Gal Gadot Set To Return As Wonder Woman For Third Film

[Amadeus Arkham]

Gal Gadot Developing Wonder Woman 3 With James Gunn, Peter Safran (Exclusive)

Speaking to ComicBook.com's Chris Killian for her new Netflix movie Heart of Stone, Gadot said that, as she understands it, she will be developing Wonder Woman 3 together with Gunn and Safran. "I love portraying Wonder Woman," Gadot says. "It's so close to and dear to my heart. From what I heard from James and from Peter is that we're gonna develop a Wonder Woman 3 together."

I much prefer a new actress over keeping Gadot. I want a clean slate, but hey if Gunn and Safran wants to keep her fine, but I’m considerably less excited though.

[Pascal]

A new actress would have been better for the sake of clean slate but Gal Gadot was good in the role.

She was not the greatest actress but she had the beauty, charisma and showed the empathy that was needed to be Wonder Woman.

[Jim Kelly]

I much prefer a new actress over keeping Gadot. I want a clean slate, but hey if Gunn and Safran wants to keep her fine, but I’m considerably less excited though.

If you have someone in mind that could do a better job as Wonder Woman, please post it. For me Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter are the best to have ever played Wonder Woman (you can argue about the quality of the writing for some of the things they were in, but that's hardly their fault). I think if you're going to kick out Gal Gadot, you'd better have someone to play Princess Diana who would make us forget Gal. Maybe in ten years that will be possible, but right now the current Wonder Woman is too fresh in everyone's minds.

[James Cameron]

From the earth to the sea

[Amadeus Arkham]

If you have someone in mind that could do a better job as Wonder Woman, please post it. For me Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter are the best to have ever played Wonder Woman (you can argue about the quality of the writing for some of the things they were in, but that's hardly their fault). I think if you're going to kick out Gal Gadot, you'd better have someone to play Princess Diana who would make us forget Gal. Maybe in ten years that will be possible, but right now the current Wonder Woman is too fresh in everyone's minds.

I respect that. I will refrain from any fan suggestions as I don’t have any actor in mind, but I will say that I do think it’s a better to just simply recast for a new universe rather than simply reuse the same actress from a dead universe. If they keep Gal, I’m fine with it but it’s not ideal to me.

[Jackalope89]

While I like Gal in the role, but, it does feel a bit weird with pretty much all the other big names replaced. Hopefully Movie 3 is better, (written, received, etc) than the last.

[ChrisIII]

Wonder if they can actually bring back Steve/Pine as well, with him being resurrected due to some multiverse hijinks/whatever happened in the Flash instead of possessing some other guy's body.

[Bunch of Coconuts]

If you have someone in mind that could do a better job as Wonder Woman, please post it. For me Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter are the best to have ever played Wonder Woman (you can argue about the quality of the writing for some of the things they were in, but that's hardly their fault). I think if you're going to kick out Gal Gadot, you'd better have someone to play Princess Diana who would make us forget Gal. Maybe in ten years that will be possible, but right now the current Wonder Woman is too fresh in everyone's minds.

Who else has played Wonder Woman in love action?

[krazijoe]

Who else has played Wonder Woman in love action?

Well, Adrianne Palicki had that pilot that went no where...

[kidfresh512]

If you have someone in mind that could do a better job as Wonder Woman, please post it. For me Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter are the best to have ever played Wonder Woman (you can argue about the quality of the writing for some of the things they were in, but that's hardly their fault). I think if you're going to kick out Gal Gadot, you'd better have someone to play Princess Diana who would make us forget Gal. Maybe in ten years that will be possible, but right now the current Wonder Woman is too fresh in everyone's minds.

Why though? Batman gets changed every few years. Hell they have 2 -3 movie Batmen at the same time sometimes if you include Flash recently. Wonder Woman and Superman shouldn't be shuffled off into purgatory if a film doesnt do well.

DC should be able to get their Trinity in good well received movies. All the failures and flops are their fault.

[newparisian]

Katheryn Winnick, who played Lagertha on the Vikings tv show, would be excellent. She's 45 so I'm sure execs will balk at that as the start of a new set of films. But she looks fierce and is an excellent actor, both of which Gal Gadot is not.

Here's a great fight scene:

[Jim Kelly]

There was an attempt at a Wonder Woman T.V. show in 1967, with an unaired pilot starring Ellie Wood Walker. Then in 1974 there was a T.V. movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby. But it was the Lynda Carter T.V. movie that proved the charm in 1975. And for decades after, that was the Wonder Woman that was stuck in the public's imagination. Which I think is one reason it was so hard to get a Wonder Woman movie or T.V. show off the ground, despite the many attempts to do so with different women (including Sandra Bullock).

It really depends on how closely one actor is associated with the character. For years, George Reeves was Superman in everyone's mind until finally Christopher Reeve took on the cape. But then it was Chris Reeve who everyone thought of as Superman and making a movie with another actor was stuck in production hell. Adam West was so completely associated with Batman that any new Batman movie was a losing option, until finally Michael Keaton was able to disprove the cynics. But then when they tried to replace Keaton with other actors, it didn't sit well with audiences. They had to wait until BATMAN BEGINS and really THE DARK KNIGHT before Christian Bale was accepted as the Batman.

Having finally won over audiences, decades after Lynda Carter, with the Patty Jenkins/Gal Gadot version--I just don't think they can pull it off with another woman as the iconic Wonder Woman. On the other hand, if someone else were to step in as a different Wonder Woman that might work.

Also, given they showed Patty Jenkins the door, maybe they will want to get people on their side by at least using Gal Gadot to generate good will.

[newparisian]

There was an attempt at a Wonder Woman T.V. show in 1967, with an unaired pilot starring Ellie Wood Walker. Then in 1974 there was a T.V. movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby. But it was the Lynda Carter T.V. movie that proved the charm in 1975. And for decades after, that was the Wonder Woman that was stuck in the public's imagination. Which I think is one reason it was so hard to get a Wonder Woman movie or T.V. show off the ground, despite the many attempts to do so with different women (including Sandra Bullock).

It really depends on how closely one actor is associated with the character. For years, George Reeves was Superman in everyone's mind until finally Christopher Reeve took on the cape. But then it was Chris Reeve who everyone thought of as Superman and making a movie with another actor was stuck in production hell. Adam West was so completely associated with Batman that any new Batman movie was a losing option, until finally Michael Keaton was able to disprove the cynics. But then when they tried to replace Keaton with other actors, it didn't sit well with audiences. They had to wait until BATMAN BEGINS and really THE DARK KNIGHT before Christian Bale was accepted as the Batman.

Having finally won over audiences, decades after Lynda Carter, with the Patty Jenkins/Gal Gadot version--I just don't think they can pull it off with another woman as the iconic Wonder Woman. On the other hand, if someone else were to step in as a different Wonder Woman that might work.

Also, given they showed Patty Jenkins the door, maybe they will want to get people on their side by at least using Gal Gadot to generate good will.

It's not that audiences were attached to one actor or another, it's that they were starring in objectively terrible films. If the Kilmer and Clooney films had been made by Nolan and written more seriously or what have you, then yes people would've forgotten about Keaton. Anyone replacing Gadot is only as good as the film itself. If the next non-Gadot film is at the level of, say, Captain America Winter Soldier or thereabouts, then yes people will move on right quick. Gadot was in one really good film (WW1) and then 3 middling/bad ones (WW2, BvS, JL). There's really not an RDJ / Jackman level attachment to her from a wider audience, so much so that WB would "don't think they can pull it off with another woman as the iconic Wonder Woman". In the last 20 years we've had 3 Batmen, why would WW be above recasting?

A caveat with the Kilmer/Clooney era is that audiences needed to be weaned off from thinking of comics as campy nonsense, which Blade/X-men did (though Spidey retained that tone to an extent). This made stuff like Casino Royale and Batman Begins possible, and thus the acceptance of Bale, etc.

[Vakanai]

I don't want this to be part of Gunn's DCU if true - I just want it to be it's own separate thing to give Gal a proper send off with a nice end to a trilogy and better than 84. She deserves to go out on a high note for the character.

If you have someone in mind that could do a better job as Wonder Woman, please post it. For me Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter are the best to have ever played Wonder Woman

Outside of unaired pilots for series never picked up, aren't Gal and Lynda the only ones to have ever played Wonder Woman? It's like saying Robert Downey Jr was the best to have played Iron Man - of course he was, no one else has done it yet!

[Bunch of Coconuts]

I don't want this to be part of Gunn's DCU if true - I just want it to be it's own separate thing to give Gal a proper send off with a nice end to a trilogy and better than 84. She deserves to go out on a high note for the character.



Outside of unaired pilots for series never picked up, aren't Gal and Lynda the only ones to have ever played Wonder Woman? It's like saying Robert Downey Jr was the best to have played Iron Man - of course he was, no one else has done it yet!

That's kind of where I was leading to.

Additionally, putting the onus of finding proper new talent on a fan who's disappointed with the current casting is...awkward. As much as I enjoy Gadot in the role, she's...limited in her acting range. It's quite weird to assume no one could play the role better, and even weirder when you realize that before Gadot had been cast, nobody who enjoys her in the role knew for sure that they would.

There's always plenty of undiscovered talent, to boot. Not sure if anyone who posts here has made finding acting talent their career, but there are people for that too.