Patty Jenkins exposes ‘war’ with Warner Bros. over ‘Wonder Woman’

nypost.com:

Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast to promote the film’s new hit sequel “WW84,” Jenkins described how studio bigwigs were less interested in her ideas than in the optics of having a woman direct a female-centric superhero flick. “Everybody in the industry wanted to hire me,” said the 49-year-old director, who also helmed the critically acclaimed “Monster,” which won Charlize Theron the Oscar for Best Actress in 2004. “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.”They didn’t even want to read her script, according to Jenkins. “There was such mistrust of a different way of doing things and a different point of view” she told Maron, 57.The.