Wonder Woman 3 (2022)

Wonder Woman 3 is an upcoming superhero film. It is the third film in the Wonder Woman series and an entry in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).

Synopsis
Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) has always sworn to protect mankind - from chaos and destruction of its own making - as Wonder Woman for over a century. But in the present day, the more crimes she stops, the more people are on to her and bent on discovering her secrets. When a new threat rises, Diana must turn to unlikely allies and take on new enemies to save the world again - this time, from the mystical machinations of the wicked sorceress Circe (Tilda Swinton).

Plot
In Germany in November 1918, Circe, an ancient sorceress who draws her power from the evils of mankind, discovers the demise of her father Ares at the hands of his sister Diana Prince, and vows to pick up where he left off and exact revenge on Diana.

In the present day, five years after Steppenwolf's invasion, (as depicted in both Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League), Diana now works for New York City's Museum of Natural History alongside Dr. Helena Sandamark, while also fighting crime as Wonder Woman. Sivana Industries scientist Dr. Veronica Cale attempts to reveal evidence of Wonder Woman's activities throughout the last 100 years to US Senator Jason King, but rival scientist Professor Chemico shoots her down, aware that she first sent the evidence to Lex Luthor. Cale orders her colleague, Thomas Blake, to obtain further evidence from Diana, unaware he is an undercover CIA agent. He secures a date with Diana, and uses it to warn her of Cale's knowledge and intentions.

Meanwhile, Professor Chemico and his assistant Hugo Simmons, seeking to beat Cale to the Nobel Prize, travel to the Arctic to test a climate-control machine. Circe appears, transforming the machine into a gun that can generate ice and snow. Another scientist witnesses this, steals the gun, freezes Chemico and Simmons, and takes up the moniker "Minister Blizzard" as he returns to the US. Cale gives an experimental body-swapping machine, designed by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, to Dr. Doris Zeul, who has a rare, terminal blood disease and intends to cure herself of it by transferring herself into Diana's body. Doris orchestrates a bank robbery to draw Diana's attention, but Diana's protégé, Blake's step-sister and Helena's daughter, Cassie, who was granted similar powers to Diana with an artefact created by Aphrodite (the goddess of love and desires), rescues her. In the ensuing skirmish, Doris ends up in the body of a gorilla named Giganta, and then into a circus performer named Olga, who has the ability to grow to massive size. When King is caught up in the chaos, Diana and Cassie rescue him with the help of ballet dancer, part-time VA employee and former USAF pararescue woman Helen Alexandrios, whom Diana befriended, and her powered cybernetic "Silver Swan" wingpack.

Unknown to Diana, Cale discovered Circe and made a deal to sabotage Professor Chemico's project and eliminate him, intending to remove any obstacle in releasing her evidence. Unknown to Cale, Circe intends to expose Diana's identity and frame her for seeking to use her apparant status as the last of the Old Gods to enslave humanity, which would also plunge the world into chaos, thus increasing Circe's powers and enabling her to use them to eradicate humanity. Circe travels to Venturia, an Atlantean outpost, and recruits its Queen, Clea, discovering her hatred for mankind brought on by Orm Marius' campaign (as depicted in Aquaman). When they reach the surface, Helen confronts them alone, but Circe enslaves her and guides Clea to the Trident of Poseidon; in exchange, Clea gives her stolen Atlantean weaponry, and Minister Blizzard joins their cause. When he arrives in New York, he begins causing the city to freeze over, although Diana and Cassie manage to evacuate it first. Diana uses her Lasso of Truth on Blizzard, but he reveals Chemico and Simmons' location in the process, forcing Diana to travel to the Arctic and rescue them. She returns to the city with Cassie, but they are confronted by an enslaved Helena, who can deactivate Cassie's powers. Despite being weakened, Cassie manages to use the artefact to free Helena, who then restores Cassie's powers, allowing her to rescue Diana when she is injured by Circe's spell.

Despite her injuries, Diana flies with Cassie to the Mediterranean Sea, where they manage to find Themiscyra, meeting Queen Hippolyta. As Diana is healed, she forgives Hippolyta for lying about Diana's heritage and destiny, and Hippolyta convinces her to show the same forgiveness towards mankind, including Cale and Chemico; Diana is further inspired after flashbacks to her memories with Steve Trevor. Cassie repairs Diana's golden armor that originally belonged to the Amazon warrior Asteria, Helen's mother, as well as obtaining a lightning lasso previously owned by Ares. Diana also reveals that her ability to fly is a forgotten Amazon art; thus all the other Amazons, with some difficulty, rediscover the same ability.

Returning to New York, Diana and Cassie encounter Asteria, giving her back her repaired armor. With her help, they confront Clea, who now possesses the power of flight due to the trident and a spell by Circe, as well as Helen. Following a struggle, Asteria frees Helen, using Cassie's artefact and the memory of Helen's late boyfriend James. Diana defeats Clea, and Cassie transfer's Doris' soul back into her original body, saving Olga and destroying the machine, while Asteria destroys Blizzard's gun, causing the city to melt, and he is arrested by Blake's team.

The group, alongside Blake and his team in wingsuits, infiltrate a satellite station used by Max Lord (as depicted in Wonder Woman 1984), as Circe begins using it to hold major cities ransom with the intention of enslaving or destroying mankind. They confront and manage to bypass the enslaved Chemico and Simmons, who wield rediscovered chemicals originally developed by Dr Isabel Maru (as depicted in Wonder Woman) and have been convinced by Circe that the team works for Cale. Circe exposes Diana's identity, but the group manages to confront her before she can do anything else. In retaliation, Circe uses her powers to send the chemical bombs and reanimated warriors to Themiscyra, but the Amazons manage to intercept them, defeating the warriors and disarming the bombs after a fierce battle. Circe is taken aback when she sees Cassie using the lightning lasso, and Diana uses her Lasso of Truth to sieze the broadcast (like she did with Lord's broadcast), express her love for mankind and force Circe to reveal her own plans, enraging her and convincing Chemico and Simmons to stand down. With a combined effort from Diana, Cassie, Asteria, Helen and Olga, Circe's spells are redirected on her, stripping her of her magic and godhood, including her ability to feed off evil. Instead of killing her, Diana hands her to Blake's team.

Weeks later, Cale, having witnessed the broadcast and realized her shortcomings and the damage she indirectly inflicted on the world, attempts to hide her evidence, but Diana reveals herself to the world, and continues watching over it with the help of Cassie and Helen, while Asteria returns to Themiscyra with Doris, hoping to cure her disease.

In mid-credit scenes, Diana and Hippolyta appear before the United Nations to reveal Themiscyra's existence and nature to the world, and Amanda Waller jokes with her superiors about recruiting Circe, Helen, Olga (unaware of the body swap), Chemico and Blizzard into Task Force X and sending them to Kahndaq to keep Black Adam in line; Carter Hall shoots her down, irritated, but Dr. Sivana, still incarcerated alongside Mister Mind, having witnessed the destruction of the body-swapping machine, decides to use Adam in their plan, and contacts his three children, Thaddeus Jr., Magnificus and Georgia.

Cast

 * Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
 * Chris Pine as Steve Trevor (flashbacks and archive footage from Wonder Woman 1984)
 * Saoirse Ronan as Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark/Wonder Girl, Diana's protégé and fellow superhero.
 * Tilda Swinton as Circe, an ancient, wicked sorceress and the daughter of Ares
 * Alexandra Daddario as Helen Alexandrios/Silver Swan, Asteria's half-Amazon daughter and a New York City Ballet dancer, part-time social worker aiding returning veterans, and former USAF pararescue woman who befriends Diana before being enslaved by Circe.
 * Joanna Lumley as Dr. Helena Sandsmark, Professor Chemico's former mentor, Diana's colleague at the Museum of Natural History, and Cassie's mother, who possesses the ability to temporarily deactivate Cassie's powers.
 * Jaimie Alexander as Queen Clea of Venturia, an Atlantean outpost, and previously one of Orm Marius' followers.
 * Lyna Khoudri as Olga/Dr. Doris Zuel/Giganta
 * David Thewlis as Ares, the god of war, Circe's father and Diana's half-brother (flashbacks)
 * Lynda Carter as Asteria
 * Connie Nielsen as Hippolyta
 * Robin Wright as Antiope (flashbacks)
 * Robert Redford as Minister Blizzard
 * Rachel Weisz as Dr. Veronica Cale, a scientist intent on discovering Wonder Woman's secrets.
 * Patrick Wilson as Orm Marius/Ocean Master (flashbacks and archive footage from Aquaman)
 * Mark Strong as Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (flashbacks and archive footage from Shazam!)
 * Anthony Mackie as Professor Chemico, a rival scientist to Dr. Cale, who is indirectly responsible for empowering Minister Blizzard.
 * Frank Grillo as Hugo Simmons, Professor Chemico's determined assistant.
 * Sebastian Stan as Thomas Blake, an undercover CIA agent working inside Dr. Cale's lab, and Cassie's step-brother.

Viola Davis makes an uncredited cameo appearance as Amanda Waller, reprising her role from the Suicide Squad films, in the film's mid-credit scene. Aldis Hodge, also uncredited, appears in the same scene, reprising his role as Carter Hall/Hawkman from Black Adam. Bradley Cooper makes an uncredited photographic appearance as James, Helen's late boyfriend and fellow USAF pararescueman, while Maximiliano Hernández, also uncredited, appears in the same photograph as Helen and James' commanding officer. Michael Douglas appears as US Senator Jason King, while Rachel House appears as Doris' original body.