Wonder Woman’s new golden armor: What’s it for and how was it made?

Diana Price shows off an amazing golden armor look in the new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984. How did she get it and what does she do with it?

Wonder Woman 1984 is just around the corner, and after this weekend’s DC FanDome event, it’s safe to say we’re all feeling excited. We finally got a good look at Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah, more of Pedro Pascal’s evil Maxwell Lord, and Wonder Woman debuting some incredible new golden armor:

Dare I say that I am obsessed with the new armor. It’s just so fierce, so empowering, and so freaking cool!

Nerdist got to visit the set of the upcoming sequel and dished on the new outfit. What’s special about this particular look is that it comes directly from the 1996 DC comic, “Kingdom Come.” “I love that costume in the lore and I was like, ‘We’ve got to do it,’” said director Patty Jenkins.

So are we.

Wonder Woman 1984 costume designer Lindy Hemming talked about the painstaking detail and work she put into creating the golden armor. “[We’re] trying to develop a lightweight, movable sexy under suit, which is printed to look like some sort of armor,” she said. “So it’s like an armor suit that’s very light in use, lithe and sinewy. All this work starts off almost like tights, and then on top of it, prints different levels of texture. [Then] we can decide what goes best with the weight of the metal we’ve designed—which isn’t metal, of course—for the over suit. It’s a really amazing technique.”

I’m always impressed by the level of dedication and craft it takes to create these costumes. We only see the end result, but it takes months of work to make the final product. A lot of the costume is CGI-based, especially during fight scenes, but there are practical elements to it, too, which is impressive considering this costume is made up of over 100 individual pieces.

At the end of the day, the team created a costume that moves “rather like an armadillo.” This is so Gadot wouldn’t be carrying heavy weight around with her and could actually move around. How cool is that?!

As for what the armor allows Wonder Woman to do, she’ll use the wings kind of like shields against her new foes. “Because Wonder Woman’s timeline is so [shoe]horned in between different movies, it felt weird to suddenly give her a new Wonder Woman costume, and then she puts it back on and [in] Batman v Superman she puts on the old and it’s even more… It just didn’t quite make sense,” Jenkins said. “So this was a fun way that actually is intrinsic to the storyline that she needs a different style of armor to fight Cheetah because Cheetah can get you on all of your limbs. It was something that came very naturally of like, ‘How are you going to get into it with Cheetah and how is that fight going to go?’”

The Wonder Woman comics have always had a special place in my heart, so I’m feeling very hyped for this. Here’s hoping Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t suffer any more delays and makes it to theaters on its new premiere date of October 2, 2020!

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