The coronavirus pandemic left moviemakers no choice but to postpone releases of their upcoming films. In the Heights and Wonder Woman 1984 are the latest entrants in a rapidly growing list of movies delayed due to the rampant Coronavirus epidemic. Actor-producer Gal Gadot made the revelation, on Tuesday, in the United States.
Originally slated to release on June 5, 2020, the long-awaited sequel to Wonder Woman will now hit the theaters on Aug. 14. Likewise, In the Heights was initially scheduled for a June 26 release, but will now be released later this year. Details about the movie's new release date are still few and far between, according to a report from CNN Entertainment.
For those unaware, this is the second time Warner Bros. has postponed the release date of Wonder Woman's hotly-anticipated sequel. Earlier, the movie's release date was pushed back from November last year to June 2020. However, Warner Bros. was quite helpless in the first case.
Gadot took to her official Twitter handle to tweet that she's looking forward to a better future despite these scary times. The Israeli actress said she's waiting to experience the power of cinema again along with the rest of the people and confirmed that WW84 has been redated to August 14, 2020.
Director and producer Patty Jenkins posted a tweet expressing his faith in the power of cinema. Jenkins noted that theater owners are influenced by these terrible times as much as we are, remarking that the film will be hitting the theaters on Aug. 14.
The release date of the Jon M. Chu's In the Heights was also postponed. While the filmmakers refrained from divulging the exact reason for their decision to re-date the movie, star Lin Manuel Miranda shared a message of hope via a tweet. Lin Manuel Miranda has created the music, as well as lyrics for the Broadway show that inspired the said movie
Cary Joji Fukunaga's action-adventure film No Time to Die was the first film to re-date its originally scheduled April release date, and will now be released in November. The release date of the Vin Diesel starer F9 has also been postponed by about a year.
Similarly, release dates of movies, including The New Mutants, Mulan, A Quiet Place Part II, have been indefinitely postponed. Last week, Scarlett Johansson starer adventure-superhero film Black Widow followed suit. Taking the uncertain release dates of the aforesaid films into consideration, the two-month adjournment of Wonder Woman 1984's release date doesn't seem so bad.