BvS can't be canon if Diana is operating in the 80's."According to #Empire, #BatmanvSuperman is still canon in #WW84, and #Diana works at the #SmithsonianMuseum to keep track of any dangerous or mystical items, and lives in the #Watergate complex, where she has a view in any direction of Washington and can monitor the US government.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
Surely one element of a movie that isn't adhered to doesn't invalidate the whole thing. If that were the case the Marvel movies would be disconnected, because it seems like there's always some inconsistent element in each of those movies. Still, the fact that there will probably never be anymore Henry Cavill or Ben Affleck movies in the DC franchise makes the whole thing moot.
I've just stopped caring about continuity with other movies. As far as I'm concerned this is a standalone sequel to the original film.
They made a point in BvS and JL that Diana was out of the picture. In BvS, Bruce asks where she's been, and she ultimately says that she walked away from mankind 100 years ago. Gadot and Jenkins were very much against that idea and took it out in WW. They tried to further rub out Snyder's take in JL, where Diana states she helped where she could, but it was still the belief that she only came out of hiding to find her dead boyfriend's picture.
Now, Gadot and Jenkins note that Diana is quietly on the lookout for lost magical items (which could explain how she got her new shield and sword, seen in BvS) and that she's set up shop in the Watergate hotel to keep an eye on the U.S. government. In that case, it would makes sense that she doesn't want to be spotted by cameras. However, that plan goes to hell when she has a full-on brawl in the White House.
It'll be really interesting to see where they go with Diana in a third movie. Will they fully break from the Snyder narrative and just make her a known public figure?
I expect that if WB wants to do a clear break from the Snyderverse movies, then Wonder Woman is the character who ought to get the honour.
But I'm not sure a clean break is needed. Trying to retcon them is more trouble than it's worth. Simpler to just ignore them, or keep around some very vague references (like Aquaman did).
I think this is due to a deep understanding of Wonder Woman's character from Patty Jenkins and her team. Diana doesn't think of herself as Wonder Woman, because she doesn't have a separate hero identity.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
Yeah, if she goes public then she'll probably get a codename. It's weird that she's the only member of the Trinity who has never had her codename uttered in her own movie .
I think i saw somewhere that Diana is called Wonder Woman in the 2017 movie—but in French.
Can't check it myself; my French is sadly deficient.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])