Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins says that the Warner Bros. studio made it change the original ending of the film “at the last moment”, pushing a larger-scale superhero fight between the eponymous warrior Amazon (Gal Gadot) and Ares (David Thewlis). In the World War I set Wonder Woman, Diana Prince mistakenly believes that German Army General Erich Ludendorff (Danny Huston) is secretly the God of War. When the Wonderful Woman confronts the true Ares, rejecting her offer to join forces and escape the war-torn world of man, Themysciran and the Old God clash in an epic battle far greater than the end that Jenkins and imagine it:
“The original ending of the first film was also smaller, but the studio made me change it at the last minute. So that was always a little bit of nonsense which is the only thing people talk about, because I was okay, “Jenkins said IGN while promoting continuation The Wonderful Woman 1984. “And I told the studio we didn’t have time to do it, but it was what it was. I came to love it, but that wasn’t the original ending of the film.”
WW84 pits Diana against Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) and Cheetah (Kristen Wiig), which makes for a more intimate and smaller-scale confrontation that is no less brilliant for a superhero ending.
“This time, I liked that it has both at the end. I had visual effects [fight], a great battle I just dug in and had such an explosion, that I felt so happy with, “Jenkins said.” But in the end, the end of the film is much shorter and it was really, really fun. Without spoilers, all sorts of things happen, but it was a lot of fun to model it differently. “
Despite the often criticized ending, Jenkins thinks it would have been a “mistake” for him Wonder Woman not to pit the superheroine against the God of War in any way.
“In my opinion, it would have been a mistake to make a premiere Wonder Woman film without its absolute rival Ares, who is the most classic villain in the tradition and is the counterpart of her point of view. She’s a god and he’s a god, and he knows something she doesn’t know and she made a choice based on that, “says Jenkins in Wonder Woman comment. “He saw the weakness in his father’s creation and tries to show the world how bad humanity is and, therefore, annihilates them and gets rid of them. She, in the course of her journey, learns the same thing and ends up saying, “Oh, my Lord, all are those things, ‘but she makes the opposite choice.”
Jenkins added: “If her story is about a change of perspective, his story is a participant with that story, instead of being a bad guy, which is the point of the film.”
The Wonderful Woman 1984 movie releases and on HBO Max on December 25th.