Gal Gadot Gives Followers First Look At New 'Wonder Woman' Movie

It's already been an exciting week for Wonder Woman fans, with a not-so-subtle hint from director Patty Jenkins that Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) will be re-joining the action in Wonder Woman 1984.

And now things are hotting up even further, as leading lady Gal Gadot revealed what appears to be a glimpse of her fresh costume for the upcoming 2019 sequel.

Granted, it looks pretty similar to the previous movie's costume, but given the somewhat confusing Hollywood habit of reimagining superheroes' get-ups with every consecutive film, we're quite glad that Wonder Woman 1984 appears to be bucking the trend.

Details about the sequel are still unclear, but there have been a few clues revealed by the cast and crew.

In an interview with Variety's Playback podcast, Jenkins said the second film will feature another 'great love story'.

"I did very much thematically want to get to love - because that's what she stands for - and the complexity of what we're facing," she said of the first film.

"These were big themes, like [Wonder Woman] stands for love and truth, which is particularly important right now."

She went on to add: "it's got great fun from the start and great big superhero presence from the start, and is funny and a great love story again, and a couple new unbelievable characters who I'm so excited about, who are very different than were in the last movie."

Confirming the new on Twitter earlier this year, Jenkins wrote: "So excited to confirm the most thrilling news. Yes! It's true. So incredibly lucky to welcome the sensationally talented Kristen Wiig to our Wonder Woman family. Can't wait to finally work with one of my favorites. And SO excited by what we have planned."

There are also rumours that Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal will play a key role in the Wonder Woman sequel.

The star is known for playing Oberyn Martell in the HBO series, but exactly what he'll be doing in Wonder Woman 1984 remains unclear.

Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to have quite a wait before we find out anything else, with the film not set to hit screens until the back end of 2019.

We won't know for sure until then whether the new movie will be able to surpass the initial Wonder Woman, which smashed a long list of box-office records, becoming one of the most successful superhero movies of all time.

All the deep cut jokes in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 2 that you might have missed

Considering the amount of pop-culture references in Deadpool 2, it’s likely that you missed many of them - especially a split-second celebrity cameo. You’ll probably have to watch the film again (and again, and again) to note (but not necessarily understand) every joke Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth makes in the superhero sequel. But we’ve collected a few here for your convenience, if only to reassure you that yes, that was indeed Brad Pitt that you saw for ⅓ of a second.

We saw several of them in the trailer, but the final film had more than a handful of jokes made at the expense of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, clearly the most popular (and therefore most easy to lampoon) superhero franchise out there. It’s an added bonus that both Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War share in Josh Brolin an actor who plays major roles in both films.

Deadpool doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste. He calls Cable, Brolin’s time travelling cyborg, ‘a grumpy old  with a Winter Soldier arm’ at one point in the film. But if that was too subtle for you, he goes right ahead and calls him ‘Thanos’ in one scene, a rather blunt reference to his Infinity War character.

All the deep cut jokes in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 2 that you might have missed

His Indian cabbie, Dopinder, meanwhile gets the title ‘Brown Panther’ - a dig at Marvel’s Black Panther - and to pacify Juggernaut in the film’s finale, Deadpool tries using Black Widow’s lullaby for Hulk. ‘Sun’s getting real low, big guy,” he says. And speaking of Black Widow, did you catch his nickname for Zazie Beetz’s Domino? He calls her ‘black Black Widow’.

Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
Even in death, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine hasn’t been spared Deadpool’s cracks. The film basically opens with Deadpool mourning Wolverine’s death in Logan, as a figurine of the clawed mutant in his death pose twirls around before him.

And Reynolds bookends the film with yet another dig at Wolverine - specifically the much derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Deadpool, now armed with Cable’s time travelling device, goes back into the past and murders the older version of his character while Wolverine looks on. “Just cleaning up the timeline,” he says.

But between these two moments, there’s one that more difficult to spot. When Deadpool is laying out his plan for an ambush, in which he will be joined by the X-Force, his drawn-in-crayon map notes a very specific person. Russell, the young mutant everyone seems to be after, has been given a codename: Prisoner 24601. The more literary of readers would recall that that’s the number assigned to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. And who played Valjean on the big screen most recently? Yup, Hugh Jackman.