Gal Gadot’s Diana of Themyscira made her debut in director Zack Snyder’s 2016 hit Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before getting her own solo movie in the 2017 global blockbuster Wonder Woman. She then joined her fellow DC superhero legends in 2019’s Justice League, which received a proper follow-up in the Snyder Cut of the film in 2021, and meanwhile appeared in 2020’s Wonder Woman 1984.
Since then, Wonder Woman’s fate – at least as the hero of another solo film – has been up in the air. Financially, Wonder Woman 1984 was a box office disaster, earning just $166 million worldwide against a $200 million budget in a hybrid theatrical-streaming release during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020 and early 2021.
Throwing Wonder Woman’s future into further chaos, directors James Gunn and Peter Safran were tapped to helm Warner Bros. new DC Film and TV division at the end of October 2022. Even before Gadot’s cameo in Shazam! sequel and The Flash, Gunn and Safran’s plans to reboot the DC Universe for each film were announced, but Wonder Woman 3 was not among them.
Despite all the setbacks, Gadot weighed in on the future of her involvement in the franchise months after Gunn and Safran’s announcement. Speaking about whether Wonder Woman 3 will happen, Gadot told Comic Book in August 2023: “From what I’ve heard from James (Gunn) and Peter (Safran), we’re going to develop Wonder Woman 3 together.” . “
Shortly after the comic book report, an inside source told Variety that Gadot was never promised anything regarding a third Wonder Woman film.