Film company Warner Bros. unveiled the first trailer of the sequel to the superhero movie Wonder Woman. The video at the presentation in the framework of the Comic Con Experience festival held in Brazil was presented by the leading actor Gal Gadot and the director of the film Patty Jenkins.

The film "Wonder Woman: 1984" takes place decades after the events described in the first tape. Billionaire Maxwell Lord (as is customary, in the hope of world domination) is trying to find some kind of magical artifact. Unfortunately, the find turns an ancient history expert, Barbara Anne Minerva, into a monster - the catwoman Cheetah. Minerva intends to avenge the Lord for these metamorphoses, and he is forced to seek protection from Wonder Woman Diana Prince.

To the surprise (or not) of the movie comic book fans, the actor Chris Pine will return to the role of Steve Trevor in the sequel. According to the synopsis of the plot, the same Lord with the help of magic artifacts resurrects a hero who sacrificed himself in the final of the first film.

“Steve Trevor was added to the plot for a reason that Steve Trevor was in the film,” Jenkins said at the presentation. According to her, when writing the script, "an insight came, and the story was impossible to tell without Chris Payne in the role of Steve Trevor."

In addition to Gadot and Pyne in the caste of the tape you can find Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig, Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen. According to Jenkins, the creators of the picture sought to remove the action movie of the 1980s era (which, in essence, is also evident from the trailer to which the New Order hit Blue Monday was picked up).

“Real cables, real field shooting, and now also with modern technologies - that is, today you see how real people perform real tricks on the site,” the director noted.

Jenkins also said that a spin-off to Wonder Woman is currently under development - a film about the Amazons Temiskira (Femiskira), the birthplace of Diana Prince. This time - without the participation of Gadot.

In the comics, under the name Cheetahs, several heroines appeared, and Barbara Ann Minerva was the third in a row. According to the plot of one of the line of graphic novels, Minerva is a wealthy girl, passionate about archeology. She becomes obsessed with the lasso of Truth - an artifact owned by Wonder Woman - and intends to take him by deception. However, touching the lasso, Minerva immediately tells the whole truth about her intentions.

Then the girl tries to take away the lasso, having reincarnated as the Cheetah (she received the gift of reincarnation from the priests of one of the African tribes, however, the force gives a side effect - the heroine experiences excruciating pain in a human appearance).

It is noteworthy that initially the role of the Cheetahs was offered to Emma Stone, but she refused to work on "Wonder Woman". Only after that did Kristen Wiig offer to play the villain.

From feminism to LGBT

The first solo film about one of the most popular superheroes was released worldwide in 2017, although Wonder Woman first appeared on the pages of the DC comics in the early 1940s. Its creator - psychologist, theorist of feminism and polygraph inventor William Moulton Marston - believed that American comics lack superheroes. So he, inspired by the ancient Greek warriors and women from the immediate environment, came up with a new character.

Marston, his wife Elizabeth and their sweetheart Olivia were involved in the suffragist movement. Therefore, Diana Prince developed under the direct influence of feminist ideas. For Marston, Wonder Woman became a symbol of humanism, female independence, and pacifism. However, with the death of the psychologist and in the post-war period, the ideas of emancipation in comics were leveled by other authors.

  • Shot from the film “Wonder Woman”
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In the 1970s, activists of the second wave of feminism widely exploited the image of Wonder Woman in order to spread ideas against sexual discrimination. In those years, the first television series about Diane Prince with Linda Carter in the title role was released.

Meanwhile, the character continued to evolve, and in 2015, Prince became the first comic book superhero to host a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple. Then one of the authors of the comic book Greg Cancer officially stated that Wonder Woman is bisexual.