Earlier this week, we spotted the first look at Chris Pine as love interest Steve Trevor (OR IS HE?) on the set of Wonder Woman, seemingly confirming the movie takes place throughout different time periods. Now we have a few potential spoilers related to this picture: one confirmed and two unconfirmed. We’ll start with the confirmed one.
The picture was shared by Saïd Taghmaoui, the other guy in the picture who is also playing a character in the film. Taghmaoui later deleted the photo, but he can’t scrub it from the internet, nor can he take back what he revealed about his character to French magazine Ultra: “I’ll be playing a superhero, but details are still under wraps. I can’t tell you much.”
Screen Rant speculates that Taghmaoui may be playing Dan Garrett, the first Blue Beetle.
He was an archaeologist who got his superpowers from an Egyptian blue scarab during World War II, which is in-or-around the same time as the Wonder Woman timeline.
Wonder Woman is rumored to take place (in part) in WWI, not WWII, to be accurate. On the other hand, Warner is developing a “superhero buddy cop movie” based on Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, so it’s not a far fetched speculation that Warner would change Garrett’s backstory slightly to fit into the DC Cinematic Universe.
Now for the really interesting — but completely unconfirmed — rumor from Heroic Hollywood. This rumor would explain how Wonder Woman could be dating a modern day Steve Trevor who seems to have been the same age in 1916. They say Pine is playing two roles: Steve Trevor and Trevor’s grandfather (shouldn’t that be great-grandfather?), who looks just like him. The older Trevor is the one who crash lands on Themyscira and teaches Wonder Woman about the outside world, helping her fight Ares. A century later, Wonder Woman is reportedly fighting Ares again when she runs into a very familiar-looking hot guy who also helps her fight Ares.
It’s definitely just a rumor, which plays on several other unconfirmed rumors, but I like this one, if for no other reason than it gives us multiple Chris Pines (giggity) and gives us an excuse to sing “I’m My Own Grandpa.”
(Via Screen Rant, Heroic Hollywood, and Ultra)
