"Some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service," The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan said earlier this week in a scathing message to Warner Bros.
The filmmaker was talking about the studio's decision to release its entire 2021 slate on HBO Max, and while Wonder Woman 1984 will be the first film to hit the streamer and theaters at the same time, director Patty Jenkins appears to be siding with Nolan in this particular discussion.
"I agree with Chris," Jenkins tells CNN, presumably not referring to HBO Max being the "worst" streaming service. "I don't think it's great for the future of filmmaking when Covid has passed. However, our film was different. It was presented in a very different way, which is that we are at the height of the pandemic right now and people are really suffering and struggling and the choices are to sit on our film and wait or to release it."
Another big difference is that Jenkins and star Gal Gadot received back-end payments equivalent to what the film would have made had it grossed $1 billion at the global box office.
The Wonder Woman 1984 helmer went on to share her take on why now is the right time to release the DC film, saying she's "so touched and moved that it's going to happen in people's homes when they can't go places and still happen in theaters where they can." However, Jenkins later added, "I'm with Chris, I'm going to go right back to being a partner to the theatrical business. That's what I make films for."
This is a topic that continues to divide opinions, and no filmmaker's take is likely to change that right now.
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