There seems to be bad sentiment behind the scenes for Monolith Production’s upcoming Wonder Woman game.
As reported by The Gamer, Kinda Funny’s CEO, Greg Miller, claimed that he received word that the game was “in trouble.” Here was his full statement:
“In the past year – cause I’ll leave it ambiguous – I have talked to an insider, who was like, ‘This game’s troubled.’ That’s it, that’s all I’ll say. So I don’t hold out hope that it’s in a place to show something.”
It certainly sounds like Greg knows more about what’s going on, and has deliberately chosen to limit what he is sharing. At the very least, we should not expect to see a preview of the game this month.
The game was announced in 2021’s Summer Games Fest, but there’s really not much to gauge from that. We now know that it’s normal for AAA game development to take at least five years, and it isn’t unusual if it takes longer than that. So, if Monolith Productions did have a trailer ready, they still wouldn’t be expected to have the game ready anytime soon.
If there’s a story here, it doesn’t lie with Monolith Productions, but with their publisher, and the IP owner for Wonder Woman, Warner Discovery. Warner seems to be making poor decisions when it comes to all their projects. Famously, the company’s current president, David Zaslav, has made himself infamous for cancelling several announced and upcoming film projects, even after they had finished production. As of now, the public’s focus is on Coyote vs. Acme, but DC fans still remember the Batgirl movie.
On the video game front, fans aren’t happy about the release of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Rocksteady Studios’ pivot from their single player action game specialty, to live service, continues to falter, and even as fans are now convinced the studio will never be the same, nearly everyone sees the blame really going to their parent company WB Games, for pushing them in this direction in the first place.
Now, Monolith declared last year that Wonder Woman was not going to be a live service game. But since WB Games management has followed Zaslav’s lead in enthusiastically talking about live service, it is not unlikely that they have been pushing Monolith into that direction.
This game also happens to be one of the remaining projects that remain in production after WB decided to shift gears and reorganize their DC Studios efforts under new management. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has promised that the Wonder Woman game will get to stay untouched by this new direction, but once again, there may have been changes that occurred behind the scenes.
If there’s nothing to these rumors, hopefully, WB Games and / or Monolith can reassure us with a new statement again.
