Wonder Woman - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Wonder Woman or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Wonder Woman

[janice]

The first DC film since Green Lantern (2011) that does not feature Batman or Superman. However, Batman is subtly referenced in the form of the Wayne Enterprises delivery truck.

[carla]

Nicolas Winding Refn was interested in directing the film and insisted on Christina Hendricks for Wonder Woman.

[janice]

Director Patty Jenkins was originally in talks with Warner Bros. to direct this film back in 2005, but due to her unexpected pregnancy, she had to step down. Jenkins claimed that Wonder Woman (2017) is the film she has been wanting to do her whole life and that she was fortunate to come back to it, even though she had only directed one low budget drama film in her career 14 years before and had no experience handling big budget action movie. Because of that many fans have wondered why she was hired rather than a more qualified director.

[carla]

Dr Poison (AKA Dr Isabel Maru) is a villain from the classic Wonder Woman Comics Rogue Gallery. In her first strip this character was appearing in disguise as a man, and only revealed herself to be a female in the last frame of the comic.

[lonnie]

In the comics, the character of Mercy Graves, portrayed by Tao Okamoto in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) was introduced as an Amazon.

[kim]

This is the first film in Gal Gadot's acting career in which she received top billing.

[richard]

In this film, Wonder Woman's tiara is an heirloom from Antiope. In both the comics and television series, it can be used as a weapon.

[jesus]

Ares commands Wonder Woman to kill Dr Poison, but she refuses and he turns on her in disappointment. This event had occurred in the "New 52" DC comics, but with the Minotaur.

[kenneth]

Languages spoken are English, and in few scenes German, Dutch (Flemish, spoken in Flanders, Belgium), French, (modern) Greek, Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin) and Spanish. Scenes in the town of Veld where Flemish & French are both spoken, signs are also bilingual.

[sophie]

Gal Gadot trained for nine months to gain seventeen pounds of pure muscle, though it didn't show in the final film and many fans felt she looked too thin to play the character.

[bryan]

On the Blu-Ray version, there are a bunch of bonus features, including one 20 minutes segment where they show the various women training for months for the Amazon battle scenes at the beginning of the film - one is a professional boxer with several titles under her belt, another is an Olympic athlete, there are several pro martial artists, and another is Doutzen Kroes, a Dutch supermodel who has been featured in Victoria's Secret - you can see her in the hall when Diana is insisting that somebody should accompany Trevor back to the war.

[carl]

The scam that Sameer is running in the pub bears some resemblance to the notorious "Nigerian Prince" that was propagated via the Internet. He states that he is from an African country and describes his wealth in extravagant terms, thereby setting up the false offer of a share of his wealth in exchange for a small fee to help him extract it from his country. This form of scam, known as the Advance-fee scam, has existed in various forms since the 18th century.

[stephanie]

The first super heroine film to generate more than $100 million domestically.

[miriam]

Some locations give hints as to Diana's divine heritage: At the tower containing the Godkiller, a bull appears on the cliff behind Diana. In Greek mythology, Zeus often takes the form of a bull.At the Belgian village of Veld, a major fight for Diana takes place at a church.Diana is seen working at the Louvre Museum at Paris. According to Dan Brown's conspiracy novel "The Da Vinci Code", the Louvre is the resting place of at least one member of Jesus of Nazareth's human family.

[albert]

This is the first feature in which Wonder Woman does not wear earrings. She wore red circle earrings throughout the 1970s live action television series and in Hanna-Barbera's long-running animated series Super Friends (1973), but wore white star earrings in Cartoon Network's television series Justice League (2001). In the early comic books, the earrings were said to grant the ability to breathe in any environment, including outer space, but the idea was dropped as Wonder Woman's abilities were increased.

[carla]

It is the first live action solo theatrical film of the titular Amazonian character. Warner Brothers began developing this film in 1996, but no actress officially stepped into the role until 2013.

[russell]

After its domestic opening weekend, this film immediately became the highest grossing film about World War I (The Great War), and the first to gross over $100 million.

[gerald]

Gal Gadot (Diana) and Emily Carey (young Diana) share the same birthday, April 30.

[kenneth]

At the end of the film, Diana is seen writing an email to Bruce Wayne, thanking him for the photo. Bruce Wayne is Batman's real identity.