It’s really hard to watch this new trailer for Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” and have anything else to say besides “YAAAS QUEEN!” Comic book fans, particularly female comic book fans who have been waiting for almost two decades now for their solo female superhero movie, naturally feel a bit nervous about the project. Hopefully with a woman behind the camera, “Wonder Woman” will be able to accomplish what other big-budget DC comic films have failed to do: be a good movie. This amazing new footage suggests it will in fact be a great movie.
As the trailer opens, it’s the modern day and Diana of Themyscira (Gal Gadot) is examining an old photograph of herself and reflecting on her time fighting in World War I. “I used to want to save the world,” she says. “This beautiful place. But the closer you get. The more you see the great darkness within.” We’re whisked back to her rescue of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), and his explanation that The Great War is coming to their all-female island, whether they want it to or not. Cue the badass scenes of female warriors flying through the air, shooting arrows, fighting in trenches, and generally kicking ass.
I can’t emphasize enough how anticipated this movie is, and how much is riding on its shoulders. Hopefully its success will mark a new era in acceptance of films focused on women, particularly in genres in which we rarely get to see them. Women’s stories are universal just as much as men’s.
As TIME previously reported, Jenkins said, “There was a period of time where people were scared to make a female superhero movie, and a Wonder Woman movie in particular. There was an apologist attitude about how do we make her super hard and impressive? And I said, you have to make her universal. She continued, “Why do white men get to be universal and everyone else has to be a smaller story? She is fierce. I’m not worried about that. She’s also vulnerable, loving, falls in love, which is what we’ve always done to Superman. So that’s the thing that I cared the most about. It’s a universal story.”
Another plus from this new trailer? It’s even more evident that actress Lucy Davis is going to be a total scene-stealer as comic relief character Etta Candy. I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of her fisticuffs either.
“Wonder Woman” hits theaters on June 2, 2017, and we cannot freaking wait.
