I thought it was such a journey to create Wonder Woman in the first film, so what I wanted to do this time was make a Wonder Woman movie.
It only seems fair that she should appropriate the essential core of Superman II to hang the second Wonder Woman story on.
In that way she’s even greater than Superman, and ultimately why Wonder Woman 1984 is the movie we so very much need right now.
While Wonder Woman 1984 certainly earns its place as an outlier from the DCEU’s early grimdark fare like Batman v Superman or The Suicide Squad, and even the studio-mandated slugfest ending of the first Wonder Woman, there is one classic DC film it actually shares a deep kinship with: 1980’s Superman II.