When Gal Gadot appears in Batman v Superman it's arguably the best moment in the movie. In fact, director Zack Snyder recreated that picturesque and instantly iconic moment—Wonder Woman in the forefront, standing in between Batman and Superman—several times. This was Gadot's first appearance as Wonder Woman, and if it gave you goosebumps, then the trailer for her standalone film (coming out June 2017) is gonna slay you.
The trailer—released over the weekend at Comic Con—shows Princess Diana of Themyscira during the World War I era. And the below 2 minute and 50 second glimpse puts that entire Batfleck movie to shame.
In the movie, Wonder Woman, who has been fighting for freedom and women's rights for 75 years, fights alongside Chris Pine's Steve Trevor, and there's a wonderful moment at the end of the trailer that she shares with his secretary:
"What is a secretary?"
"I go where he tells me to go and do what he tells me to do."
"Well where I come from that's called slavery."
When the world first met Wonder Woman in 1941, Hippolyta—who raised her, and will be played by Connie Nielsen in the movie—explains: "In the days of ancient Greece, many centuries ago, we Amazons were the foremost nation in the world. In Amazonia, women ruled and all was well.” That ended when men took over and made women their slaves.
In this original Wonder Woman storyline, as told by the New Yorker, she meets Trevor when his plane crashes into Paradise Island, the place all the Amazons escaped to—she then brings him to America, "the last citadel of democracy, and of equal rights for women!” The movie seems to stay pretty true to Wonder Woman's roots and origin story.
The movie was directed by Patty Jenkins, and in an interview Gadot explained the importance of that: "[The movie is] a story about a girl becoming a woman... I think only a woman, who has been a girl, can be able to tell the story in the right way. Working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different. We talk about emotions.”
