On Italia 1 this evening Wonder Woman will be broadcast, a cinecomic directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot. Let’s find out together the details on the plot, the cast and some curiosities about the film.
Broadcast this evening on Italia 1 at 21.20 Wonder Woman it is the first film about heroin A.D directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot as the Amazon Diana Prince/Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman on Italia 1: plot, cast and curiosities about the cinecomic with Gal Gadot
In the film of Patty Jenkinsthe origin of the princess of the Amazons is told: raised on the remote and mythical island of Themiscyra, Diana (Gal Gadot) spent his childhood and adolescence training under the watchful eye of his mother, Ipoolita (Connie Nielsen), and the guide to Antiope (Robin Wright). When the plane of a young pilot, Steve Trevor, crashes on the island of the Amazons (Chris Pine), the princess discovers that a bloody war is going on in the world of humans and that men do nothing but kill each other, sowing destruction and pain. This situation is caused by Ares, the god of war, who hides among humans, concealing his true identity. Determined to end the war and against Hippolyta’s will, Diana abandons Themiscyra and vows to protect humanity, after finding Ares and eliminating him. But, the world of men is more complex than Diana can imagine and evil can lurk even under the mildest appearance…
In the cast, alongside Gal Gadot we find Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, David Thewlis, Patrick Morgan, Danny Houston, Elena Anaya And Lucy Davis. The film had a sequel in 2021, Wonder Woman 1984in which they return Patty Jenikns directing and Gal Gadot in the role of the protagonist. However, despite the fact that a third installment of the franchise was also announced, the arrival of James Gunn And Peter Safran leading the DC Studios and the decision to cancel the third film on the character have not upset the plans on Wonder Woman. The director of Guardians of the Galaxy has revealed that however the character of Diana Prince is a priority of the DC Studios and that it is his intention to bring it back to the big screen.
Wonder Woman was interpreted, before Gal Gadoton the small screen from Linda Carter in the famous TV series of the 70s and who appears in a brief cameo in the second film dedicated to the heroine. The character in the comics, created by the professor William Moulton Marston and his wife Elizabeth Holloway (whose story is also told in the Netflix film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women), it was then reinvented by George Perezwhose name appears in the credits among the acknowledgments, and it is this version that inspired it Patty Jenkins. In fact, the director changed the origin of Diana Prince, making her the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus and not a clay figure to which the divinities gave life.