‘Wonder Woman’ director Patty Jenkins opens up about leaving ‘Thor 2’

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins has lastly opened up about her resolution to stop directing “Thor 2” regardless that she wished to do a superhero film.

Jenkins was changed on “Thor 2”, a essential dud, by Alan Taylor. The film launched as “Thor: The Dark World” in 2013.

The 49-year-old director, whose “Wonder Woman 1984” has scored the most important opening weekend for any movie since theatres opened, spoke to Marc Maron on his podcast WTF about why she determined to depart the Marvel Studios’ venture.

“Word got out that I wanted to do a superhero film and to Marvel’s credit ‘on a movie that didn’t require a woman at all’ they hired me. So, I’ve always been super grateful to them even though it didn’t work out. They wanted to do a story that I thought was not going to succeed, and I knew it couldn’t be me.”

“It couldn’t be me had that happen. If they hired any guy to do it, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but I knew in my heart that I could not make a good movie out of the story they wanted to do,” Jenkins stated.

Directing the film would have made Jenkins the primary feminine filmmaker to helm a big-budget superhero film however she realised that if the movie didn’t do properly, it will smash her prospects of directing different tentpole movies, one thing that most likely wouldn’t occur if she had been a person.

She wished to direct “Wonder Woman” instantly after the success of “Monster” in 2003.

“I wanted in. I wanted to do a big superhero film after ‘Monster.’ And I started saying that right away after ‘Monster.’ People were confused I got every ‘woman’ film, any story about women.”

“And I was like, ‘I want to make movies about women but I don’t want to make movies about being a woman, that’s so boring. I want to make movies about women doing all kinds of things.’ After her initial meeting with Warner Bros, Jenkins met with the makers every two years thereafter but the studio “did not know what to do with Wonder Woman” and “had been freaked out by earlier feminine superhero movies that failed,” she stated.

That’s when she obtained the chance with Marvel Studios.

With “Wonder Woman” in 2017 scripting historical past on the field workplace and its sequel “Wonder Woman 1984” doing properly, each critically and commercially, Jenkins now not must look again.

She is all set to direct “Star Wars: Rogue Squadron” in 2023 for Lucasfilm and can be returning for “Wonder Woman 3”.