Etta Candy, played by Lucy Davis, was one of the highlights of this summer’s Wonder Woman, stealing each scene she was in with her charm, expert comedic timing, and wardrobe of amazing outfits. All of her scenes were set in London, so unfortunately she didn’t get as much screen time as she should have, but that’s about to change with the imminent Wonder Woman home video release.
The battle on the beach is one of the most visually compelling setpieces in Wonder Woman, and it’s the catalyst that convinces Diana she needs to leave her home’s idyllic shores to save the world of men from themselves. As Patty Jenkins explains in a new behind-the-scenes breakdown of the fight, it was important for the whole thing to be from Diana’s perspective.
Did you love Wonder Woman? Did you see it a ton of times in theaters? Did you mis its IMAX run and wish you could see it again on the biggest screen possible? Good news! The Amazons’ greatest warrior is returning to select IMAX screens this Friday for one day only.
Here in my home of New York, Wonder Woman still has multiple daily showtimes at multiple theaters around town, nearly two and a half months after its theatrical debut. And just yesterday, Warner Bros. announced that they would begin the film’s home-video rollout on August 29 with a Digital HD streaming option before releasing the Blu-ray and DVD on September 19. With theatrical screenings scheduled to continue until at least a week from today, that leaves an eleven-day window during which fans will have to live in a world where they can’t readily watch Wonder Woman at their leisure. It will be a brief dark age, but the specifics of the release suggest that devotees will find the wait worth it.
Wonder Woman, if you can believe it, is still breaking records and defying explanations more than two months after its release. On Tuesday, the film broke past the $400 million mark domestically, now in league with such box office juggernauts as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and, uh, Shrek 2.
Given the film’s box office success and surprising - albeit extremely preliminary - Oscar buzz, it’s probably fair to declare 2017 as the year of Wonder Woman. And all this Wonder Woman excitement has fans asking: after we see the character again in this fall’s Justice League, what’s next for the star of the DCEU? Will she jump forward to the modern world in Wonder Woman 2? Will we continue to see her adventures unfold throughout the 1900s? Or will Warner Bros. do something really wacky with her character, like, I dunno, make her the villain of another DCEU movie?