GOLDEN GIRL

GET YOUR LEG WARMERS AND PARACHUTE PANTS AT THE READY, THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED WONDER WOMAN SEQUEL IS TAKING US BACK TO THE ‘80S…

- LAURA GRIFFITHS

This summer, Wonder Woman will be following in the retro footsteps of recent STARBURST favourites Stranger Things and American Horror Story by adopting a kaleidoscopic colour palette, killer soundtrack (props to the fantastic sound editing on New Order’s Blue Monday in the trailer) and heading back to our favourite decade.

Set for release in August, (pushed back from a June release due to the lockdown restrictions), the film picks up nearly 70 years after Wonder Woman’s solo debut. Told as a flashback, the first film saw Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) on a mission to defeat the god of war and acclimatise to life away from the paradise island of Themyscira during the events of World War I alongside US pilot and love interest Captain Steve Trevor (Chris Pine). With director Patty Jenkins at the helm once more, Wonder Woman 1984’s timing, as the title reveals, is set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which forces Diana into conflict with the Soviet Union and a new foe by the name of Cheetah, played by Kristen Wiig. More on her later.

2017’s Wonder Woman was Gadot’s first full outing as the popular DC Comics hero. The film was the fourth instalment in the DC Extended Universe, which, let’s be honest, wasn’t on the best of rolls at the time after the chilly critical response received by Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where the character was introduced. The subsequent