Will Won­der Woman breathe new life into the com­ic book ori­gin story?

Won­der Woman’s appear­ance in Zack Snyder’s Bat­man v Super­man: Dawn of Jus­tice may have been more fleet­ing than hoped, but there was an upside to its brevi­ty – it left plen­ty of her back­sto­ry open to explore. Sure enough, DC has dropped a new trail­er for her upcom­ing solo fea­ture that cov­ers her ori­gins in more detail. As read­ers of the comics will know, it’s pret­ty badass.

Amid the lush moun­tains of The­mysci­ra, an Ama­zon­ian island nation pop­u­lat­ed only by women, the young Princess Diana sets her sights on a sword that ​“only the fiercest” war­rior is able to wield. Cue a com­bat train­ing mon­tage with her aunt Antiope (Robin Wright), which ends with Diana learn­ing how to unleash the pow­er of her wrist­wear, the awe­some­ly named Bracelets of Submission.

From there, Diana trav­els to Lon­don with an Amer­i­can intel­li­gence offi­cer (Chris Pine) in order to end World War One. The set­up promis­es to be a nat­ur­al source of fish-out-of-water humour and soci­etal obser­va­tion, as Won­der Woman adapts to the indus­tri­al set­ting and her sta­tus with­in it.

The film itself is shap­ing up to be a crowd-pleas­er that retains a keen eye on the super­hero movies of the past. Direc­tor Pat­ty Jenk­ins (best known for mak­ing Char­l­ize Theron into a ser­i­al killer in 2003’s Mon­ster) has giv­en Richard Donner’s orig­i­nal Super­man as a pri­ma­ry inspi­ra­tion, along with Indi­ana Jones and – some­what more sur­pris­ing­ly – Casablanca.

We’re not sure what to expect from that trio of influ­ences, but this lat­est trail­er has cer­tain­ly whet our appetite. This has the poten­tial to be an ori­gin sto­ry we can get behind.

Won­der Woman is released 2 June.

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