'Wonder Woman' Director Slams 'Entirely False' Report Calling Film 'a Mess'
"Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins is angrily deflecting bullets after someone accused her film of being "another mess" for Warner Bros./DC.
Wonder Woman is finally getting her own solo film, due in theaters next June, and it finished filming this past spring with Gal Gadot in the lead role. The movie recently ended up dragged into a (supposedly) former Warner Bros.'s employee's open letter to Warner Bros Chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara. The letter, posted to Panjiba, started with the alleged former employee saying he/she felt angry, let down, and frustrated by "Suicide Squad," and blamed Tsujihara for "completely whiffing at properties" that fans are desperate to love and enjoy.
Most of the letter is not about "Wonder Woman," but then there's this part, which is almost an aside:
"What are you even doing? I wish to God you were forced to live out of a car until you made a #1 movie of the year. Maybe Wonder Woman wouldn't be such a mess. Don't try to hide behind the great trailer. People inside are already confirming it's another mess. It is almost impressive how you keep rewarding the same producers and executives for making the same mistakes, over and over."
Well, pump the brakes on that because it's news to Patty Jenkins that her film is a mess:
Woah, just saw this press about WW having problems. Are they serious? This is some made up bs right here. Made up! Produce a source, anyone.
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016
You can't because it's entirely false. Don't believe the hype people. Someone's trying to spread some serious misinfo.
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016
Isn't until you are intimately involved in these things that you realize how totally false these rumors can. Let me reassure you...
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016
Zero about the movie we are making has been called a mess by anyone in the know. Fact.
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016
Real lasso of truth, time, will reveal that letter to be false soon enough. But lame something so transparent in its agenda gets traction.
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) August 12, 2016
This world could use a lot more Lasso of Truth time.
The "Wonder Woman" trailer wowed Comic-Con, so all we can do is hope that the final film lives up to that promise when it's released June 2, 2017.
[h/t: Deadline]
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