James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck\u2019s Batman and Henry Cavill\u2019s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathom<\/p>\n
There was never going to be a completely painless way to break up the old DC gang. Warner Bros\u2019 DC Extended Universe probably needed to be ruthlessly ripped apart in order to create space for James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s brand-new DCU. We almost certainly did need a clean break from the likes of Ben Affleck (Batman) and Henry Cavill (Superman), if only to persuade audiences that this really was a proper reboot. The question, as Gal Gadot may have been pondering this week, is quite why some of the old universe\u2019s supporting players were smuggled safely into the new continuity while others were left sprawling amid the ruins.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>, Gadot, who starred in two solo Wonder Woman movies for director Patty Jenkins, revealed that nobody at DC Studios ever formally told her she had been dropped. One minute, Gadot says, she was being assured by Gunn and Safran that they would develop a third instalment with her; the next, she was looking on in mounting alarm as the entire infrastructure of the previous DC continuum was blown to smithereens. \u201cThey were like, \u2018We\u2019re going to develop it with you, the third one,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cBut I saw the way everybody else was handled, right? And I, you know \u2013 the Henry [Cavill] situation was unfortunate. I was in the middle of that. The Henry situation was not handled elegantly, to say the least. Same with Patty \u2013 it was not handled elegantly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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