Sounds like we’ll see Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) again in Wonder Woman 3

Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins teases the third and final movie in the trilogy. Also, sounds like Amazon’s are heading for the Snyder Cut.

After many delays, director Patty Jenkins’ movie Wonder Woman 1984 came out last weekend, to mixed reviews. But one thing pretty much everyone liked was the acting from Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Pedro Pascal as villain Maxwell Lord, and Kristen Wiig as Barbara Minerva, a scientist who starts out friendly but ends the movie as the malevolent Cheetah.

Or does she? Barbara turns into Cheetah after wishing to become “an apex predator, like nothing there’s ever been before.” Max Lord has absorbed a wish-granting magic rock (just go with it), so he has the power to make her wish a reality, and he does.

But at the very end of the movie, after Wonder Woman pleads with the world to renounce their wishes lest the planet plunge into chaos, we see Barbara looking more like her old self, with none of her Cheetah makeup. Did she renounce her wish and go back to normal? Or maybe Cheetah can go between human and cat-woman forms at will? It’s not clear, and that was the point. “I have my reasons for making it ambiguous, and I think it’s not clear what her point of view [is] on everything that just happened,” Jenkins told Den of Geek. “I love that we wrap up Max Lord’s point of view, and that you see the culmination of that storyline, I think is so important. But the truth is there may or may not be more to come [for Barbara].”

That sounds like everything shy of a firm confirmation to me. When Wonder Woman 3 hits screens, I expect to see Barbara back in action, as Cheetah or otherwise.

And if you can’t wait that long to see Wonder Woman-adjacent characters, all you have to do is watch Zack Snyder’s redone version of Justice League, which comes out on HBO Max in March of next year. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Connie Nielsen — who plays Wonder Woman’s mother Queen Hippolyta in both movies — will make an appearance, and possibly a pretty splashy one:

"Zack had already called me to ask if I would be okay with a reissue of the film with changes. And I asked him, ‘Well, will you bring back the Amazon chapter the way you had written it and had filmed it?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely.’ And then I said, ‘And Zack, will you also bring back my quite incredible stunt, running up the walls?’ And he said, ‘You got it.’ So I said, ‘Yeah, definitely. You’ve got my blessing. Absolutely.’"

The Snyder Cut will run four hours long, split into four segments, so I daresay there’ll be room for everyone.

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