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New Speculate Female 1984 trailer reveals Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah at DC Fandome

Gal Gadot is back as Question Lady.

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The long-awaited Question Lady 1984 second trailer dropped Saturday all through DC FanDome, DC Comics’ first at any time virtual enthusiast convention. The trailer presents a excellent appear at Kristen Wiig’s wild-haired seem and animal-print costume as villain Cheetah, and it even characteristics Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) modeling parachute trousers and a star-spangled fanny pack.

The movie moves the motion from the 2017 very first film’s Environment War I setting to the colorful 1980s, and the trailer reveals off traditional retro fashions as perfectly as Wonder Girl (Gal Gadot) battling Cheetah in what seems like the White House.

Gadot returns as the Amazonian superhero for the sequel, and Pine’s Trevor also returns, in spite of presumably dying through the 2017 movie. He is a bit baffled by the time bounce from his WWI era, marveling at Speculate Woman’s skill to stay youthful (get applied to it), and amazed by inventions these types of as radar and parachute pants. (“Does everyone parachute now?” a large-eyed Trevor asks.) The movie also stars Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord, Robin Wright as Speculate Woman’s aunt, Antiope, and Connie Nielsen as her mom, Hippolyta. Director Patty Jenkins is also back for the new film.

Kristen Wiig’s Barbara Minerva and Wonder Woman start out as buddies, but Minerva turns to evil and takes on the persona of supervillain Cheetah.

Warner Bros. video clip screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET

Through the DC FanDome panel, cast associates and Jenkins reminisced about entertaining on the established, which include a battle scene the place Wiig’s hair bought caught in Gadot’s costume.

Enthusiasts, which include tennis star Venus Williams, asked concerns. Williams wondered who’d gain in a tennis match between Surprise Lady and Cheetah, and Wiig insisted it would be her character, given that Wonder Female would likely have a gold racket that would be much too weighty. Cast customers also praised lover art and cosplay shots, and in a spotlight, Lynda Carter from the 1970s Wonder Female Tv display, appeared to chat with the forged.

“You are a true-life Ponder Girl,” Gadot explained to Carter. Jenkins said the solid talked about Carter each and every day though producing the film. And Carter herself explained her possess daughter unveiled it wasn’t right up until seeing Gadot in comprehensive costume that she truly recognized why the strong superhero mattered to so numerous persons.

“We’re not below to reinvent Ponder Female,” Jenkins reported to Carter. “We’re just right here to take the torch and move it ahead.”

The to start with trailer arrived out in December and featured Marvel Woman using lightning, in addition showed some of her doomed friendship with archeologist Barbara Minerva, who turns into Cheetah.

The film was originally intended to hit theaters in late 2019, but got delayed right until 2020, and then delayed once more by the coronavirus pandemic. The studio is now hoping for an Oct. 2 release date.

The 1st movie was largely established during Globe War I, but the sequel has jumped in advance to the Chilly War 1980s, with the vivid hues and buying malls of that decade actively playing a role.