'Wonder Woman' Movie Release Date: Production to Start This Fall, June 2017 Premiere
The legendary Amazonian princess of DC Comics will finally get her own movie. "Wonder Woman," the movie will start filming in the fall of 2015. DC Comics and Warner Brothers already announced a release date for the movie on June 23, 2017.
Gal Gadot, an Israeli model and actress who also starred in the last three "Fast & Furious" movies, has long been cast to play the superhero and warrior princess. She will first appear in the upcoming "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" in May 2016.
Reports confirm that Michelle Maclaren will be at the directorial helm. Jason Fuchs who recently finished writing for the movie "Pan," is writing the script for "Wonder Woman."
Consistent plot rumors say that the setting of the movie will be in the 1920s, at a time when the world is "still cold on female equality," according a report in Moviehole.
Cinema Blend in another report notes that 2017 will also be same year that DC will release "Justice League Part 1," continuing from the events of "Batman vs. Superman." It said that Wonder Woman will also appear in this film. It is too early to tell if this solo film will be developed into a series, or if the character will again appear in "Justice League Part 2.". Gadot was said to have signed a three-picture contract only.
The character of Wonder Woman has so many iterations in TV and comics history. Cinema Blend said that it was Jack Znyder who introduced the character in "Batman vs. Superman" who decided that she will be a "bada-- warrior woman."
Wonder Woman as part of DC Comics is said to date as far back as 1941. She eventually got her own comic series. In the late 1970s, actress Lynda Carter played the character in a TV series that ran for three seasons.
