Wonder Woman image courtesy DC Comics.

Wonder Woman will swing her golden lasso on the big screen again.

James Gunn confirmed that Wonder Woman 3 will happen (eventually) – though it won’t be Patty Jenkins’ vision, and a new actor will don the corset and boots.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, DC studios co-head Gunn admitted that the third movie is in the works.

“We’re working on Wonder WomanWonder Woman‘s being written right now,” Gunn said in the interview. Gunn did not say who is writing the new Wonder Woman, and there have been no casting announcements for the role of Diana of Themyscira.

Shortly after the release of Wonder Woman 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Godot, plans for a third movie were announced This was in spite of the fact that WW84 was released during the height of the Covid shutdown and did not do big business at the box office. But then Warner and Discovery merged and Jenkins’ treatment of the third movie was just one of the many projects shelved in the process.

Last month, David Zaslav, head of Warner Bros. Discovery, said that the four core characters of the DC Universe are Superman, Batman, Supergirl and Wonder Woman. The Superman movie opens next month and a Supergirl film will be released in 2026.

“I think that’s accurate, actually,” Gunn told EW. “I think that he got that from something I said. I wouldn’t say only those four characters, but I would say that those four characters are incredibly important to us. Right now, I feel great about where two of those characters are, and then we’re dealing with the other two.”

Gunn made a point of noting that the big screen Wonder Woman was “a separate thing” from the one coming to streaming. HBO Max will launch a series based on the character called Paradise Lost. Gunn called that project “slow moving, but it’s moving.”

Set on Wonder Woman’s home planet Themyscira, Gunn billed Paradise Lost as “Game of Thrones with Westeros but with all the inhabitants of Paradise Island.”

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