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onder Woman 1984 (promoted as WW84) is a 2020 American superhero movie based totally on
the DC Comics personality Wonder Woman. It is the sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman and the ninth installment in the DC Extended Universe 1
 
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(DCEU). The movie is directed by using Patty Jenkins from a script she wrote with Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham, based totally on a story through Johns and Jenkins. Gal Gadot stars as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, alongside Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen. Set in 1984 throughout the Cold War, the movie follows Diana and her previous love Steve Trevor as they face off towards Max Lord and Cheetah. Discussion of a sequel commenced quickly after the launch of the first movie in June 2017 and the selection to proceed was once demonstrated the following month. Principal
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started on June 13, 2018, with filming taking region at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in England, as properly as the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the United States, London and Duxford in England, Tenerife and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, and AlmerĂa in Andalusia, Spain. Production 2
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wrapped on December 22, 2018, after a sixmonth shoot, with extra filming in July 2019.
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FanDome digital platform. It used to be theatrically launched in the United States through Warner Bros. Pictures on December 25, 2020, and additionally made on hand to be streamed digitally on HBO Max for a month earlier than it will go to top class video on demand. In worldwide markets that do now not have HBO Max, the movie was once theatrically launched commencing on December 16, 2020. It used to be praised for its "escapist qualities" and Jenkins' take on the 1980s, however many critics observed it "overindulgent or clichĂŠ". A sequel is in development, with
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Jenkins and Gadot returning. In her youth, Diana Prince participated in a multi-stage athletic opposition on Themyscira towards older A m a z o n s overseen by way of Queen Hippolyta. After falling from her horse, Diana takes a shortcut to capture up to it and resumes the competition. Just earlier than she wins, her aunt Antiope eliminates her from the competition, lecturing that "no proper hero is born from lies".
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n 1984, sixty six years after the first film, Diana works as a senior anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.C., specializing in historic Mediterranean civilizations; Diana additionally secretly fights crime as Wonder Woman. At work, she meets new worker Barbara Ann Minerva, an insecure lady who comes to idolize and envy Diana. After Wonder Woman foils an tried robbery, the FBI asks Barbara to pick out a cache of stolen antiquities from the robbery. Both Barbara and
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Diana observe that one object — later published to be the "Dreamstone" — has a Latin inscription.
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wishing that her deceased lover Steve Trevor was once alive; his soul then returns and inhabits any other man's body. Later, after Diana saves her from an assault, Barbara desires upon the stone to turn out to be like Diana, inadvertently reaching Diana's superpowers and godhood. Businessman Maxwell "Max Lord" Lorenzano visits the Smithsonian beneath the guise of a rich donor, secretly coveting the Dreamstone in hopes of saving his failing oil company. During a gala at the Smithsonian, Max seduces the unwitting Barbara, who is taken by means of his 5
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attraction to reap get right of entry to to her workplace and steal the Dreamstone. He later needs to come to be the embodiment of the stone and features its strength to furnish needs whilst additionally having the capacity to take some thing he wishes from others.
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teve and Diana steal a aircraft and
observe Max Lord to Cairo. Max turns into a effective and influential parent whilst leaving chaos and destruction in
his wake as his powers set off international instability and conflict. Barbara, Diana, and Steve later find out that the Dreamstone used to be created by means of Dolos, the god of lies, treachery, deception, and mischief. The stone offers a person their desire however exacts a toll. The solely way to reverse the change is via renouncing the want or destroying the stone
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itself. Steve realizes his existence comes at the value of Diana's power, whilst Barbara's newfound lifestyles has drained her humanity; each girls are unwilling to resign their wishes.
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ax learns from the U.S. President that the nation's satellite tv for pc device can broadcast alerts
globally. Max makes use of it to provide needs to the complete world whilst regaining his nowdeteriorating health. Diana and Steve confront him, however Barbara joins forces with Max to stop Diana from impeding him. Steve convinces a tearful Diana to resign her want and let him go, restoring her electricity whilst gaining the capacity to fly. She returns domestic and dons the armor of the legendary Amazon warrior Asteria. She then battles Barbara, who has in addition mutated into a cheetah-like
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creature after wishing to end up an apex predator.
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fter defeating Barbara, Diana confronts Max at the TV station and makes use of her Lasso of Truth to
talk with the world via him, convincing all of us to resign their wishes. She additionally suggests Max visions: first of his very own sad childhood, then of his younger son, Alistair, wandering the streets terrified and crying for his father, amid the chaos Max created. A tearful Max renounces his desire and rushes to discover Alistair. Reunited, Max repentantly guarantees to be a higher father.
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ometime later, Diana meets the man whose physique Steve possessed, whilst she continues to watch over the world.
Meanwhile, as a girl saves a toddler carriage from a collapsing pole, it is published that
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Asteria is secretly dwelling amongst humans, a lot like Diana.
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