Ever since Steve Trevor’s Wonder Woman 1984 return was made clear by Chris Pine wearing a very Dylan McKay-esq jumpsuit, we have been curious just what divine intervention would be at work. Now, Comicbook is sharing a report from We Got This Covered about just how Patty Jenkins may bring back our blue-eyed hero.
According to the report, Pedro Pascal is playing Maxwell Lord, trying to find some artifact that will make him “as powerful as a god.” Lord is allegedly working hand-in-hand with Barbara Ann Minerva, and then one of the artifacts turns her into Cheetah. Angry about now being a Cat Person, Cheetah then turns on Lord, and then supposedly, Lord revives Trevor to persuade Wonder Woman to help Lord in his fight against Cheetah.
How Maxwell Lord can resurrect a man who’s been dead for that long and not already be a demi-god is beyond me, but people have been saying that Pascal is playing yet another god. Considering that Zeus spread his divine seed all over the place, there should be other semi-divine kids roaming the Earth in some camp-half-blood-like situation.
If Pascal is Maxwell Lord, then all I can think of is when Wonder Woman snapped his neck in Countdown to Infinite Crisis and how interesting it would be to have that scene, even though I feel like it would lose its impact in a period drama rather than a huge event storyline.
As much as I enjoy watching Chris Pine and the chemistry between him and Gal Gadot, I also feel like bringing him back in any way will always feel off, especially because of the end of the first Wonder Woman, which takes place in the modern day and implies that he has been out of her life for a long time, not just thirty-plus years. Also, in Justice League, one of her few dynamics was that she was still not over Steve, and that was why Bruce was negging her into romance.
Pine has said he was well aware he’d be back for a sequel during the filming of the first film. “Patty had told me her idea somewhere in the middle of the first one and … when Patty gets an idea it’s a pretty powerful thing because you can see the kernel land in the dirt and then all of a sudden it just starts growing and becoming a tree you know, and she could make you do anything.”
Either way, considering the bond Jenkins and Pine have cinematically, I’m not surprised she wants to bring him back, but I just feel it should fit some way, canonically, into the messy house that the DCEU has built, especially since Aquaman has helped it join the billion-dollar box office club.
As long as we get some great Wonder Woman/Cheetah fight scenes, that’s all I really want from this production: Amazon on cat violence.
(via Comicbook, image: DC/Warner Bros.)
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