Wonder Woman has all but shut down in theaters, and what a run it had. Gal Gadot’s smashing debut racked up $390 million in the United States, officially taking the title of the summer’s biggest hit. It’s the highest grossing action film directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, and the third-highest grossing Warner Bros. movie behind The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
Now, at the San Diego Comic Con, Wonder Woman 2 has been formally introduced, set to be released on December 13, 2019. With the stats rolling in, critics are certainly curious if there will be as big of a political emphasis on the sequel like there was in the first (at least from the hype).
There were those on the left who bemoaned the wasted opportunity for a pink armpit haired, horn-rim wearing Wonder Woman to kick the patriarchy in the you-know-what; there were those on the right, who praised Gal Gadot’s Israeli heritage and service in the Israeli army, causing Lebanon to ban the movie altogether.
Then there are those like Stephen Miller of the soon-to-close Heat Street, who bought a ticket to a women’s-only screening at the Alamo Drafthouse and observed the woke female audience gawking and drooling the second Aquaman came on screen. A similar reaction occurred when Chris Pine got out of a bath. Miller quickly learned that “Twitter outrage is not real life” and reported that the women did not care about his presence in the female-only showing (surprise!).
By 2019, we’ll be three years into an administration that the pink-hatted crowd never saw coming. Try as they may to drag President Trump on Twitter, it is unlikely they’ll drag him out of the White House. Even less likely is a special election to escort President Hillary into the White House. By 2019 it could very well be that pundits won’t put so much weight onto an event as innocent as a film series, and that the comic book nerds will enjoy the sequel just as much as they enjoyed the first.
