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So… about Wonder Woman 1984…

Yesterday director Patty Jenkins took to twitter to offer a still from the now filming Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to her very popular Wonder Woman film, starring Gal Gadot, and set in (duh) the year 1984.

The image caused much curiosity:

Yep, that’s Chris Pine in an 80’s getup (though check out the people behind him… if nothing else, the movie sure does seem to want to get the aesthetic of 1984) … thing is, and SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T SEEN IT, Chris Pine’s character in the original Wonder Woman appeared to, well, not make it out alive.

Which begs the question: How the heck is he in this film?

If you have even a casual knowledge of the Wonder Woman TV show featuring Lynda Carter, you should know that the series had the character appear in both World War 2 and, in subsequent seasons, the “present” of the 1970’s.  What was curious about that series is that actor Lyle Waggoner played two roles in the series.  In the first, taking place during World War 2, he was Major Steve Trevor…

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In the “new” adventures of Wonder Woman, set in the then present, he played… Coloner Steve Trevor Jr.!

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So it would seem the Wonder Woman movies are perhaps doing something similar, having Chris Pine appear in both eras.  The question is, will this be a distant relative of Chris Pine’s original Steve Trevor from the first WW movie?

You know what?

I don’t really care too much about that.

What intrigues me much more is the fact that this movie is set in 1984.  Clearly there must be some reason for setting it in that year versus, say, in the “present”.

Thinking back to 1984, I recall world events of that time and wonder if those will play a role in the movie.  The Soviet Empire was on its way down but the Cold War was still in effect (the Berlin Wall would come down in 1989).  There was a feeling, at times, that nuclear conflict might happen.

Conversely, and within the U.S., there was the issue of cocaine and drugs in the U.S.  The TV show Miami Vice premiered in 1984 and for better or worse it became something of an aesthetic of that era…

So I’m wondering… could this movie take a little more from something like Miami Vice rather than world events at the time?  Or will it be a little of column “A” and column “B”?

Stay tuned… same Wonder channel, same Wonder time!