Zack Snyder reveals details of the scrapped WW1854 project, which would have found Diana searching for Ares around the globe.
Wonder Woman poses with a trio of severed heads? It’s a graphic image that Zack Snyder unleashed on the internet two years before James Gunn made his detailed announcement of the DCU. And in a new interview, the brains behind the SnyderVerse shares a glimpse at what might have been in the now defunct DCEU for Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince. Wonder Woman 1854 would have found the future Justice League member on the hunt for Ares and taking a number of lovers during those years. Snyder said during his sit-down with Empire:
“The idea of that was an early riff we were doing: Once Wonder Woman left the island in search of Ares, what happened to her in her different incarnations? My idea for it was that she would travel around the world looking for Ares, and she would go to every place where there was conflict. On those battlefields she found these lovers, warriors.”
In the photo Snyder shared via his X, formerly Twitter, account back in January of 2021, Gadot’s Wonder Woman can be seen in 1854 amid a group of warriors. And long before she lopped Steppenwolf’s (Ciarán Hinds) head off in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Diana can be seen holding onto three severed heads in the WW1854 image! Check out Snyder’s social media revelation in its entirety below:
After Henry Cavil’s portrayal of Superman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman ranks as the best superhero from the now extinct DCEU. And who can forget the romantic tension that boiled up — it never went anywhere, though — between Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck)? Well, despite the interest in Gadot’s version of the character, at the time of this writing, Gadot’s Diana hasn’t been included in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plans for the DCU. However, if Wonder Woman 1854 had happened, Diana would have found herself going through a bevy of lovers over the years. Snyder said in the same interview:
“They [lovers] would age out because she is immortal. They would be her lover for ten years, or they might die in battle. And it was probably sad for a lot of the guys because they would see her starting to be nice to the next young soldier and be like, ‘Oh, I’m being replaced.’ But all the guys that she had with her were those loyal warriors she found on the battlefields all over the world.”
Although Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor changed considerably between Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984, it seemed that the character was the “one” for Diana in the confines of the SnyderVerse. And there was talk that Steve would appear in WW 1854, even though he and Diana didn’t meet until the events of the original film, which took place primarily in 1918. Snyder also told Empire:
We talked about if Steve Trevor was there in Crimea. It was never a screenplay, but we talked about it so much that it kind of had its own life.
While the future of the Wonder Woman character herself remains up in the air, Gunn did announce the television series Paradise Lost as a part of his plans for the DCU’s future. The show will focus on the inhabitants of Paradise Island, aka Diana’s birthplace of Themyscira.
