Wonder Woman Producer Remembers The First Backlash Against Gal Gadot’s Casting

While a lot of excitement continues to brew for Wonder Woman, not many felt as geared up to see Warner Bros. very first DC Extended Universe film installment from the moment the film was announced.

Speaking in an interview with Joblo, Wonder Woman producer Charles Roven recalls the backlash the film received when it announced its casting. Comparing the casting controversy the film made with that of The Dark Knight, Roven remembered:

"Oh no, there was terrible backlash. There was backlash when we made Heath The Joker, it was a pretty big backlash. When we made Ben Batman, the same thing. That's the other thing as to why you've got to be a little bit, you have to revere the fans but not everything that the fans say is… and there is a lot of fan opinion. You've got to be careful, and ultimately you have to take all that in and still have your own instinct about what to do."

The tide turned after fans got to see Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman. Not only did viewers praise her version of the Amazon Princess, they also considered her appearance as one of the highlights of the film.

"I think that the thing that we looked at was the amount of push back that we got on BVS. At least in terms of things that we should look at about tone. Even though we felt very strongly that in the making of the film - and if you actually look at the canon of when Batman and Superman fought. that that's a very dark comic. And this movie was going to be dark. As much as everybody embraced it when we announced it, I think that nobody really thought that - but you had to take these characters and get them to the place where two guys that we really admire and like, are going to fight each other in a really tough way where one may be thinking he's going to take the other one out. How are you going to get that and make it feel real. The good news for us was that we knew that just by virtue of the fact that we were going to be bringing these other guys into the group with this recruitment, it was going to be lighter in tone."

With early reviews praising Gadot's return to the big screen as Diana Prince, many are eager to see the upcoming comicbook movie. Let's hope Wonder Woman is as good as everyone pins it to be.

Read the film's synopsis down here:

Before she was Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, Diana meets an American pilot (Chris Pine) who tells her about the massive conflict that's raging in the outside world. Convinced that she can stop the threat, Diana leaves her home for the first time. Fighting alongside men in a war to end all wars, she finally discovers her full powers and true destiny.

Wonder Woman is slated for release on June 2.

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