos shared by the executive, he and Kreiz are joined by Gadot.
The comments beneath the post on X are flooded with mentions of Wonder Woman, with the vast majority either campaigning for Gadot's return or sharing their belief that she's about to get another shot at playing Diana Prince. Even if this isn't a tease, Ellison's apparent friendship with Gadot could open some doors.
This comes after a Variety report mentioned that Skydance "was less than enthusiastic with how 'Man of Tomorrow' was shaping up, and now wants to edit out a lot of Gunn’s Easter-egg ephemera." It's possible then that Adria Arjona's Wonder Woman is left on the cutting room floor, thereby leaving the door open to Gadot's return.
The response from fans to this decision would surely be mixed. Gadot is a polarising figure whose performances as the Amazon have been met with praise and scorn in equal measure. However, she also headlined a Wonder Woman movie that grossed $823 million worldwide, and that's only slightly less than the earnings of all three DCU films combined.
"They told me the opposite," Gadot said in September when asked whether Gunn and Peter Safran told her that her time as Wonder Woman was over. "They were like, 'We're going to develop it with you.' But I saw the way everybody else was handled, right? The Henry situation was not handled elegantly, to say the least. Same with Patty. [It] was not handled elegantly."
"I feel like, you know, we're all adults and it's all good. And it's not even about them. They are there, and they're there to do what they believe in, and it's all good," she continued. "I'm so grateful that I got the opportunity to wear these boots and to have the character be so celebrated and be the vessel at that point in time."
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