Wiig’s casting is great news, since the three big bads Princess Diana fought previously – Doomsday, Ares and Steppenwolf – bored the fuck out of me.
The “Saturday Night Live” vet is coming off a busy 2017, having lent her talents to “Despicable Me 3,” “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later,” “Big Mouth,” “Nobodies,” “The Last Man On Earth,” “mother!” and “Downsizing.”
Prior credits include “Knocked Up,” “Bridesmaids,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Extract,” “MacGruber,” “Date Night,” “Paul,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “Welcome To Me,” “Her,” “The Skeleton Twins,” “Zoolander 2,” “The Martian,” “A Deadly Adoption,” “The Spoils Before Dying,” “Ghostbusters” and “Sausage Party.”
“Wonder Woman” helmer Patty Jenkins reportedly returns to direct from a screenplay by Dave Callaham (“Doom,” “The Expendables,” “Jean-Claude Van Johnson”) and Geoff Johns (“Blade: The Series,” “Smallville,” “Arrow,” “The Flash”).
