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Wonder Woman 3 director Patty Jenkins ‘never walked away’, Rogue Squadron still alive
Patty Jenkins, the director of the two Wonder Woman movies starring Gal Gadot, has spoken out about the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 by Warner Bros. which was reported by The Hollywood Reporter last week.
Jenkins posted a statement to Twitter which asserted that she “never walked away” from the project. Jenkins was responding to a follow-up report from The Wrap which claimed that Jenkins had refused to rework her treatment for the film after producers had rejected it. The report said producers had invited her to pitch again, but she had quit rather than revise her ideas.
“This is simply not true,” Jenkins wrote in her statement. “I never walked away. I was open to considering anything asked of me. It was my understanding there was nothing I could do to move anything forward at this time.”
Jenkins laid the blame at the door of the corporate upheaval at Warner Bros., which is restructuring and slimming down production after its merger with Discovery as it also seeks to reorganise DC film and TV under the new DC Studios banner and its heads James Gunn and Peter Safran. “DC is obviously buried in changes they are having to make, so I understand these decisions are difficult right now,” she said.
Gunn offered tacit endorsement of Jenkins’ version of events. Replying to Jenkins’ tweet, he said, “I can attest that all of Peter and my interactions with you were only pleasant and professional.”
Jenkins also set the record straight on Rogue Squadron, the Star Wars film she was set to make before it was removed from Disney’s schedule. The movie remains in active development, she said, though it’s not a dead cert that it will be made.
Jenkins explained that she had originally left Rogue Squadron due to a scheduling clash with Wonder Woman 3, but that Lucasfilm had asked if she would come back and make it after the DC film, which she agreed to do.
“I originally left Rogue Squadron after a long and productive development process when it became clear it couldn’t happen soon enough and I did not want to delay WW3 any further,” she said. “When I did, Lucasfilm asked me to consider coming back to RS after WW3, which I was honored to do, so I agreed. They made a new deal with me. In fact, I am still on it and that project has been in active development ever since. I don’t know if it will happen or not. We never do until the development process is complete, but I look forward to its potential ahead.”
Presumably Rogue Squadron has an improved chance of getting back on track with Wonder Woman 3 no longer on Jenkins’ schedule.
In her statement, Jenkins paid tribute to Wonder Woman fans, as well as to Gadot and to Lynda Carter, the actress who portrayed the character on TV in the 1970s, and to the character of Wonder Woman herself. “Living in and around her values makes one a better person every day,” she said. “I wish her and her legacy an amazing future ahead, with or without me.”
Report: Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 Mic Drop Was Showing WB Execs Dictionary Definition of ‘Character Arc’
Wonder Woman 3 may not be happening, but it turns out that wasn’t down to Warner Bros.
According to The Wrap, writer and director Patty Jenkins “walked off” the project after her ideas for the film were met with skepticism.
An insider has claimed that Jenkins let Warner Bros. co-CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy “know that they were wrong, that they didn’t understand her, didn’t understand the character, didn’t understand character arcs and didn’t understand what Jenkins was trying to do.”
It apparently all came to a head when Jenkins sent an email to De Luca that ended with a link to the Wikipedia definition of “character arc.”
Jenkins directed both Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984 and was due to return to the franchise alongside its star Gal Gadot for Wonder Woman 3. But while she’s said to have submitted her treatment for the film just a few days ago, word quickly spread that the upcoming sequel had been canned.
Although the decision was said to have come under the new leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran, it turns out that they had nothing to do with the decision to reject Jenkins’ treatment – the incident that’s at the heart of her beef with Warner Bros. Instead, it was reportedly De Luca and Abdy who decided not to move forward with Jenkins’ version of the film.
It’s thought that the Warner Bros. executives felt it was the wrong direction for the franchise, and asked Jenkins if she would pitch another idea. Jenkins refused, instead choosing to exit the project entirely.
Apparently, Jenkins specifically didn’t want to hear what Gunn and Safran had to say about the project, despite them not being involved in the decision not to move forward with her treatment.
“She just doesn’t want to allow them to have a seat at the table to have an opinion on something new that she might come up with,” explained an insider.
At the moment, Gal Gadot is still attached to the Wonder Woman franchise, and a sequel hasn’t been completely ruled out. However, it looks as though any plans with Jenkins at the helm have gone out the window.
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Chicago Bears OT Teven Jenkins returns to practice, denies clashing with coaches
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears offensive tackle Teven Jenkins returned to training camp Saturday after missing seven straight practices with an undisclosed injury.
Jenkins, who is in a ramp up period, only participated in individual drills. The second-year lineman would not disclose specifics of his injury, including whether he got hurt during the team’s first practice July 27, whether he’s still dealing with back issues after undergoing surgery last offseason and what he’s currently recovering from, but estimated that he should be at 100% full health in “a couple of days.”
“It feels really good and I’m not having any discomfort right now, so it’s really good,” Jenkins said after going through Saturday’s practice. “If I had to give myself a percent, probably around 90% and it’s just about working my body back into the feeling of football back again and getting back to that 100% of ‘this is football’ and get ready to go.”
Jenkins said he’s been in the training room for the last nine days and that his prolonged absence was for “the betterment of my health.”
His absence was particularly noticeable at Halas Hall amid trade rumors involving the second-round pick. Earlier in the week, Jenkins replied to a fan on Twitter concerned about his whereabouts to “not believe everything you read” in light of reports of mutual malcontent between the player and the franchise.
“Just one thing, mainly, that I was clashing with coaches,” Jenkins said. “That was totally not true, and I just wanted to tell everybody that you don’t have to believe everything that somebody says. It’s just how it is.”
Throughout the first week and a half of practice, coach Matt Eberflus declined to address specifics of Jenkins’ absence and classified the tackle as “day-to-day.” Offensive coordinator Luke Getsy said Friday that Jenkins has been present during team meetings and “all in.”
Both Getsy and Eberflus maintain that Jenkins is in competition for a starting spot on the offensive line and have relayed that message to the lineman.
“Really, the same as everybody: ‘Go out there and compete. Everything’s open. Dive in,'” Eberflus said. “Like we’ve said, he’s been great in meetings. He’s been very attentive. He’s been paying attention. He’s been back up at the walk-throughs looking at the plays and understanding his role and the plays. So he’s been good.”
Jenkins was drafted 39th overall in 2021 by former Bears general manager Ryan Pace. After undergoing back surgery before his rookie season, Jenkins was limited to 157 snaps at left tackle last season.
Jenkins said he believes in the Bears organization and expects to be with the team during the regular season. “For me myself, I’m a loyal type of guy,” Jenkins said. “The Chicago Bears, they drafted me so I’m going to stay with the Chicago Bears until whenever it is.”
Jenkins was supplanted at left tackle by rookie fifth rounder Braxton Jones during OTAs and was moved to right tackle with the second team. On the first day of training camp, Jenkins got reps as a swing tackle and said he’s willing to explore a move to guard.
“I’m willing to play wherever they want me,” Jenkins said. “I want to be here in Chicago so I’m playing wherever they need me to play.”
Jenkins’ return came on a day where Chicago finished its ninth practice of training camp down three of its top four wide receivers.
N’Keal Harry sustained a left ankle/foot injury during the first play of team drills and had to be helped off the field by teammates and trainers.
“I just saw him come down,” Eberflus said. “I saw the play and I don’t really know much from there. We’re obviously going to do the evaluation and then once I get that, we can get it back to you. And if it’s longer situation, we’ll let you know what it is. If it’s day-by-day, we’ll say that, too.”
Byron Pringle and rookie Velus Jones Jr. were also non-participants on Saturday. Pringle, one of the Bears’ top free agent signings, has a quad injury, according to Eberflus, and has no timetable for a return, though the team is optimistic his injury will not keep him out for the regular season.
“No., I don’t think so. I don’t think so,” Eberflus said. “It’s longer than day-to-day, so that’s all I can say, but no real timetable to return. But we’re hopeful that it’s a good situation for us.”
Jones Jr. is “day-to-day,” according to Eberflus, who addressed concerns over the team’s wide receiver depth after being without three players in line for the No. 2 and No. 3 wide receiver roles.
“Yeah, you’re always concerned about that,” Eberflus said. “You know, during camp when you have this 90-man roster and guys go down with a soft-tissue stuff or whatever it might be, you put workloads on other guys. And those other guys have opportunity. They have more reps, so you have to be mindful of that. And we were. We’re mindful of that.”
Brooke Jenkins replacing ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin
SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of San Francisco appointed an outspoken critic of ousted District Attorney Chesa Boudin as his replacement, saying that her pick was the right person to pursue criminal justice reform while holding offenders to account.
Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced that Brooke Jenkins will be the next district attorney after voters in the famously liberal city kicked out the politically progressive Boudin in a special recall election last month. She will be sworn into office Friday.
Jenkins, who quit Boudin’s office in 2021 to volunteer for the recall, is both Black and Latina. She will be San Francisco’s first Latina district attorney. Vice President Kamala Harris was the city’s first Black DA.
“We are a city of second chances. But the truth is we have to draw a line with people who choose hate, violence and a life of crime,” said Jenkins at a press conference announcing her appointment. “I want to make clear: holding offenders accountable does not preclude us from moving forward with vital and important reforms to our criminal justice system.”
Boudin, a former public defender elected in 2019, was ousted in a June 7 recall election fueled by frustration over public safety in the deeply Democratic city. Viral video footage of people shoplifting and attacking seniors, particularly Asian Americans, rattled residents.
Breed said she picked Jenkins for her experience, sense of fairness and compassion toward both victims and offenders. The mayor did not disclose how she voted in the recall, but clashed with Boudin over enforcement.
“She sacrificed her career to fight for people in this city, to fight for victims who needed a voice in the city,” Breed said.
Jenkins, who also considers herself a progressive prosecutor, said during the campaign that Boudin was too rigid. He eliminated cash bail for defendants and declared that minors would not be tried as adults, no matter how serious the crime. Jenkins said she would like those tools available for prosecutors to use at their discretion.
In an interview with The Associated Press before the election, Jenkins said that being a progressive prosecutor meant being “innovative about finding alternatives to incarceration, but trying to ensure our defendants don’t reoffend.”
Boudin, who has not ruled out running again for district attorney, said his time in office was hobbled by a pandemic that shuttered courts and the intensive treatment and counseling programs relied on to rehabilitate offenders.
Jenkins joined the San Francisco district attorney’s office in 2014.
She said she plans to run in November to serve the rest of Boudin’s term through 2023.
Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant likely out Game 4, coach Taylor Jenkins says
SAN FRANCISCO — Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant is likely to miss Game 4 on Monday with a knee injury, head coach Taylor Jenkins said on Sunday.
“He’s got further evaluation going on,” Jenkins said on Sunday. “But from what I have been told, there is probably a really good chance he doesn’t play tomorrow.”
The Grizzlies did not immediately detail the exact nature of Morant’s knee injury. But the Grizzlies believe it was caused by a play in which Jordan Poole grabbed Morant’s knee while going for a basketball on a trap near half court in the fourth quarter of Game 3.
The NBA will not take any disciplinary action on Poole, a source told ESPN. Jenkins said Memphis executive vice president of basketball operations/general manager Zach Kleiman had been in touch with the league concerning the play.
“Just trying to be matter-of-fact here,” Jenkins said when asked about what he thought about the play after further review. “This is what Ja says, this is what our medical team has said after reviewing the play. Ja was playing great, feeling great all game, and the grab of the knee is what triggered the potential injury and why we took Ja out of the game.
“Nothing has changed from there in terms of that was the play that triggered this.”
Morant left Chase Center on Saturday night without talking to reporters. But he initially tweeted “broke the code,” with video of Poole grabbing Morant’s knee on the fourth-quarter play, before later deleting the tweet.
Morant could be seen walking with a limp toward the team bus following Memphis’ 142-112 loss.
Poole said he was not trying to intentionally hurt Morant. He and Andrew Wiggins trapped Morant near half court before Wiggins was called for a foul with 6:55 left in the game. Morant subbed out with 6:19 left and the Warriors up by 17 before walking back to the locker room with a limp.
“It was a basketball play when we doubled him,” Poole said on Saturday. “And I hit the ball, and I was going for the ball. I mean, obviously, you don’t want to see anybody get hurt. I’m not even that type of player. I respect everybody.”
The Grizzlies went 20-5 this season without Morant, who missed nine straight games in March and April because of right knee soreness during the regular season.
“Ja’s spirits are good,” said point guard Tyus Jones, who will start if Morant is unable to play. “Obviously he’s frustrated. Anytime you are hurt or banged up, you’re frustrated. [But] his spirits are good. He still obviously putting everything into healing up and trying to get better and trying to be out there with us trying compete and fight.”
Jones added that while he thought the play in question involving Poole was “an interesting play,” he said he did not think anyone was trying to hurt anyone on the floor.
“I don’t think Poole or anybody in this series for that matter is necessarily a dirty player,” Jones said. “But it was just an interesting play. That is all I can really say on that. It was not a normal play that normally happens but I don’t think he was trying to injure 12 by any means.”
The Grizzlies will have Dillon Brooks back for Game 4 after the wing served a one-game suspension in Game 3 for his flagrant foul 2 in the opening minutes of Game 2 that resulted in Gary Payton II suffering a fractured elbow. An irate Steve Kerr said Brooks “broke the code” for that flagrant foul, in which he hit Payton in the head while the Warriors point guard was in the air going up for a transition layup.
Now the Grizzlies, down 2-1, could be without their star point guard in Game 4.
“When he was on the court, you saw how dominant he was and how much we relied on him,” power forward Xavier Tillman said. “So when he is not on the court, it is now to show him like, ‘we got you.’ Obviously it’s an unfortunate situation to happen, but now we got your back, we are going to hold it down until you are ready to go.”
Virginia Pilot reporter Sierra Jenkins dead after shooting outside Norfolk bar
A Virginian-Pilot reporter was one of two people killed in a shooting outside a Virginia bar early Saturday morning.
Journalist Sierra Jenkins, 25, was killed just when she was caught in the crossfire outside of an eatery and bar on downtown Norfolk’s Granby Street, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
According to the Pilot, Saturday would have been Jenkins’ shift to cover breaking news for the newspaper. When her editor called her to ask her to cover the shooting, she couldn’t be reached.
Jenkins had been at Chicho’s Pizza Backstage with her friend as the restaurant was closing when an argument began outside, leading to the shooting, her family told the Pilot.
She was struck in the gunfight and later pronounced dead at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, according to the paper.
A total of five people were shot, including 25-year-old Devon M. Harris of Portsmouth, who also died from his wounds, according to the Norfolk Police Department. Three others were hospitalized, with one having life-threatening injuries, cops said.
No arrests have been made in the shooting as of early Sunday morning.
The oldest of three siblings, Jenkins had just celebrated her 25th birthday less than a week ago, on March 13. She had just moved into her first apartment in Virginia Beach about a month ago, reports said.
Jenkins’ father, Maurice Jenkins of Virginia Beach, told the Pilot that his daughter was a caring, hardworking woman who loved working as a journalist.
“Everyone loved her,” Maurice Jenkins said. “She was such an energetic, caring and giving person. A real go-getter. She’d do anything for anyone.”
Jenkins said his daughter was not much of the “going-out kind,” but decided to go out Friday night because a longtime friend from middle school was in town.
Restaurant manager Rory Schindel told the paper that around 180 people were in the bar when bartenders announced last call and turned on the lights around 1:30 a.m. as patrons began leaving.
Schindel said he remembered seeing Jenkins and her friends before the shooting.
“They were a nice group,” he said. “They took good care of our bartenders and our bartenders took good care of them.”
The manager said he doesn’t believe the shooter ever brought the gun inside the restaurant, as security requires all customers to be patted down before entering.
Kris Worrell, editor-in-chief of Virginia Media, called Jenkins a passionate journalist and “a bright and talented woman with so much going for her.”
“Sierra was funny and energetic and full of enthusiasm. We are absolutely heartbroken,” Worrell said.
Jenkins, a Norfolk native, graduated from Granby High School before she received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia State in 2019, the Pilot reported. She had previously worked as an intern at Atlanta Magazine and CNN before joining The Pilot in December 2020, where she covered education.
Virginian-Pilot reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins killed in shooting
She was 25.
Officers responded to the scene in downtown Norfolk around 2 a.m. and found Jenkins and two men with life-threatening gunshot wounds. One of the men, 25-year-old Devon M. Harris, was pronounced dead on scene, and the second was transported to the hospital, police said in a news release.
Two more men found by police at the scene with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds were also taken to the hospital for treatment, according to police.
Jenkins was “a bright and talented woman with so much promise,” said Virginian-Pilot editor-in-chief Kris Worrell. “Her passion for journalism was undeniable and our community is better because of her reporting. She brought both energy and empathy to her work as an education reporter.”
“To have the life of such a talented young person cut short is devastating,” Worrell added. “Our thoughts are with Sierra’s family and all those who knew and loved her. We are absolutely heartbroken.”
After hearing about the shooting, a newspaper editor attempted to contact Jenkins, who was on a breaking news shift Saturday morning, but couldn’t reach her, Worrell told CNN.
“When he didn’t hear back, we called in another reporter,” Worrell said. “In reporting the story of the shooting, we discovered that Sierra was one of the victims.”
Jenkins had also been an editorial research intern with CNN for three months in summer 2020, and a news assistant with CNN Health from September to December 2020. She began her job at the Virginian-Pilot shortly after as a breaking news reporter. Jenkins had recently been reporting on school policies and issues across the region, the newspaper said on Facebook.
She had also previously worked as an editorial researcher at Atlanta Magazine.
Both Virginia’s governor and Norfolk’s commonwealth’s attorney expressed their condolences to the families of the victims on Saturday.
“Locally, we will do our utmost to seek justice and accountability with the laws we have, but the solutions to gun violence start with good personal choices and sensible reforms to our national and state laws to keep guns out of the hands of bad actors. We must come together,” Ramin Fatehi, Norfolk commonwealth’s attorney said on Twitter.
Authorities say they’re continuing to investigate the shooting and are asking the public to come forward with any information.
Night Country—Issa López and Barry Jenkins taking over
It’s been more than three years now since HBO rolled out a new season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto’s once-zeitgeist-seizing true crime anthology. And while we may be 8 years distant now from ubiquitous “time is a flat circle” jokes, breathless appreciations for bravura tracking shots, and fevered attempts to tie the franchise into the Cthulhu mythos, the series maintains a certain mystique—not least of which because of the work Mahershala Ali and his cohorts did on the show’s inconsistent, but interesting, third outing back in 2019
Now it sounds like the series might be coming back, with one of Ali’s old collaborators at the helm. Deadline reports that HBO is apparently gearing up for a revival, or possible spin-off, of the series—supposedly titled True Detective: Night Country—that’ll be headed up by Tigers Are Not Afraid writer/director Issa López and Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins.
Details about the series are being kept under wraps, although HBO president Carey Bloys did hint recently that the network might be trying to get back into the “grim meditations on time, memory, loss, etc. through the lens of detective work” game. Per Deadline, López will write, direct, and produce the show’s pilot, while Jenkins will serve as an executive producer. (The Oscar-winner has been working a bit in TV of late; he was nominated for an Emmy for his recent The Underground Railroad.)
López has been an established novelist and filmmaker in Mexico for years now, although she’s just started to break into American markets through films like 2019’s Tigers. Given what a career-boosting effect earlier True Detective seasons have sometimes had for creators—and how divisive responses to the series have been across its various eras—it’ll be interesting to see what reception she’s greeted with here.
No word yet on what involvement, if any, Pizzolatto will have with the series. He most recently penned the screenplay for 2021 Jake Gyllenhaal feature The Guilty.
Bears rookie OT Teven Jenkins to undergo back surgery; Justin Fields dealing with groin issue
The Chicago Bears’ top two draft picks are dealing with injuries. One is much more serious than the other.
Coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday that first-round quarterback Justin Fields would be “pulled back” in practice today as he deals with a groin issue. Nagy noted that the team would be “extremely conservative” with Fields, but the plan is to get him ready for Saturday’s preseason game versus the Buffalo Bills.
“He was a little sore, and Justin is the last one that’s gonna tell you that’s an excuse,” Nagy said. “He’s not going to use that excuse. He was pissed off with some of the throws and just the way in general yesterday we were all a little bit, I didn’t think offensively we had a very good day. We were able to watch the film last night, go through it and correct it and see why and stuff. For us, we’ve got to be smart. We want to be smart, and it doesn’t make sense right now to push the limits with him and take a chance of making it more sore.”
Nagy didn’t sound too concerned about Fields’ groin issue, particularly given the plan is for the rookie to play Saturday. If team doctors were worried it’d be a lingering issue, there is no way the Bears would put him on the field for a preseason game.
On the flip side, second-round offensive tackle Teven Jenkins will undergo back surgery, Nagy announced.
“The goal is to get him back this season,” Nagy said.
Jenkins hadn’t participated in any training camp practice while dealing with the injury.
Viewed as a first-round talent, Jenkins slipped into the second round, where the Bears traded up to snag the Oklahoma State product. Chicago brass has said throughout the process that they were aware of Jenkins’ back issues in college, which presumably led to his draft-day fall.
“We were aware of the back issues in college, but these symptoms are new,” Nagy noted.
New symptoms are concerning, particularly when it comes to back injuries for offensive tackles.