The Wonder Woman sequel officially has a title. And plenty of big hair and sweatsuits.
The sequel to the best DCEU movie is leaning into its ’80s setting with a very fitting title: Wonder Woman 1984. But along with that title comes an even greater reveal — Chris Pine is back as Steve Trevor! And he’s wearing a sweatsuit and looking as confused as we are!
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot dropped two surprise Wonder Woman 1984 first looks on us this morning, sending Twitter into a tizzy over the shoulder pads and big hair of Hollywood’s current favorite era. But it wasn’t the high-waisted pants and the nod to National Lampoon’s Vacation in one of the TV screens that Diana is looking at that got us the most excited. It was the first image of Steve Trevor (Pine) clad in a very ’80s sweatsuit, looking very confused in a mall.
Wonder Woman 1984: Steve Trevor is Back!
One of the images is quite a doozy. It reveals that Diana Prince’s (Gal Gadot) doomed human love interest from the first film, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), is somehow back in the sequel, which is set decades later:
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Trevor, of course, sacrificed himself during World War I in 2017’s Wonder Woman.
There are plenty of theories as to why Pine was reported to return as Steve Trevor. He’s Diana’s hallucination, he returns in a vision, or the far-fetched theory that Diana ventures into the Underworld to rescue him from Hades (this is loosely based on Greek mythology, after all!). But he looks more like flesh-and-blood, and less like a dream (though Chris Pine is always dreamy). Could time travel be a factor? We’ll have to wait until 2019 to find out.
Previously director Patty Jenkins revealed the Wonder Woman sequel will be set in the United States. Warner Bros also announced Wednesday that filming will take place in Washington, D.C.; Alexandria, Virginia; and in the U.K., Spain, and the Canary Islands.
The director has also confirmed Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) will be playing Wonder Woman’s nemesis Cheetah in the sequel. Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) is also cast in a “pivotal role.”
Wonder Woman 1984 is set to open in theaters on November 1, 2019.
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