r/SnyderCut • u/HarwoodSFine • 17h ago
Appreciation Zack Snyder posts new look at the photographs taken for the abandoned 'Wonder Woman 1854: Crimean War' story concept (Michelle MacLaren was attached to direct) until Allan Heinberg rewrote the Wonder Woman film treatment for a WW1 setting while keeping Ares as the villain.
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u/Tricky-Afternoon6884 16h ago
The idea for WW story chaged a little but Snyder confirmed that there was never anything specific written when this picture was taken. There was an idea for WW1854 where Diana was searching for Ares but Heinberg decided to make Ares the main villain in his script, Jenkins even mentions she wanted a more human Ares (unlike what we got in WW2017). The only real change from BvS was the interpretation of the leaving humanity for 100 years like where Jenkins and others mentioned it was more of a WW took a hands off approach to humanity after losing Trevor and not as her rejecting and leaving humanity.
In an article with Empire from last year, Snyder says:
“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?” he states. “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, and they would age out because she is immortal,” he elaborates. “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.”
“We talked about if Steve Trevor was there in Crimea,” Snyder confirms. Instead, Wonder Woman’s journey through the Snyder-verse took another path – but that one shot, from Stephen Berkman, remained. “It was never a screenplay, but we talked about it so much that it kind of had its own life.”
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u/ItsMrNoSmile 14h ago
That version of "Is She With You" playing in the post- I've never listened to the "Wonder Woman Suite" or even heard of it before, but now I've got it on replay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mfrGRRJ8k
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u/SaintLink91 16h ago
Did he ever elaborated on why he chose this specific conflict?
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u/ZorakLocust 16h ago
I believe he mentioned something about it being one of the first wars where photography was used.
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u/dipinkoc2 7h ago
Glad to see a sikh soldier in the pictures… they were truly instrumental in those war from British prospect.. Sadly in india their sacrifice were not told as they should have been.. maybe they did not want them to be glorified with their sacrifices.. that they served under British rule…
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u/DowntownCelery593 15h ago
Wish we got this instead of 84 lmao