He's got a date with an Angel... Chris Pine IS Steve Trevor!

[Loki882]

Which is impressive, since I felt like Evans and Atwell had great chemistry as well.

 

[Smilodon]

Chris Pine is the mightiest Chris of them all. Worried that he was stunt casting at first, but he has excellent chemistry with Gal.

Maybe Chris might've taken the role too because it was a lesser commitment probably. Playing Hal would've been a much bigger on him and he does kinda already have Trek under his belt.

 

[The Guard]

I was kind of surprised that:

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They let Steve and Diana be intimate with each other. Maybe I'm just so used to many writers in the comics be terrified of the notion of WW having sex that it was a nice change of pace.

I thought it was nice that they were a bit ambiguous with it.

 

[Jekecy]

I knew it was going down the second Pine looked back from leaving the door, and Gal was quietly staring at him in lust. That close-up was of her was

I was screaming inside for them to get it on.

 

[Silvermoth]

Ha, I was the same but for seeing Chris below the belt. His abs were foyne

 

[terry78]

Went to go see it again this afternoon and managed to sit in front of a row of teenage chicks who pretty much said some version of "omg he is so ****ing hot" everytime Pine came onscreen, and actually were pissed when he wasn't.

 

[Loki882]

I thought it was nice that they were a bit ambiguous with it.

I don't think that they were actually (and everyone that I saw the movie with felt the same way). It seemed like the classic case of "we can get the point across visually without having to actually show it explicitly." It was, rather tastefully handled actually.

 

[Ardyns]

Btw hasn't Chris Pine signed a multi-picture deal? So we should see him again right?

 

[InvisibleWoman]

Btw hasn't Chris Pine signed a multi-picture deal? So we should see him again right?

I really hope so. Maybe he gets brought back to life in present time... then HE can be the fish out of water. I just can't imagine any other man for Diana at this point.

 

[nyyarod]

I really liked Steve Trevor but I don't want him back. It'll just cheapen the moment he died for me. I also don't want a great nephew or descendant who looks like him either lol

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Chris Pines performance was...above average.

 

[Hypestyle]

Well, I guess we'll have to see what happens with the character, if anything. Flashbacks. "Ghost" appearances? Resurrection via Olympian magic?

 

[SomeOldGuy]

I haven't loved Pine in anything before but I loved him in this. Best supporting actor-caliber turn.

 

[terry78]

Darkseid will bring him back as a zombie shell just to **** with WW.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

I feel like there must have been a creative decision to not actually show him pull the trigger and cause the explosion... there was such a long time between the last time we see him and Diana see the plane explode. Even if he doesn't come back, I feel they gave him room to return somehow. I always believe if you don't see a character die on screen, they're not 100% dead.

 

[IncognitoWalrus]

Bringing him back would be a huge mistake.

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I would like to think Patty did not show Steve actually dying because it would hurt too much. I was hoping we'd cut away before he fired and only see the explosion from afar, and when she did, I was able to rest a little easier.

Honestly, it's important that Patty cast someone too good to be used in a one-time role. Pine brings the qualities needed to a character who proves to Diana that humanity is worth saving.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

Just got back from seeing this a second time... still not okay that he's gone. I think I might need to join a therapy group to get through it.

 

[Team Andino]

Btw hasn't Chris Pine signed a multi-picture deal? So we should see him again right?

Actors often sign on for multiple picture deals, though it never confirms they'll be more for him. Just that IF they needed him he's be locked in. Perhaps a cameo here or there for a flashback or dream sequence.

I really hope so. Maybe he gets brought back to life in present time... then HE can be the fish out of water. I just can't imagine any other man for Diana at this point.

I'd HATE for them to bring him back just to be a fish out of water again. We already saw him experience that on Themyscira in the beginning of the movie, no reason to do it again let alone ruin what his character arc accomplished in WW.

 

[Dark Raven]

Does ‘Wonder Woman’ have the best romantic chemistry of any superhero movie?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...f-any-superhero-movie/?utm_term=.fffbd38264ff

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RICHARD DONNER’s “Superman” spoiled us. When the Man of Steel first soared toward the heavens with Lois Lane on an exhilarating flyover date, the 1978 movie heightened our expectation for most superhero films to follow: Future costumed crimefighters with love interests would surely deliver not only the thrilling action, but also magnetic romantic chemistry.

How sadly seldom that’s been the case.

Christopher Reeve imbued Superman/Clark Kent with a special blend of assured physical presence and throwback screwball-comedy charm — like some corn-fed Cary Grant who could carry off a cape. And Margot Kidder’s winning Lois adroitly pivoted, again and again, from needling Clark’s vulnerabilities to swooning over Supes.

Who knew that such a dynamically sizzling duo might not be found again in superhero cinema till this year? Yes, there have been some highly memorable couplings over the decades: Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in “Spider-Man”; Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (mimicking real life) in the Spidey reboot; Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell in the Captain America films; and the R-rated heat between Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin in “Deadpool.”

Yet none of those had quite the crackling banter and engaging range, from coyly comic to heroically tragic, as Gal Gadot and Chris Pine’s characters in Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman.”

When Yankee spy-pilot Steve Trevor (Pine) crash-lands off the Amazons’s isolated isle of Themyscira, and then revives on the shore looking into the doe eyes of his rescuer, Princess Diana (Gadot), the film begins to launch into a different elevation.

For the next two hours, in fact, every great scene in the film includes both Gadot and Pine as the actors find a rare shared spark for a DC Comics film. The matchhead has been struck on the paradise isle’s beachhead, and every scene between them after that — as they follow their intertwined wartime missions — is like watching the entrancing dance of a flame.

Jenkins and the DC team, including comics writer-turned-film executive Geoff Johns, should be given much credit for crafting scenes between Gadot and Pine that summon echoes of not only “Superman,” but also “Casablanca,” “Roman Holiday” and the Indiana Jones films.

“Steve Trevor should be important to the Diana legacy … and you hit the nail on the head when you said Indiana Jones,” Jenkins tells The Post’s Comic Riffs, of the warm intelligence and air of derring-do she wanted for her film’s male lead.

The dialogue really begins to sparkle, too, when they tease and spar, thrust and parry — whether Diana is catching Steve out of uniform, wearing not even a watch; or they set sail by speaking all around their attraction, with Diana’s knowledge anchored entirely in the academic; or they debate gender roles upon docking in London. These scenes are expertly filled with the filigreed inflections of growing affection, so that even when Diana rejoices in a simple introduction to ice cream, it registers like a heroine willing to explore her fresh appetites. (The moment is right out of 2011’s “Justice League: Origin” by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, but also harks backs to Audrey Hepburn’s own princess-out-of-water tale in “Roman Holiday.”)

And at the core of this dynamic duo, of course, we find two talented actors who were able to mold performances from the clay of the sharp script, then heat their craft in the kiln of mutual art.

“They both got along so well and have so much on-screen chemistry,” Matthew Jensen, the film’s director of photography, tells Comic Riffs. “They’re both so funny — both are such skilled comic visual performers — and they really complemented one another.

“I think they both just really responded to the characters and the difference in the world views that each character had,” he continues. “I think that provided them with a lot of great material to work with.”

Then Jensen, with a visual stylist’s expert eye, nods to the obvious.

“They’re both so photogenic,” he says, “I would have to work hard to make either of them look bad.”

 

[Dark Raven]

Maybe DC could make a Steve Trevor prequel movie on his life before he met Diana. It could detail how he comes to work for British intelligence and his mission to infiltrate the Germans. It could end with him crash landing on Themsycrira. He's a strong enough character to carry his own movie.

 

[Richard Grayson]

I'm ok if they decide to bring him back somehow. If not though I'd put the breaks on any LI in the sequel a la Winter Soldier

 

[signalman]

Maybe the FLASH can race back into time and bring Steve into modern times as a Birthday Present for Diana.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Maybe the FLASH can race back into time and bring Steve into modern times as a Birthday Present for Diana.

Really? Three seasons of these shenanigans have taught us nothing?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Pine really nailed the role. He tends to be good in everything and didn't disappoint here.

I am another who hopes they don't bring him back unless it's in a flashback cameo. Don't cheapen his death please WB.

 

[Team Andino]

Maybe DC could make a Steve Trevor prequel movie on his life before he met Diana. It could detail how he comes to work for British intelligence and his mission to infiltrate the Germans. It could end with him crash landing on Themsycrira. He's a strong enough character to carry his own movie.

While I'm sure that could be a fun film, I can't look past the fact WB is having enough problems getting a Flash, Batman, or Superman follow up in the works. A solo Steve Trevor reminds me of the Agent Carter show that came a couple years ago. It would be fun to fill in the backstory, but it's not something I'd imagine getting enough demand to get them to do it.