MacLaren, who has also directed episodes of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead , will be the first female director of a DC Comics superhero movie.
Michelle MacLaren
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Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman
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She is also developing the screenplay with producers Charles Roven, Zack Snyder, and Deborah Snyder, with Gal Gadot playing the title superhero after first appearing as Wonder Woman in 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This film has a planned release date of June 23, 2017. (The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news.)
With MacLaren officially taking the director's chair, Warner Bros.' upcoming slate of DC Comics superhero movies continues to break new ground in diversity both in front of and behind the camera. She will be the first female director of a DC Comics superhero movie ever, and Wonder Woman will be the first female-centric superhero movie of the current "golden age" of comic book films, which unofficially commenced with the launch of rival Marvel Studios in 2008. (Marvel Studios will release their own female-centric superhero film, Captain Marvel, in 2018.) Warner Bros. was also the first to announce a superhero film with an African American lead (Cyborg, in 2020), and the first to cast an out actor in a lead role (Ezra Miller for The Flash in 2018).
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