Los Angeles (USA), Mar 24 (EFE) .- Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that it has postponed the premieres of “Wonder Woman 1984” and “In the Heights”, two films that join the long list of movies The launch of which has been affected by the global crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The sequel to “Wonder Woman” (2017) will hit theaters this way on August 14, instead of the June 5 originally planned; while the adaptation of the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which was to be presented on June 26, has, for now, no release date.
“When we gave the green light to ‘Wonder Woman 1984’, it was with the full intention that it would be seen on the big screen,” Warner Bros. President Toby Emmerich said today in a statement picked up by US media.
“We hope the world is in a safer and healthier position by then (by August),” he added.
These statements by Emmerich seem to reject the information in recent days that Warner Bros. was considering skipping theaters and releasing “Wonder Woman 1984” directly on the digital market as an emergency measure against the coronavirus.
The specialized media The Wrap said last Friday that there were conversations in that regard at the top of Warner Bros. without the studio officially confirming that news.
“Wonder Woman” was a great phenomenon that elevated Gal Gadot as a world star and grossed $ 822 million.
In the sequel, again under the direction of Patty Jenkins, Gadot will be accompanied by Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal, among others.
Along with “Wonder Woman 1984”, the delay in “In the Heights”, the long-awaited film adaptation of the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which features in its cast the versatile artist of Puerto Rican origin accompanied by Anthony Ramos, also draws attention today, Rita Moreno, Melissa Barrera and Corey Hawkins, among others.
Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”, 2019) has directed this film with a lot of Latin flavor that for now has no new release date.
There are also no confirmed release days for the tapes postponed today by Warner Bros. “Scoob,” an animated film based on “Scooby-Doo”; and “Malignant”, the new work by filmmaker James Wan (“Aquaman”, 2018).
The coronavirus has forced movie theaters in much of the planet to close and Hollywood to delay or suspend long-awaited releases without a new release date such as “No Time to Die” (James Bond), “F9” (“Fast & Furious” ), “Mulan”, “Black Widow” or “A Quiet Place Part II”.