Zack Snyder’s Justice League sets up a potentially better arc for the upcoming Wonder Woman 3. The 4-hour Snyder Cut has officially restored the arcs, characters, and execution that got taken out from the 2017 theatrical version. One of the characters who was affected by it was Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman as she had a number of different scenes in the Snyder Cut, compared to what Joss Whedon had done with Gal Gadot’s DC heroine. Despite being the Justice League movie fans were going to get in 2017, the HBO Max film is regarded as being outside the DCEU.
So far, Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984 do mostly line-up with Zack Snyder’s Justice League since they are both prequels to the main DCEU timeline. But for Gadot’s next film, Wonder Woman 3, it is possible things will be different. The untitled Wonder Woman 3 will have a contemporary setting, as both Gadot and director Patty Jenkins have expressed wanting to do Diana’s next story in modern times. While DC directors may consider Snyder Cut canon to their franchises, Warner Bros. has, according to the director himself, decided to make Whedon’s film canon with the rest of the DCEU going forward.
Regardless of how Warner Bros. chooses to go forward, Zack Snyder’s Justice League did give Diana a big ending that could set up an even better Wonder Woman 3. Based on that continuity, Diana hasn’t been back to Themyscira since she left the island in 1918 to discover Man’s World in the hope of defeating Ares. In Wonder Woman 1984, it becomes evident that Diana had still stayed behind in Man’s World after the tragic death of Steve Trevor. In the Snyder Cut, when Queen Hippolyta and the rest of the Amazons lose against Steppenwolf, who takes their Mother Box, Diana’s mother lights the ancient warning fire.
But when she fires the arrow, Hippolyta begs for Diana to return home, confirming that her daughter hasn’t been back to Themyscira since 1918. The ending of Zack Snyder’s Justice League sees Diana holding that arrow and looking out into the world, alluding to her missing mother and Themyscira. Why Diana hasn’t been back to Themyscira is so far unclear, but the Snyder Cut was obviously setting her up to go back home after the invasion of Apokolips. This is a plot point that the Wonder Woman franchise is missing and will hopefully deal with in the third installment.
Even if Zack Snyder’s Justice League isn’t fully connected to the future DCEU films, this is a storyline that Jenkins’ third Wonder Woman outing would benefit from. What is Themyscira like in the present time since Diana left all those decades ago? What would it be for Queen Hippolyta to find out what Diana has become to the rest of the world as Wonder Woman? A revisiting of Themyscira would allow a crucial element of the Wonder Woman films to be explored again and hopefully, thanks to Zack Snyder’s Justice League setting it up, will be something Wonder Woman 3 takes into account.
Originally from https://screenrant.com/justice-league-snyder-cut-wonder-woman-sequel-setup/