Patty Jenkins has broken her silence over the news that she parted ways with Warner Bros. on a sequel to 2020’s “Wonder Woman 1984.”
“I never walked away,” Jenkins shared in a post on Twitter.
Jenkins’ statement comes almost a week after news first broke that Warner Bros. leadership had passed on her treatment for a third “Wonder Woman” movie, which set off a torrent of speculation about what the news might indicate about the future of DC. It also sparked headlines suggesting that Jenkins had rebuffed efforts to reshape the film to fit into the nascent plans for DC Studios by newly appointed chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran.
In her statement, Jenkins said that story is “simply not true”
Roughly an hour after Jenkins poster her statement, Gunn supported her on Twitter, replying, “I can attest that all of Peter and my interactions with you were only pleasant and professional.”
In her statement, Jenkins also said that while she remains in active development on the “Star Wars” film “Rogue Squadron,” she had initially departed the project after realizing that working on the film would delay a third “Wonder Woman” movie.
Lucasfilm and Jenkins announced “Rogue Squadron” in December 2020; at the time, it was meant to be Lucasfilm’s first “Star Wars” feature film following 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” and had been set to premiere in theaters in 2023. But Disney officially pulled the film from its schedule in September.
Jenkins’ hopeful tone on “Rogue Squadron,” however, is in contrast to the rest of her statement, which reads as a farewell to the “Wonder Woman” franchise.
Along with the movies’ fans and her filmmaking crew, Jenkins paid tribute to actor Lynda Carter, who played the superhero on TV in the late 1970s and had a cameo in “Wonder Woman 1984,” and to her star, Gal Gadot: “Where do I even begin? Gal is the greatest gift I have received in this whole journey. A cherished friend, inspiration, and sister.”
