wonder woman 3 depends on how successful WW1984 will be. The first one, Domestically did well but worldwide it has been the least successful of DCEU movies. If the sequel manages to secure earnings similar to the first it will get a third, a lower box office from the first movie means it will have to wait.
A 2022 target date for WW3 is far fetched, it is nearly impossible to produce and release such movie in 2 years.
Note that for the studios, a domestic dollar is worth more than foreign dollars (they get a much higher percentage of the gross). When production and marketing costs are included, the only DCEU movie that can compete with Wonder Woman is Aquaman.
And you are assuming that DC/WB waits for the release of WW84 to start working on the third Wonder Woman movie. Given that they pushed WW84 to summer 2020, I wouldn't be surprised if they are ready to start working on WW3 before the release of WW84. Main issue would be the workload for Patty Jenkins (given that she has to lead post-production of WW84 and be very involved with pre-production for WW3) and having everyone's schedule lined up.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were producing WW3 in 2020 already.
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I know that the domestic earnings matters a lot. Don't forget that the first WW was an origin story, Personally I expect the sequel to succeed as well, Patty Jenkins is a guarantee, but you can never tell with the audiences. If it earns less it will have to wait.
As for a potential WW3 being produced in 2020, not likely, even aquaman has to wait till 2022. WB/DC didn't expect WW and AM to be such a success, they had to change their plans, postpone or push to a later release other movies.
in my opinion what is not necessary is another SS movie. Waste of time and resources, it would have been better to have a Flash movie instead. SS is part of the DCEU that is considered a failure. It took Patty Jenkins WW to save DC mainly from failures such as SS. BTW even Justice League got a better foreign gross and that speaks volumes. Next time around many like myself will not be fooled in watching SS. Once bitten twice shy.
Why would WW84 being less profitable than the first WW movie mean that the third movie would have to wait? Sure, if WW84 bombs it is one thing, but I don't expect anyone for the movie to bomb.
And remember that a lot of the movies being bandied around here on various schedules in the post-2020 timeframe are just tossed around in fantasy schedules, with few firm commitments on directors, actors, or schedules. In comparison, Aquaman 2 and WW3 are much more firm: WB wants specific people to do the stuff, and those people are already involved in the projects and known quantities.
I'm not saying that WB will produce WW3 already in 2020, but it certainly would be doable for them, schedules for key personnel permitting.
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WB has said that it will take a movie at a time. To an extent that they have pushed Aquaman to 2022, even in consideration of competition. WB seems to me very aware that it stands to lose always to Marvel and to James Cameron.
But also because they have movies like batman and SS2 in 2021. Batman will always be batman, although I think there is a bat fatigue with audiences, it will perform in the range of the first WW, while SS2 was not necessary at all.
Looking at the WB history it will be unlikely they will have WW3 in the same year with AM2.
Although personally I would prefer to see more WW and AM. For me it would have been ideal to have AM2 in 2021 instead of SS2 and WW3 in 2022 in place of Aquaman.
I disagree. I think WB took too long to make a sequel to SS. Movie made mad money after savage reviews even without China. Will be interesting to see how the sequel does after a long break and no Will Smith. I think Gunn has his work cut out for him after the bad reviews and long wait.
To make SS sequel in 2021 they had to push Aquaman the goose that lays golden eggs in 2022. Wasting the 2021 slot.
SS performed worse than Justice league in foreign gross and it is considered part of the DCEU that failed. Had it not been for Jenkins and Wan, today the DCEU would have come to an end.
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