Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins says studio Warner Bros. made her change the original ending of the film “at the last minute,” pushing for a larger-scale superhero battle between the Amazon warrior of the same name (Gal Gadot) and Ares (David Thewlis). In the First World War Wonder Woman, Diana Prince mistakenly believes that it is German Army General Erich Ludendorff (Danny Huston) who is secretly the God of War. When Wonder Woman confronts the real Ares and declines his offer to join forces and save the war-torn world of humans, the Themysciran and the Ancient God collide in an epic battle far greater than the ending Jenkins envisioned. had:
“The original ending of the first film was also smaller, but the studio forced me to change it at the last minute. So that’s always been a bit of a shame that that’s all people talk about, because I agreed Jenkins said. IGN while promoting the sequel Wonder Woman 1984. “And I told the studio we didn’t have time for it, but it was what it was. I loved it, but that wasn’t the original ending of the movie.”
WW84 Diana takes on Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) and Cheetah (Kristen Wiig), making for a more intimate and smaller showdown that is no less flashy for a superhero finale.
“This time I loved that it has both at the end. We had visual effects [fight], a big fight that I just got into and I had such a great execution, which I was so pleased with, “Jenkins said.” But in the end, the end of the movie is much more subdued, and that was really fun. No spoilers, all kinds of things happen, but it was a lot of fun to shape it differently. “
Despite the oft-criticized ending, Jenkins believes it would have been a “mistake” for Wonder Woman so as not to somehow pit the superheroine against the God of War.
“In my opinion it would have been a mistake to make a first Wonder Woman film without her absolute arch-rival nemesis Ares, the most classic villain in lore and the counterpart of her point of view. She’s a god and he’s a god, and he knows something she doesn’t know and made a choice based on that, ”said Jenkins in the Wonder Woman comment. He saw the weakness in his father’s creation and is trying to show the world how wicked humanity is and therefore destroy them and get rid of them. She learns the same in her journey and finally says, ‘Oh my god, it’s all those things, “but she makes the opposite choice.”
Jenkins added, “If her story is about a shift in point of view, his storyline is a participant in that story, rather than being a villain, which is the point of the movie.”
Wonder Woman 1984 releases in theaters and on HBO Max on December 25.