Gal Gadot has recently announced that she’ll be returning to play Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, and working with James Gunn on Wonder Woman 3. The news comes as a surprise, since it was not previously announced as part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s reimagined DC Universe, or their upcoming Chapter One: Gods and Monsters slate.
Gadot previously played the iconic female superhero in Wonder Woman and its sequel Wonder Woman 1984, which were both directed by Patty Jenkins. It’s unclear at this point if Jenkins will return.
While we wait for more information on the Gunn / Gadot collaboration, Gadot has a number of high profile films in the pipeline, starting with the Netflix action spy movie Heart of Stone.
Heart of Stone
Tasked with ensuring the safety of a valuable asset, intelligence agent Rachel Stone is about to face the biggest mission of her career to date. Gadot stars as Stone in the upcoming Heart of Stone film, alongside Fifty Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan. Heart of Stone is directed by British director Tom Harper, and also includes Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo and Matthias Schweighöfer in the cast. Read more about the film here.
Heart of Stone will premiere on Netflix on August 11, 2023.
Snow White
Disney’s Snow White is a live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale. Rachel Zegler in the titular role and Gadot starring as the Evil Queen. This is the latest film in a long string of Disney live-action remakes, including The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
Marc Webb, known for The Amazing Spider-Man and (500) Days of Summer, is directing the film with a screenplay from Erin Cressida Wilson and Greta Gerwig.
Snow White is scheduled with a UK release date of March 22, 2024.
Red Notice 2 + 3
Netflix’s hugely successful action crime movie Red Notice has been green lit for two more films. As of July 30, 2023, Red Notice is the Most Popular English-speaking film on Netflix, with a total 454,200,000 hours watched, and 230,900,000 total views.
Gadot stars as Sarah Black / The Bishop, with Dwayne Johnson as John Hartley and Ryan Reynolds as Nolan Booth. While development has been delayed on Red Notice 2, in part due to the busy schedules of its three main stars, Gadot shared a promising update on the film’s screenplay. With her public comment, hopes are that the film will enter production soon, with Red Notice 2 and 3 planned to shoot back-to-back.
Cleopatra
Denis Villeneuve is directing a Cleopatra biopic, with Gadot confirmed to play the Egyptian Queen. Not much is known about the film, but Gadot has said of the project “[Cleopatra] was so ahead of her time. Egypt and what Egypt was back then, was still futuristic to where we are today.” Although she wasn’t able to share much in her interview with Vogue Hong Kong, she added that the film will be a celebration of Cleopatra’s legacy. With “a beautiful script”, Gadot hopes to “change the narrative of Cleopatra simply being a seductor”. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was previously attached to the project, before Denis Villeneuve signed on.
Irena Sendler
Gadot is set to star as Polish Heroine Irena Sendler in this World War 2 drama. Sendler was a social worker, nurse and active in the Polish Underground Resistance. In partnership with Warner Bros., Gadot is producing the film with her husband Jaron Varsano through their production company, Pilot Wave. The film has been in development for many years, with The Wheel of Time producer Justine Juel Gillmer penning the screenplay.
Additional projects
Gadot is also working on science-fiction romance film Meet Me In Another Life. The film is an adaptation of Catriona Silvey’s novel of the same name. Gadot will star and produce through Pilot Wave, in partnership with Atlas Entertainment. She is also attached to star and produce in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film To Catch a Thief, in addition to starring as Hedy Lamarr in a currently untitled television miniseries.