During a panel at SnyderCon 2023, director Zack Snyder discussed a new and controversial direction he wanted to explore with Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman in his DC movies, which fans might not have enjoyed.

Wonder Woman’s Traditional Origin Story

For those who are familiar with Wonder Woman, the character’s initial origin story involves Diana being sculpted from clay on the island of Themyscira by her mother Hippolyta. Over the years, Diana’s origins have gone through different permutations and retcons, but the bones of the story always have had her growing up and training among the Amazons.

Snyder’s Different Origin For Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman

Snyder originally planned to make Gal Gadot’s Diana a Kryptonian, just like Superman. Plans were in place to have Zeus, Wonder Woman‘s father, originate on Krypton. Snyder noted that, “It’s this whole thing with Ares and Zeus… [We considered how] Zeus could possibly be a Kryptonian. So, that Wonder Woman’s powers… you can sort of see where that’s going. Because the whole thing of whether or not magic or gods… There’s a version of where you’re like, ‘That’s cool, I guess.’ But then there’s also more the scientific aspect. You have the pathology built up of like, ‘Where do gods come from? What is that about?’ We had played around with that quite a bit.”

VFX supervisor John DesJardin added that it was meant to be Zeus’ son Ares who crash-landed the Kryptonian scout ship, as seen in 2013’s Man of Steel. “And Ares was the one who caused the scout ship to crash to be in the ice… He killed his crew.”

Fan Reactions To Snyder’s Plan

Ultimately, Warner Bros. executives disapproved of the idea. If this particular plot element had made it into a finished movie, it wouldn’t have gone over well with the fanbase, given that it completely goes against the traditional way that Gadot’s Wonder Woman has been presented in the comic books and just about every other incarnation.

Reactions to this rejected development were decidedly negative by those on Twitter.

Will Snyder’s Full Vision Ever Be Seen?

Before and after the HBO Max release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, calls to “restore the SnyderVerse” have been relentless. Die-hard fans have been, at times, fully convinced that the director would be allowed by Warner Bros. to finish his film series and make Justice League 2 and 3.

But the chances of this happening are just plain slim. James Gunn and Peter Safran have unveiled their grand plans to reshape the DCU on film, television, and animation, leaving little room for another Snyder League movie, which would need a massive budget and the commitment of several actors who have moved on from the franchise. There have been hopes of a comic book continuation that would adapt Snyder’s outline for the sequels, but that doesn’t seem to be in development either.

While Zack Snyder shared a controversial plan for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, it was ultimately not approved by Warner Bros. While fans may have been disappointed with the outcome, the chances of a SnyderVerse continuation seem slim given the current reshaping plans for the DCU by James Gunn and Peter Safran.