Googling a little after that last post, apparently the Wonder Woman movie is set in World War One? Wow that’s bad. Like they went out of their way to avoid bringing her back to her roots, which is unfortunate because a nazi-smashing blockbuster is what we need right now.
“the Wonder Woman movie is set in World War One? Wow that’s bad. Like they went out of their way to avoid bringing her back to her roots”
The issue is that when Wonder Woman went to man’s world in WWII, she stayed there because of what the Nazis and their supervillain allies like Baroness von Gunther, had done. Wonder Woman does not stay in the DCEU, so they need to explain that. The (allegedly) ambiguous morality and ending of WWI, combined with Steve Trevor’s death (most likely) will allow them to explain this.
“which is unfortunate because a nazi-smashing blockbuster is what we need right now.”
Certainly, but your tag claiming that such sentiment is unwelcome in contemporary film isn’t exactly fair. Fury, Allied, The Mighty Eighth, Capt. America, Cpt. America: Winter Soldier, The Lady in Gold, Monuments Men, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Red Tails, Miracle at St. Anna, Their Finest, and Dunkirk all depict the Nazis as hated enemies.
While we’re at it, with the exception of Bridge of Spies, Communism hasn’t come under serious fire in Hollywood since Red Dawn, maybe We Were Soldiers. I’ve got some ideas if people are interested:
The Czech Legion (perhaps based on the book Dreams of a Great Small Nation)
The Miracle of the Vistula; the beleaguered Polish Army halts the Red Cavalry, stemming the spread of Marxist-Leninist expansionism.
Ode to Catalonia by George Orwell, depicting anti-fascist communists who are ultimately betrayed by their government and the Soviet Union.
The Katyn Massacre could use more publicity, though it has a big budget Polish film about it.
Richard Wurmbrand’s story of being imprisoned and tortured by the Romanian Police for maintaining a covert Church community in the 1970s.
Lech Walesa and Solidarity, and Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution could do for a blockbuster (Roger Scruton has a successful novel about the Czech Underground that could serve as a template).
The Battle of Mirbat and the exploits of American Special Ops units in Vietnam are good material for a script, as is the CIA’s support for the Tibetan resistance to China, until the Dalai Lama ordered the insurgents to disarm.
How to eat soup with a knife, an excellent book about the Malayan Emergency, could serve as a springboard for a plot. The struggles of Polish, Ukrainian and Baltic resistance groups against the Red Army after WWII is another story that could be told.
Finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the heroic resistance of the Finns against the Red Army in the Winter and Continuation Wars.