Lynda Carter Confirms She Was Set to Appear in WONDER WOMAN 3 and Says It Would Have Been "Interesting, Wonderful and About Something Important"
Gal Gadot incredibly played the role of Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman in the DC universe, first appearing in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and telling her full story in Wonder Woman the following year. We have since seen her in the role in Justice League, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and The Flash, as well as her own sequel, and fans have hoped to see her continue her reign as the Princess of the Amazons. But after the dismal response to her DC sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, and DC announcing last year that the third film was no longer moving forward, it seems like her time as Wonder Woman may have come to an end.
This is a bummer, not only to the fans who’ve enjoyed her portrayal, but also to actress Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on the TV series from 1975 to 1979. Carter delighted comic book fans when she popped up at the end of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 as Asteria, a legendary Amazonian warrior previously thought to be dead. The tease led many to believe a third Wonder Woman movie would unite Carter and Gadot on the big screen.
In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Carter verified that she would’ve been back as Asteria had Jenkins and Gadot’s Wonder Woman 3 taken flight at Warner Bros. She described Jenkins’ plans for the sequel as “really interesting, wonderful and about something important. Not just your typical thing.”
Carter said about the studio:
“I don’t think they want to do it unless there’s enough pressure from fans. I just don’t think they have the mind to do it. And I don’t understand that, because it seems to me that Wonder Woman is different from other characters. She’s not just a superhero. Her whole thing is about peaceful solutions. She’s not aggressive to be aggressive. It’s a different story. It’s about inner strength, outer strength. I don’t know why they tabled it, because it’s a great franchise.”
Carter added:
“I have to give a lot of credit to Patty and Gal because the interest in my show had peaked when they came on the scene. [Their vision] was intentional — and how I played the character was intentional. To be good, kind, strong and do everything for the right reasons. Even when she was angry, she was angry at the right people.”
The actress shared that she even has an ongoing group chat with Jenkins and Gadot. “We all embraced each other and we’re very good friends,” she added. “We took the steam right out. ‘No, we love each other.’ ‘Oh, darn.’ Sharing that legacy with someone is wonderful.”
Jenkins, who directed the first two films, said on the Talking Pictures podcast last month that her experience with Wonder Woman is over “for the time being, easily forever.”
“They aren’t interested in doing any ‘Wonder Woman’ for the time being,” Jenkins said. “It’s not an easy task, with what’s going on with DC. James Gunn and Peter Safran have to follow their own heart into their own plans. I don’t know what they are planning on doing or why, so I have sympathy for what a big job it is and they have to follow their heart and do what they’ve got planned.”
Gunn and Safran’s new DC universe will launch with superheroes such as Batman and Supergirl, but Wonder Woman is not yet announced for the new franchise.