10 Biggest Mistakes The DCEU Has Ever Made
3. Letting Patty Jenkins Write Wonder Woman 1984
Following the success of Wonder Woman in 2017, there were plenty of reasons to be excited that director Patty Jenkins would repeat that crowd-pleasing success on the sequel, 2020's Wonder Woman 1984.
Yet the film released to wildly polarised reviews, many citing the generally clunky script and especially the film's awkward, potentially problematic resurrection of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine).
So, what went wrong? Or rather, what was different this time?
The key creative change between movies was allowing Patty Jenkins herself to co-write the script.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the first movie's writer Allan Heinberg wasn't available to pen the sequel, and given that Jenkins had only a single prior writing credit to her name - for the gritty, Oscar-winning drama Monster, rather than a splashy tentpole - she didn't seem like a decent fit on paper.
And so, it shouldn't have been terribly surprising that the script, also co-written with Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham, was a clumsy mess.
Despite the sequel's reception, Jenkins is still expected to undertake writing duties on the announced third film, which doesn't exactly inspire much confidence - assuming it actually gets made, of course.