Wonder Woman 3 with Gal Gadot not in development for DC Universe

Gal Gadot raised eyebrows recently when she claimed she might still appear in a third Wonder Woman film under the auspices of new DC Studios bosses — and architects of the rebooted DC Universe in film and TV — James Gunn and Peter Safran.

“I love portraying Wonder Woman,” Gadot told Comicbook.com in an interview promoting her Netflix thriller Heart of Stone. “It’s so close to and dear to my heart. From what I heard from James and from Peter is that we’re gonna develop a Wonder Woman 3 together.”

Gadot was more specific in a recent interview with Flaunt Magazine. “I was invited to a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran,” Gadot said, “and what they told me, and I’m quoting: ‘You’re in the best hands. We’re going to develop Wonder Woman 3You are welcome. [We]Love you, as Wonder Woman — you’ve got nothing to worry about.’”

But now “sources with knowledge of the situation” have told Variety that Gadot is mistaken. According to their sources, Gadot was never promised anything. Wonder Woman 3 Wonder Woman isn’t in production and no Wonder Woman projects are planned for the DC Universe after the Max prequel. Paradise Lost, which will be set on the island of Themyscira, home to Wonder Woman’s tribe of Amazonian superwomen, before her time.

There wasn’t “any definitive discussion of Gadot’s Wonder Woman continuing with the new DC Universe,” Variety’s sources said.

Gadot isn’t completely banned from future performances as the superhero, but these denials don’t rule it out. Gadot may have gotten the short end of the stick but she wasn’t as firmly thrown out as Henry Cavill who announced that Superman was over in public after meeting Gunn and Safran and has had his role recast. Gadot could potentially return as Wonder Woman under the DC Elseworlds banner, where non-canon takes on DC characters such as Robert Pattinson’s Batman and Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will live.

Gadot’s inclusion in an official DC Universe project isn’t entirely out of the question, either. Gunn and Safran aren’t shutting the door on all DC projects that predate their reboot of the universe: Gunn has already said that Xolo Maridueña, star of this month’s Blue BeetleThe new DC Universe will keep the role of the movie. But Gadot’s Wonder Woman, as a key figure in DC movies from the Zack Snyder era, might present more issues for the new regime, even in a cameo role — and Variety’s sources do seem to want to draw a line between her and the new DC Universe.

Either way, it seems unlikely Gadot will return to the role soon — and a third Wonder Woman film is definitely out of the question. Wonder Woman 3 Patty Jenkins had directed the first two movies, and the project was in the development stage. But in December of 2022 Gunn, Safran, were about to present their vision of what the DCU would look like in the future. Jenkins, at the time, confirmed she did not walk away from the film, but was informed that it would never move forward. She seems to have at least gotten the message.