https://www.cbr.com/wonder-woman-3-canceled-gal-gadot-empowered/
So the biggest role of your rather small career and you are happy it is gone? She is not a terrible actress but I don't think she gets another big role like Wonder Woman.
It wasn't her fault WW2 sucked horribly. That falls on Patty Jenkins since she was both writer and director. WW gave Gadot the push she needed for her career to get over as she has been in a lot of films since then. She no longer needs WW3 now, especially since 2 was so bad so she is trying to distance herself.
shareCOVID didn't help it either.
shareNot sure if it did or not. From what we know a lot of people subscribed for its streaming release, at least according to HBO Max which we have no data to look at. If no covid, my guess it has a big opening weekend and then bombs, but covid or not it still remains a bad movie.
shareYes, COVID probably masked its failures, because it never had the opportunity to bomb at theaters.
shareDoesn't matter to me as I didn't see either movie.
shareI wanted to see it at the theater as well as Nomadland but they were both released during the biggest spike of the Covid epidemic which occurred during the 2020 holiday season.
shareShe's controversial. Her Hollywood career is probably finished.
shareWhy is she controversial?
Because she's Israeli? Because she did a crappy version of 'Imagine' during lockdown?
I don't think she's a great actor, and I think she's been seriously miscast in some stuff (esp. the recent Death on the Nile adaptation), but she seems sweet and well-meaning enough. I can't imagine anyone sincerely hating her (unless they were a militant anti-Semite/anti-Israel zealot).
Her insensitivity to the Palestinian vs Israeli situation. Best to stay out of politics if you're trying to start a career in Hollywood.
shareShe's Israeli. She served in the IDL, as all Israelis are obliged to, with a few exceptions. It stands to reason that she's going to be defensive of her home country, but what has she said or done that's particularly insensitive to the Palestinians?
By and large I think the West is far too anti-Palestinian and pro-Israel, rather than more balanced and fair in its handling of the dynamic, but it stands to reason that someone born and raised in Israel, which, for all its issues and its awful right-wing government, is still one of the few legitimately democratic nations in the region, is going to have a different attitude towards Israel than someone who has no personal connection to the country or region.
With all due respect, I think it's quite judgemental and unempathetic of us to condemn an Israeli on this basis.
U.S. opinion is different from most of the West because the U.S. receives more pro-Israel propaganda.
Israel isn't really a democracy. Apartheid? It's a sad situation. Gadot, like most soldiers, face brainwashing. Look at the "enemy", aka: Palestinians, as less than human.
Orthodox Jews have a much higher birth rate than secular Jews. It's only a matter of time before basic freedom for secular Jews becomes an issue, too.
SMART WOMAN...WW84 WAS A TURD...THE OIGINAL IS ONLY MARGINALLY GOOD...SHE'S LUCKY TO BE OFF THAT HOOK.
shareNot a great actress, but I thought she made a great Wonder Woman. It's a shame she didn't get a third full movie, but good luck to her for the future.
shareSpot on.
Not a great actor, but a great Wonder Woman.
She hasn't got the greatest dramatic range, but she *does* have charm and likeability.
She never cared about being WW. It was just a role for her.
shareI thought she was great in this role. This feels like a very bad mistake. These new DC guys better deliver big on her replacement.
shareI think they need to reboot the DC Universe entirely.
That's not a knock on Gal Gadot; just to say that in view of how generally disliked the DCEU is, and how confused audiences can get, it makes sense to completely distance the new DC Universe from what came before.
'I think they need to reboot the DC Universe entirely.'
That's pretty much what Gunn is doing.
"Pretty much"
Although he's keeping some actors for the reboot (i.e. the actors he's worked with on The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker...). I'd prefer if he rebooted entirely.
His argument is that The Flash rebooted parts of the universe, but if he had any sense, he'd reboot ENTIRELY, especially in view of how bad The Flash is flopping. Not enough people will have seen The Flash to understand Gunn's rationale.
I agree it would be better if it was a 'clean break' from the DCEU. I've got a feeling that after the reactions to The Flash there might be some rethinking about at least some of those versions he wants to keep.
shareYou are right that DCEU had/has a lot of problems. They also might have a big problem just with a generalized "superhero fatigue". I know that I've kinda checked out of the genre since Avengers Endgame.
But if anything that makes this move even more puzzling. Like, why blow up your one major success?
I certainly haven't watched a Marvel movie since Endgame.
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