Wonder Woman 1984
The first Wonder Woman was such a success that it didn’t take long for Warner Bros. to greenlight Wonder Woman 1984. Originally set to drop in December 2019, a week before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Gal Gadot’s superhero movie was pushed up a month, and then knocked back to June 2020.
And then the pandemic happened. A good amount of Warner Bros. films jumped to 2021, but the studio played chicken with 1984’s release throughout 2020: first it was going to release in August, then October. After the poor box office for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, WB settled on Christmas Day for Wonder Woman’s sophomore outing, with simultaneous release in theaters and on HBO Max. More than its mixed reception, what would come to define 1984 was its dual release strategy, one WB would adapt for their 2021 slate of films, to varying degrees of success.
