'Wonder Woman 1984': Watch Kristen Wiig's transformation as villain Cheetah

Wonder Woman 1984 stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristin Wiig, and Pedro Pascal and director Patty Jenkins unveiled a new trailer for the superhero movie during the DC FanDome virtual convention on Saturday (Aug 22).

The trailer revealed a more extensive look at the film's two villains, Barbara Ann Minerva, aka Cheetah (Wiig), and Maxwell Lord (Pascal). It appears that Lord has discovered a way to give people their deepest desires, which for Diana Prince (Gadot) is the return of her long, long, long lost love Steve Trevor (Pine), who seemingly died at the end of 2017's Wonder Woman.

It also gives fans their first real look at Wiig as Cheetah, which appears to be a progressive transformation that ultimately results in her growing fur and a full tail.

This is the first extended look at one of most highly anticipated movies of the year since the first trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 was released in December 2019.

As with all major movies this summer, Wonder Woman 1984 left its original June release date in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and is currently scheduled to open on Oct 2, 2020.

Whether the film will actually stick to that date remains an open question that will largely be dictated by public health concerns, and how many people head to theatres in the coming weeks to see movies like the Marvel adaptation The New Mutants and the Christopher Nolan thriller Tenet.

One thing that was clear from the panel is that Wonder Woman 1984 likely will not debut on premium VOD.

"We all worked so hard to bring something that would be a big visual spectacular. So we're going to stick it out – we believe in putting it in the cinema," Jenkins said in the panel, before pointedly avoiding mentioning a specific release date. "I can't wait for the movie to come out soon!"

To give a sense of the scope of the movie, Pine noted that the production shut down Pennsylvania Ave in Washington DC during production.

"The little eight year old kid in you can't believe that you're doing what you're doing and that you get the privilege of doing it," Pine said. – Reuters