Patty Jenkins Reveals She Is Again Working on a “Forgotten” Star Wars Project

Patty Jenkins rose to worldwide fame when she signed up with DCEU to do a ‘Wonder Woman’ movie. The movie was a massive hit and gave Jenkins the biggest domestic opening for a female director. Soon after Jenkins revealed that she was directing ‘Wonder Woman 2’ but that she almost walked away from the project due to a salary dispute with WB.

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ was initially set for a June 5, 2020 release by WB in the U.S. but got pushed to December 25, 2020, due to COVID-19. Originally planned for November 1, 2019, the sequel faced mixed reviews and didn’t do well at the box office. This is kind of where the beginning of the end began. But in the meantime, Jenkins also made a deal with Disney to direct the ‘Rogue Squadron’ movie, a project announced in 2020 that was shelved soon after, and nothing was heard about it for years. Jenkins stated that she walked away from the movie due to the potential of developing ‘Wonder Woman 3.’ Even after Gunn and Safran rebooted the DCEU into DCU some semblance of hope remained both for Jenkins and Gadot that they will return to the Wonder Woman project, until it was ultimately confirmed that this isn’t happening.

Now Jenkins stated in her latest appearance on the TCM/Max podcast, ‘Talking Pictures’ that she is back working on the movie following the resolution of the SAG-AFTRA strike. She apparently signed a new deal during the strike:

So, when I left ‘Star Wars’ to do ‘Wonder Woman 3 ,’ I thought maybe I’ll come back to ‘Star Wars’ after ‘Wonder Woman 3 ‘. So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing ‘Wonder Woman.’ When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of ‘Star Wars’ and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?

Jenkins initially agreed to direct the movie because she wanted to make an ultimate fighter pilot movie, an homage to her late father Capt. William T. Jenkins, a U.S. Air Force pilot who served during the Vietnam War and earned a Silver Star for it. Jenkins is apparently fascinated with aerial action and would like to translate that to the screen.

And so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows? It’s hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what’s the first movie they’re gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I’m back on doing ‘Rogue Squadron’ and we’ll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we’re both super happy with it.

Jenkins apparently owes the studio a script and after that, anything can happen. The studio didn’t comment officially on the project, as the last update was given 15 months ago.

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