Wonder Woman 1984 producer Charles Roven and star Gal Gadot are opening up about how Diana has changed since 2017's Wonder Woman. Arriving more than three years after the first installment, Wonder Woman 1984 finds Diana in the 80s, years after she first left her home of Themyscira and joined the world of men. The first Wonder Woman was a massive success, earning $821.1 million worldwide and a 93 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. Since then, fans have eagerly awaited the next installment in Diana's story, and it will finally premiere in theaters this fall.

Major plot details have been kept tightly under wraps, but the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer did confirm one thing: Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) is back. After seemingly sacrificing himself for the greater good in the first film, Steve appears alive and well in 1984. Fans were thrilled to see he has returned, but no one is likely more happy than Diana herself, since the loss of Steve affected her deeply in Wonder Woman. It also seems like she's carried that loss with her into Wonder Woman 1984, as well as a few other losses. The Diana of 1984 isn't exactly the Diana who crossed No Man's Land in World War I.

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During Screen Rant's visit to the set of Wonder Woman 1984, Roven and Gadot spoke a bit about how Diana has changed in the decades since her first film. When the large time jump between the two movies was officially confirmed, fans immediately began to wonder what Diana has been up to and how the events of Wonder Woman have impacted her. Luckily, Screen Rant has the scoop. Roven first explained:

We wanted to actually deal with the evolution of her character from the time that we left her. And we didn’t want it to just be the next day. We wanted to pick up a character who had lived life here in our world for a period of time, and who was a bit seasoned. And also had dealt with not just the loss of Steve Trevor, but also the loss of her other friends and companions over a period of time, because she doesn’t age and they do. So when we meet Diana in 1984 she lives a rather monkish or Spartan life other than the fact that she’s still totally interested in antiquities... but also the only joy that she’s really getting is when she has the opportunity to help people.

She’s still doing it in a secretive way, and you find out how she continues... there may be rumors that there’s an 'amazing woman' out there, but nobody really knows how to grab that. We don’t have CCTV yet, back in the '80s, and phones that take pictures and things like that. So she has an easier job than somebody would have today. But basically we wanted a character who still had desires that she couldn’t fulfill, and a sadness to her. But still had this wonderful energy when she was doing the thing that she felt she was brought here to do.

And from the mouth of Diana herself, Gadot said:

I think she's very happy to be here, and I think she's quite lonely. She's engaging with people, but she doesn't have any close relationships. Because she's going to hurt them at some point, she'll have to disappear, or she's going to get hurt because they'll die and she won't. And I think she accepted [that] as fact. At her core, her calling is to be here and to help mankind to do good. And that's exactly what she's doing. But she's still missing the one who was the love of her life. She never got to really explore that relationship. And that's it. But she's happy. She's very happy.

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Wonder Woman 1984's first trailer showed Diana still mourning the loss of Steve, but she doesn't seem completely closed off from the world as she's seen interacting with Kristen Wiig's Barbara Minerva. Diana's also glimpsed knocking out security cameras during a fight scene at the mall, supporting Roven's comments about Diana carrying out good deeds in secret.

Based on Roven and Gadot's comments, it sounds like Diana has undergone quite the transformation. While she still believes in doing good and protecting humanity, it seems like she's lost a bit of that wide-eyed wonder (no pun intended) from the first film. Diana's loneliness is interesting to consider, as she is someone with a massive heart who must want to get close to people. How that changes her actions is yet to be seen, but might make for a noticeable change. Steve's return is bound to help with that loneliness, provided he's returned for the right reasons. Regardless, fans will be seeing a newly developed Diana when Wonder Woman 1984 hurtles into theaters.

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