
It took over 75 years for Wonder Woman to get her own live-action movie, with that milestone finally being reached on in summer 2017. The movie followed Gal Gadot’s Diana of Themyscira, whom we met the year prior in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, taking her first steps into the outside world in 1918, the final year of World War I. The prequel’s third act saw Diana facing off against Ares, the Greek god of war, but as it turns out, there was a version of this conflict where the superheroine was aided in a unique way by key supporting character Etta Candy.
This reveal comes to us from Welcome to Derry co-creator Jason Fuchs, who wrote an early draft of Wonder Woman and received a ‘Story By’ credit for the movie with Zack Snyder and screenwriter Allan Heinberg. While speaking with Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused, Fuchs started off talking about how he originally envisioned the Diana vs. Ares clash: