Patty Jenkins hits out at ‘dramatic headlines’ claiming ‘war’ with Warner Bros over Wonder Woman
Director has defended her relationship with studio and clarified comments
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Your support makes all the difference.Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has condemned reports that she went to “war” with Warner Bros in the process of bringing the film to the screen.
The filmmaker took issue with the way the New York Post had interpreted quotes from her interview on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, publishing a story titled “Patty Jenkins exposes ‘war’ with Warner Bros over Wonder Woman”.
The story detailed how Warner Bros initially rejected Jenkins’ Wonder Woman script and reported on the “mistrust” between the studio and director. She was also quoted as saying: “Everybody in the industry wanted to hire me. But I felt like they wanted to hire me like a beard; they wanted me to walk around on set being a woman director – but it was their story and their vision.”
Defending her relationship with Warner Bros, Jenkins tweeted: “Versions of this article seems to be everywhere and not true. There was no ‘war’ with warner bros. over ww. I’m talking about 10 years of discussions with 10 different execs through them. And whole beard thing was about other projects at other studios.”
She added: “I felt extremely supported in my vision on both films by @wbpictures, @ZackSnyder all the producers and everyone on board our eventual team. Just was a long road to make it. Let’s chill the dramatic headlines like ‘war’.”
Jenkins made the podcast appearance to promote Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to her original 2017 film.
The Independent’s critic Clarisse Loughrey gave the movie - which came out at the end of last year - a four-star review, writing: “Every brazen beat of Wonder Woman 1984 feels like it’s arrived to pulverise this miserable year into dust.”
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