5 More Directors Who Were Lumbered With Actors They Didn’t Even Want

Along with just about every comic book fan taking up residence on the Internet at the time, Patty Jenkins was hellbent on making sure Wonder Woman was done justice upon beginning talks to come onboard to helm the then-incoming 2017 DCEU standalone feature.

But having a vision of an out-and-out “all-American” figure for the part of Diana, Jenkins would later admit to Playboy that her "heart sank" when news first broke that Warner Bros. had finally found their Wonder Woman in 2013; that being the elegant Gal Gadot.

This coming before Jenkins had fully confirmed her commitment to bringing Diana's story to life, Jenkins would admit, “I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it and I was like, well, ‘That’s that. I’m sure we wouldn’t have made the same choice.”

But after really "paying attention to her, and watching her and looking at her", Jenkins would eventually confess, "Frankly, I think they did a better job than I could have, because I don’t know that I would have scoured the earth as hard to find her.”

In the time since discovering exactly what brought Gadot brought to the DC dance, Jenkins has since taken to labelling her star as "the greatest" and even brought another super flick into being with her as the lead once again in 2020's Wonder Woman 1984.

Gadot may not have been Patty's first choice, but this unwanted superhero definitely had the director and just about everyone else blasting her casting from the get-go eating their words before long.