“I miss you so much!” Gal Gadot said to her director, Patty Jenkins, and Wonder Woman 1984 co-stars Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, and Pedro Pascal from a vaguely Phantom Zone-looking screen during the Warner Bros.-hosted virtual pep rally called DC Fandome.
With this year’s San Diego Comic-Con foiled by the coronavirus pandemic, the marketing superheroes at WB and DC Entertainment did not retreat to their Fortress of Solitude. Instead, they initiated the Fandome, which, much like the Bottle City of Kandor it evokes, is a comic book convention in miniature.
It began with Wonder Woman 1984.
The cast and crew of the upcoming superhero flick took video questions from fans around the world, including tennis great Venus Williams and the Wonder Woman closest to those of us of a certain age, Lynda Carter. We’ll get into some of the yuks in a minute, but first, let’s head straight for dessert, the second trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, which does indeed dare to include footage of an anthropomorphized cheetah in a post-Cats film.
And to think we’d all gone this long without seeing Chris Pine wear parachute pants.
The panel, which was under 30 minutes, went as smoothly as could be expected given its online-only nature . Highlights included Kristen Wiig reminiscing about the time when her wig got caught in one of Gal Gadot’s bracelets during a fight scene, and Pine saying his primary objective on set each day was trying to make Gal Gadot giggle.
When Venus Williams popped up, she asked who would win in a tennis match, Wonder Woman or Wiig’s villain The Cheetah. Wiig seemed to think she would come away with the victory, to which Gadot said, rather diplomatically, “that’s your perspective, but I disagree.”
Williams has a Wonder Woman-themed line of attire, if you were wondering how she ended up in this.
Lynda Carter, who played the lasso-hurling Themysciran princess on television from 1975 to 1979, then appeared, and Kristin Wiig said exactly what you think she’d say — “I wore Wonder Woman underoos as a kid!” (Gadot merely said that she called Carter “Mama Bear”.)
For seven hours on Saturday, August 22 (and then repeated on a loop through midday Sunday), the DC Fandome’s Hall of Heroes is host for panels about the next big wave in DC movies, including Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League, Aquaman, The Batman, and James Gunn’s Suicide Squad sequel.
On Saturday, September 12 fans can once again go under the dome to hop between different streaming panels about various DC television shows, comics series, cosplaying tips and material best suited for children. There is no charge to watch any of this.
Here is a second look at the initial Wonder Woman 1984 trailer, which was released back in December. Disregard the part about the June 5, 2020 release date.
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