American director Patty Jenkins has stepped forth to speak about
how her record-shattering film Wonder
Woman almost didn’t exit. The 2017-released flick was praised far and
wide after it hit the theatres. However; all the mess that happened
behind-the-scenes is something only Jenkins is familiar with. The filmmaker
during her recent appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast;
revealed all the battles she had to fight with Warner Bros. executives over ‘mistrust’
issues and how she had to go through multiple scripts before she got a green
light for her ideas. She claimed that the execs were more interested in the
optics that a woman director was helming a female superhero film than they were
in the said director’s actual ideas. ‘Everybody in the industry wanted to hire
me. But I felt like they wanted to hire me like a beard; they wanted me to walk
around on set being a woman director - but it was their story and their vision;’
she said. ‘There was such mistrust of a different way of doing things and a
different point of view;’ she continued. ‘Even when I first joined “Wonder
Woman” it was like; “Uhh; yeah; OK, but let’s do it this other way.’ But I was
like, ‘Women don’t want to see that. Her being harsh and tough and cutting
people’s heads off I’m a ‘Wonder Woman’ fan, that’s not what we’re looking
for.’ Still; I could feel that shaky nervousness {on their part} of my point of
view;’ she added. ‘They were all freaked out by all the female superhero films
that had failed; the smaller ones that had failed;’ she said adding: ‘and also
Christopher Nolan was making the “Dark Knight” thing; so I think they were just
trying to figure out what they were doing with DC at that time.’
‘They came back to
me a year later and said; “Do you want to do it your way?” And boom; I just
went and made the movie;’ she added.
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