{"id":731532,"date":"2026-06-28T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:22:19","slug":"adria-arjona-is-wonder-woman-in-gunns-man-of-tomorrow-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731532\/","title":{"rendered":"Adria Arjona Is Wonder Woman In Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While discussing Supergirl\u2018s flop with my Hollywood insiders, I\u2019ve been informed that Adria Arjona is playing Wonder Woman in James Gunn\u2019s Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, the sequel to his Superman movie set for release in summer 2027.<\/p>\n

First, a quick note on Supergirl, with more coming later: I\u2019m told they knew the film was going to be a complete disaster. The most recent estimates have dropped to a $38M weekend<\/a>, and the foreign box office is being described as horribly low<\/a> by Deadline.<\/p>\n

\"AdriaAdria Arjona as Wonder Woman fan art<\/p>\n

Adria Arjona Is Playing Wonder Woman, Not Maxima<\/p>\n

Back to Adria Arjona.<\/p>\n

When her casting news first surfaced, the trades were not all on the same page. Some reports said she was playing Maxima. Other outlets said they could not confirm that.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m told there is a reason for the confusion: Gunn wrote the character into the Man of Tomorrow script as a placeholder, where the role could have gone either way, Maxima or Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

From what I am told, Adria Arjona is playing Wonder Woman in the current script of James Gunn\u2019s Man of Tomorrow, not Maxima.<\/p>\n

Note: These are the same insiders who told us first about Daredevil: Born Again getting retooled<\/a>, which the trades confirmed exactly, months later. <\/p>\n

\"Supergirl<\/p>\n

The Problem Is The Script<\/p>\n

However, from what I am hearing, Man of Tomorrow has a familiar problem, the same one now hanging over Supergirl: the script.<\/p>\n

Since Gunn initially wrote the character as a placeholder, my insiders say Wonder Woman is not being treated like Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey have no take on Wonder Woman, even though she\u2019s in Man of Tomorrow. She\u2019s so generalized, that she is interchangeable with Maxima,\u201d I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

Man of Tomorrow is still more than a year away, so with Gunn getting the greenlight to use Wonder Woman, the script can obviously still be improved and changed.<\/p>\n

At this point, it better be.<\/p>\n

After the reaction to Supergirl, where the script is being overwhelmingly blamed, DC cannot afford another movie where the character work feels generic and interchangeable. <\/p>\n

Gunn publicly said the scripts have to be perfect first. From what I have been told, that\u2019s all out the window.<\/p>\n

\"SupergirlPhoto Credit: DAVID JON @DAVIDJONPHOTOGRAPHY
Supergirl New York Premiere 06-22-26<\/p>\n

Gunn\u2019s DCU Sounds More Like Feige\u2019s Marvel<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also told Gunn has been running DC like Feige\u2019s Marvel, with a basic structure, a writers room to fill in the comedy and lazy manipulative emotional beats, pre-vized action scenes, and scripts being worked on as they go.<\/p>\n

That sounds less like the \u201cscripts first\u201d promise and more like the same assembly-line approach fans have already been rejecting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also told Man of Tomorrow will have more cameos and a lot of fan service \u201cbecause this may be it\u201d for Gunn and his DCU.<\/p>\n

This also explains why the Supergirl writer, Ana Nogueira, recently said the Wonder Woman movie is \u201cso early,\u201d<\/a> while following the release of Superman last year, the trades reported that the Wonder Woman film was being fast-tracked. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s because Gunn might not get a chance to do it. We\u2019ve previously been told that Gunn is out with the sale of WBD to Paramount<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While discussing Supergirl\u2018s flop with my Hollywood insiders, I\u2019ve been informed that Adria Arjona is playing Wonder Woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[23228,88,208,206,209,76234],"class_list":["post-731532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adria-arjona","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies","tag-superman","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}