Variety has a piece up with acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin speaking to Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins. The filmmaker talks openly about her second trip to the DCEU, and admits that Warner Bros. executives had concerns about the sequel right "in the middle" of production.
This understandably left Jenkins with the task of ensuring she could get the film where it needed to be, and it seems the complicated plot (an issue for many critics) was what worried studio bosses.
"The hardest challenge is keeping the map in your head and not losing faith," confesses Jenkins. "I think it’s absolutely imperative that you have your script done and you think it’s great. I don’t understand how people do it when things are changing. I don’t know how you could keep track of it. I’m not a believer in that. I’m not a believer in studios doing it. I wish they would stop doing it — get your shit together and get your script written before you start making a movie. It drives me nuts."
"So we did very thorough writing, and then every single day, you have to have faith in the writer in you and then in the artists that you worked with to make a plan, that the plan is going to work. But let me tell you, it’s absolutely fascinating to have to wait so long to see it come together. This was such a complicated film that even in the middle, the studio was like, 'I don’t know about these things.' I was like, 'You can’t judge it yet. We don’t have the effects in. So it looks stupid now, but you have to wait.' Carrying that is very lonely."
It sounds like Jenkins was under a great deal of pressure, but with a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems Warner Bros. made the right decision to keep faith in the filmmaker's vision for where the film should go.
After the success of 2017's Wonder Woman, it would have been a major mistake not allowing the director to tell this story without studio interference, though we've yet to see what fans think of it.
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