After setting the original Wonder Woman during the sober period of World War I, Patty Jenkins made a left turn for the sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, putting the action in the gaudy, greed-is-good era of the 1980s.Speaking during Warner Bros’ panel for the film during Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event, the director explains that the playful aspect of the ’80s setting was important to offset the film’s more serious message about the pursuit of absolute power in our modern world.“We wanted to talk about something quite a bit more serious than we did with the first film, which is [about] the crisis facing our world,” ” says Jenkins, who was joined on the panel by star Gal Gadot, “How do you use a superhero to inspire and reach the
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