SciFiNow - 06.2020

MCM LONDON

018 COMIC CON

We get

prepped

for MCM

London

2020.

TERMINATOR:

014 LIVE!

Watch The

Terminator

with a live

orchestra?

We’re in!

WHY DON’T YOU

016 JUST DIE!

Director Kirill

Sokolov tells

us all about

blood-fuelled

horror...

ALTERED

013 CARBON

We look

behind the

scenes

of Altered

Carbon.

“WHAT IS SO interesting to me about the

Eighties and us right now is that we are living

in a period of time of the greatest success of

• probably not the greatest – but the greatest
  contemporary success of really getting
  everything you thought you ever wanted. So
  what does one do when they’re faced with
  that kind of dilemma?” Patty Jenkins explains
  to us when we ask her about the time period
  her new movie, Wonder Woman 1984 (or
  WW84), is set. “That was something that I
  was really thinking about while I was making
  the last movie. You know, [with] truth being a
  big part of Gal and Wonder Woman I thought
  it was an interesting thing to explore with this
  movie, [the idea of] what is the truth? What’s
  the truth behind what’s possible? What’s the
  truth behind what you want in this world?”
  This theme of the dilemma one faces when
  they get everything they want fits in with
  the movie’s new adversary, Barbara Minerva,
  played by the brilliant Kristin Wiig: “Barbara
  is a new person faced with those dilemmas
  of the contemporary world of, you know,

| (^009)
We speak to director Patty Jenkins about rolling up those
sleeves to the elbows and diving into the Eighties with
Wonder Woman 1984...
WORDS ADAM TANSWELL
dreams. She gets the job of her dreams and
everything, but then who do you become?”
WW84 reunites audiences with Diana
Prince, aka Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot),
and also surprisingly reunites Diana with
her former love Steve Trevor (Chris Pine)
who seemingly died in the first movie.
Unsurprisingly however, given the title, the
film is set 1984, which is a very different era
to when the first film was set during WWII.
“What we did in 1917, what I found so
interesting, is it’s both a long time ago and to
them it was completely contemporary. It was
the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
and it was the beginning of really strong
feminism and so at that time they’re thinking
that so much has changed. So what’s
interesting to me about the Eighties is that the
victories had been won and we were free and
everything was fine, but yet so many of the
differences were still in place and you didn’t
even realise it.”
Being a teenager during the Eighties, the
music of the time had a big impact on Jenkins.
IT’S A WONDERFUL,
WONDERFUL LIFE...
Patty Jenkins has fond
memories of Eighties music...
MCM LONDON
018 COMIC CON
We get
prepped
for MCM
London
2020.
TERMINATOR:
014 LIVE!
Watch The
Terminator
with a live
orchestra?
We’re in!
WHY DON’T YOU
016 JUST DIE!
Director Kirill
Sokolov tells
us all about
blood-fuelled
horror...
ALTERED
013 CARBON
We look
behind the
scenes
of Altered
Carbon.
“WHAT IS SO interesting to me about the
Eighties and us right now is that we are living
in a period of time of the greatest success of

• probably not the greatest – but the greatest
  contemporary success of really getting
  everything you thought you ever wanted. So
  what does one do when they’re faced with
  that kind of dilemma?” Patty Jenkins explains
  to us when we ask her about the time period
  her new movie, Wonder Woman 1984 (or
  WW84), is set. “That was something that I
  was really thinking about while I was making
  the last movie. You know, [with] truth being a
  big part of Gal and Wonder Woman I thought
  it was an interesting thing to explore with this
  movie, [the idea of] what is the truth? What’s
  the truth behind what’s possible? What’s the
  truth behind what you want in this world?”
  This theme of the dilemma one faces when
  they get everything they want fits in with
  the movie’s new adversary, Barbara Minerva,
  played by the brilliant Kristin Wiig: “Barbara
  is a new person faced with those dilemmas
  of the contemporary world of, you know,

| (^009)
We speak to director Patty Jenkins about rolling up those
sleeves to the elbows and diving into the Eighties with
Wonder Woman 1984...
WORDS ADAM TANSWELL
dreams. She gets the job of her dreams and
everything, but then who do you become?”
WW84 reunites audiences with Diana
Prince, aka Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot),
and also surprisingly reunites Diana with
her former love Steve Trevor (Chris Pine)
who seemingly died in the first movie.
Unsurprisingly however, given the title, the
film is set 1984, which is a very different era
to when the first film was set during WWII.
“What we did in 1917, what I found so
interesting, is it’s both a long time ago and to
them it was completely contemporary. It was
the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
and it was the beginning of really strong
feminism and so at that time they’re thinking
that so much has changed. So what’s
interesting to me about the Eighties is that the
victories had been won and we were free and
everything was fine, but yet so many of the
differences were still in place and you didn’t
even realise it.”
Being a teenager during the Eighties, the
music of the time had a big impact on Jenkins.
IT’S A WONDERFUL,
WONDERFUL LIFE...
Patty Jenkins has fond
memories of Eighties music...