Wonder Woman’s Hippolyta & Lex Luthor Confirmed for Justice League

Jenkins’ Wonder Woman solo film will explore Diana’s backstory prior to the events of Batman V Superman, revealing why the Amazonian warrior turned her back on mankind after her experience during WWI. It sounds as though Justice League will see Diana make a brief trip back to Themyscira, perhaps to explain to her mother why she has decided to help humanity again, to warn Hippolyta about the dangerous forces that are coming to Earth – or perhaps for some other reason altogether. (To learn more about the history of the Mother Boxes on Earth, perhaps?) Either way, it makes sense for a film about the formation of the Justice League (and, to a lesser degree, the approaching threat of Darkseid) to touch on what the powerful leader(s) of Diana’s home make of everything that’s happening.

As for the return of Eisenberg as Luthor: that character was one of the more controversial elements in the already-plenty divisive Batman V Superman, so it’s probably for the best that his screen time in Justice League will have to be limited by necessity. Lex will be in the same boat as characters like Alfred Pennyworth (Jeremy Irons), Hippolyta, Mera (Amber Heard) and Vulko (Willem Dafoe) when it comes to their roles in Justice League, in this respect. These supporting players’ inclusion, if handled well, should help rather than hurt Justice League, keeping the film’s narrative flowing along and building a richer sense of connection between the different pieces of the DCEU, rather than making Justice League feel overstuffed itself.