Chris Pine Shares Being ‘Stunned’ When Wonder Woman 3 Got Canceled

The Star Trek actor who played Gal Gadot's love interest in the previous two movies, stated that he would not have returned for a third one.

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00:00 Chris Pine who featured in Wonder Woman in 2017 and Wonder Woman 1984 in 2020 recently expressed

00:08 his shock to Business Insider about the news that a third installment in the superhero franchise

00:15 would not be produced. "I'm stunned that they said no to a billion-dollar franchise and decided

00:22 to pilot elsewhere," the Star Trek actor said. "I don't know what the reasoning was behind that.

00:27 It's above my pay grade. But Wonder Woman is an incredible character. Betty Jenkins is such a

00:34 thoughtful director." Chris, who portrayed Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman characters' love interest

00:40 in the previous two films, stated that he would not have returned for a third one. "Me, no homie

00:46 is dead. Steve is gonzo. It would be ridiculous to try to bring me back." The Poolman star spoke

00:53 about his character, who died at the conclusion of the first movie but reappeared in the sequel

00:59 when Gal's character wished for him to return to reality. "I had no interest in playing the

01:05 boyfriend and it sounded like second fiddle," Pine expressed. Then in talking to Petty,

01:10 the way she described it was, "Forget the superhero of it all. This is a romance. This is

01:17 Casablanca. That's the movie I want to make." Oh, now that is very cool because when you have seen

01:23 a superhero film that was a love story, ultimately that had nothing to do with the blowing shit up.

01:30 Following the acquisition of DC Studios by James Gunn and Peter Safran, who started to restructure

01:36 the DC Comics extended universe, Wonder Woman 3 was shelved.