In the world of DC Comics three superheroes are usually treated as the standards, known as the Trilogy. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are some of the earliest superheroes for then National Comics to have survived to this day. And yet, while Superman and Batman have had numerous live-action and animated TV series and movies, Wonder Woman has been relegated to one TV series, one animated movie, and a bunch of failed pilots, only one of which was good on its own merits. Cathy Lee Crosby is no Linda Carter but the movie itself is good.
Meanwhile you have the DC Extended Universe, Warner Brothers’ attempt to create their own version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but by ignoring the comic roots while Marvel Studios embraced them. It ended up that the Marvel movies felt more like the DC Universe than the actual DC movies did, and that’s still holding true in most DC media today, including the comics as Dan DiDio tries to return the comics to the New 52 style of storytelling, the opposite of what made the DC Universe last so long…but I’m getting off track. The DCEU movies have done so badly that Warner Brothers seems to be about to scrap the idea and just complete the movies in production, although Wonder Woman was successful enough that it’s getting a sequel.
We can go over the failings of the DCEU some other time. What made Wonder Woman stand out? Was it the fact that the director was a woman, like we’re being told, did they just make a good movie that people actually praised, and how did it fare as an adaptation versus Spider-Man: Homecoming? Let’s find out.
RELEASE DATE: 2017
RELEASED BY: Warner Brothers
RUNTIME: 2 hours, 21 minutes
STARRING: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Hutson, David Thewlis, Elana Anaya, and Lucy Davis
SCREENWRITERS: Allan Heinberg, based on a story co-written with Zac Snyder and Jason Fuchs
DIRECTOR: Patty Jenkins
GROSS INCOME: $821,763,408 out of an estimated budget of $149,000,000
