Surprise Girl 3 Can Solely Occur from Fan Stress, Says Lynda Carter

Whereas the brand new DC film universe isn’t coming till 2025 with Superman, there’s nonetheless a hope for the old films to stay on, both in their very own pocket universe or within the new breed of films. Or extra particularly, there’s nonetheless a hope that Surprise Girl’s story will stay on.

Talking to Yahoo Entertainment, Lynda Carter was requested in regards to the currently-dead Surprise Girl 3. To her, the one option to get it to occur is that if DC followers do what they do finest: rally collectively and lift sufficient demand that James Gunn and Peter Safran take into account placing the film onto their eventual launch schedule. “I simply don’t suppose they’ve the thoughts to do it,” she acknowledged, “except there’s sufficient strain from followers.”

Carter doesn’t identify any explicit fan motion, nevertheless it’s straightforward to think about the Snyder Cut effort operating by her thoughts, if not ones for once-canceled exhibits like Warrior Nun and Community. Greater than something, she looks like the 2 Gal Gadot-led films had been a “nice franchise” that supply one thing particular to the superhero style. “Surprise Girl is completely different from different characters,” she defined. “She’s not only a superhero. Her entire factor is about peaceable options. She’s not aggressive to be aggressive. It’s a distinct story. It’s about internal power, outer power. I don’t know why they tabled it.”

Surprise Girl 3 was formally (and publicly) declared as useless final 12 months when Gadot and director Patty Jenkins had been making it appear to be the movie was going to be a actuality. The truth was, Gunn has no Surprise Girl-related tasks within the works past the Paradise Misplaced sequence centered on a gaggle of Amazons earlier than Diana’s delivery. Jenkins has since moved on to probably kick up a Rogue Squadron movie for Disney once more, whereas Gadot is off doing different films. No matter future Diana has in theaters, it’ll seemingly be sans Gadot and Jenkins, and presumably even Carter, save for an eventual cameo.

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