<P> While development for the film began in 1996, Jenkins signed on to direct in 2015 . Principal photography began on November 21, 2015, with filming taking place in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy before wrapping up on May 9, 2016, the 123rd anniversary of the birth of the creator, William Moulton Marston . Additional filming took place in November 2016 . </P> <P> Wonder Woman premiered in Shanghai on May 15, 2017, and was released in the United States on June 2, 2017, in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D . It received largely positive reviews from critics, being praised for the direction, performances, action sequences and musical score . The film set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the biggest domestic opening for a film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, the largest opening for a female - led comic book film . Wonder Woman is also the fifth highest - grossing superhero film domestically and 20th highest - grossing film in the United States . It has grossed over $819 million worldwide, making it the seventh highest - grossing film of 2017 . It also helped the DCEU to push past $3 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the seventeenth highest - grossing film franchise of all time . A sequel, Wonder Woman 2, is set to be released on December 13, 2019 . </P> <P> In present - day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate of herself during World War I, which prompts her to recall her past . The daughter of Queen Hippolyta, Diana was raised on the hidden island of Themyscira, home to the Amazonian race of warrior women created by Zeus to protect mankind . Hippolyta shares the Amazonian history with Diana, including how Ares became jealous of humanity and worked to orchestrate its destruction . When the other gods of Mount Olympus attempted to stop him, Ares killed all but Zeus, who managed to hurt Ares enough to force a retreat . Zeus left the Amazons a weapon, the "Godkiller", to prepare them for Ares' return . </P> <P> Hippolyta forbids Diana to train, then relents by having her sister Antiope train Diana, but so long as her training is more difficult than that received by any other warrior in the army . As a young woman in 1918, Diana rescues American pilot Captain Steve Trevor when his plane crashes off the Themyscira coast . He is pursued by a German cruiser . The Amazons kill the crew . Antiope sacrifices herself to save Diana . Steve is interrogated with the Lasso of Hestia . He reveals that a war is consuming the outside world, and that he is an Allied spy . He has stolen a notebook of the Spanish chief chemist Isabel Maru, who is attempting to engineer a deadlier form of mustard gas, under the orders of General Erich Ludendorff . Diana believes Ares is responsible for the war . She arms herself with the "Godkiller" sword, the lasso and her armor before leaving Themyscira with Steve to find and destroy Ares . </P>

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