Win 1 of 3 Wonder Woman Hampers worth more than R1800!

Published May 26, 2017

Wonder Woman fans, listen up! We’ve once again teamed up with the friendly folks of Times Media Films/Warner Brother to bring you another EPIC competition. You can win the below, and all you need to do to be eligible is enter via the Gleam widget below. Simple right?

Beach Ball

Selfie Button Clip

Beach Towel

Sunglasses

Computer Stickers

Tank Top

Men’s T-shirt

Woman’s Jacket

Steve Trevor POP Vinyl Figure

Hippolyta POP Vinyl Figure

Gold Foil Tattoo Set

Lapel Pin

Metallic Lace Strap

Round Fanny Pack

1 Double Ticket to watch Wonder Woman for you and a friend (Nu Metro)

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Win 1 of 3 Wonder Woman Hampers worth more than R1800!

Good luck Nodians!

Here are some interesting facts for you guys about the history and production of Wonder Woman

Enduring global icon of power, grace, wisdom and wonder, born on the pages of DC Comics and brought to life by Gal Gadot in Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman .

1 st Ever standalone Wonder Woman feature film in the legendary Super Hero’s 75-year history, and the first female-led cinematic adventure of the modern superhero era.

Godkiller – the divine sword gifted by Zeus to the Amazons, which can only be wielded by the fiercest among them.

2 Iterations of Wonder Woman’s iconic costume, originally created for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by costume designer Michael Wilkinson; and refined for Wonder Woman by Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming .

2 nd Film in which Gal Gadot stars as Diana, aka Wonder Woman, whose debut in Batman v Superman set the stage for her epic origins to finally be told on the big screen in Wonder Woman.

3 Pop culture icons portrayed by Chris Pine: Star Trek ’s Capt. James T. Kirk; Jack Ryan, in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ; and Wonder Woman ’s Captain Steve Trevor, an American intelligence officer who crash-lands in the waters off Themyscira, bringing mankind’s war to Diana’s mythic island home, and becoming Diana’s partner in heroics.

3 Ruffians—a “liar, a murderer and a smuggler”—whom Steve enlists to help Diana reach the frontlines of the war to end all wars in her quest to protect humanity from Ares— top undercover man Sameer (Saïd Taghmaoui), Scottish sniper Charlie (Ewen Bremner), and accomplished Native American smuggler The Chief (Eugene Brave Rock).

5 Finalists drawn from hundreds of actors who originally auditioned for the role of Wonder Woman / Diana in Batman v Superman , and only one who embodied her innate power and compassionate spirit: Gal Gadot.

5 Sets of Wonder Woman’s armor, crafted for the film from a material that looks ancient but is flexible enough for stunts, complete with expansion joints on the breastplate.

5 Key weapons and accessories brandished by Wonder Woman: the Lasso of Hestia , which compels anyone in its grip to speak the truth; enchanted, bullet-deflecting wrist Gauntlets ; the unbreakable sword Godkiller ; a Shield that protects and defends; and Diana’s iconic and treasured Headband .

6 Months spent by more than 30 actors in an intensive boot camp led by trainer Mark Twight, to transform them into Amazon warriors.

6 Age at which producer Richard Suckle first watched Wonder Woman—embodied by Lynda Carter in action in the classic 1970s series of the same name, which debuted on American television in 1975 and aired for two more years as The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.

7 Professional athletes/fitness experts cast in Wonder Woman as Amazon warriors: American champion boxer Ann Wolfe; Canadian Wushu medalist Samantha Jo; UK pentathlete Jenny Pacey; Swedish Thai boxer/MMA fighter Madeleine Vall; British fitness expert Zoe Shelley; and American CrossFit champion Brooke Ence.

8 Age at which we meet Diana, played by newcomer Lilly Aspell, the only child on the Amazons’ isolated home world of Themyscira, who yearns to be a great warrior against the wishes of her protective mother, Queen Hippolyta.

~8 th Century BCE: Fabled era of the Amazons – the mythic tribe of warrior women whose ferocity in battle was first immortalized by Homer in his foundational epic poem The Iliad and whose legend would later inspire the creation of Diana, aka Wonder Woman.

#8 Issue of All Star Comics, which hit stands in October 1941 and gave Batman and Superman fans their first glimpse of a new kind of Super Hero, one whose power and strength is matched by her compassion: Wonder Woman, dreamed up by William Moulton Marston, under the pen name Charles Moulton, with the support of his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and memorably drawn by Harry G. Peter.

9 Months during which Gal Gadot trained with cast physical trainer Ruda Vrba and stunt coordinator Damon Caro to perfect the effortless power, endurance and grace of Wonder Woman.

9 Films on which producing partners Deborah Snyder and Zack Snyder have collaborated over the past decade—from Zack Snyder’s blockbuster 300 in 2006, to Patty Jenkins’s highly anticipated Wonder Woman in 2017 .

10 Million fans voraciously reading Wonder Woman in comics in 1944, across four titles: Wonder Woman, Sensation, Comic Cavalcade and All Star Comics , the latter also featuring the superhero team, Justice Society of America.

12 Years through which producer Charles Roven helped bring iconic DC Super Heroes to the big screen across seven films—from Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins in 2005 through Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman in 2017.

15 Years of Shotokan Karate practiced by Spanish actress Elena Anaya, the film’s Dr. Maru, aka Doctor Poison, a chemist working with Ludendorff (Danny Huston) to develop a mysterious weapon of mass destruction.

20 Age at which Robin Wright, the film’s fierce Antiope – who secretly trains her niece Diana to prepare her to face the Amazons’ ultimate adversary – landed her breakout role as the title character in the beloved cinematic fable The Princess Bride .

38 Locations spanning two countries—the UK and Italy—where Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins swept cast and crew to capture the film’s action and drama against authentic backdrops in Italy’s Amalfi Coast, Happy Village, Matera, and Castel del Monte; and the UK’s Victoria House, Australia House, Sicilian Avenue, British Museum and Tilbury Fort.

42 Years spent on or behind the camera by Danny Huston – who creates a formidable villain in Ludendorff, the duplicitous general bent on sabotaging peace negotiations in favor of perpetual war – carrying on the cinema legacy of his grandfather, noted actor Walter Huston, and father, legendary director John Huston.

48 Sparks—the firing system of Wonder Woman’s shields, specially designed and made from carbon fiber Kevlar by SFX supervisor Mike Holt and his team.

75 th Anniversary of the world’s best known and most popular female Super Hero and an enduring symbol of equality, power and truth, celebrated during Wonder Woman’s first solo feature film.

100 Gas masks, designed and hand-built by Wonder Woman property master Terry Wood and his team for use in sequences set at Dr. Maru’s laboratory and munitions factory.

~700 BCE—year that Ares, the mythical god of war and son of Zeus, was described in the Greek poet Hesiod ’s Theogony as “shield-piercing” and “city-sacking” – the embodiment of war’s destruction and brutality.

1851 Patent year of the antique photography process wet-collodion, utilized to create the “antique” photograph first glimpsed in Batman v Superman , which foreshadows Wonder Woman’s journey with Steve Trevor and his band of rebels in pursuit of the adversary she is destined to fight: Ares.

1856 Birth year of artist John Singer Sargent, whose modern sensibility and graphic sense of color and lighting formed a key inspiration for the mise-en-scène of Wonder Woman .

1909 Establishment year of Selfridges, the UK’s largest department store, where Steve Trevor’s cheery assistant Etta Candy, played by Lucy Davis, helps Diana pull off the impossible – an outfit that will be both battle-ready and acceptable for a woman in Edwardian society.

1915 Year Harvard-trained psychologist, attorney, inventor, columnist and Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston developed the systolic blood pressure test to detect truthfulness or deception – an inspiration for Diana’s Lasso of Hestia and progenitor to the modern polygraph, or lie detector test.

1918 Year in which the epic adventure at the heart of Wonder Woman unfolds, as Diana and Steve Trevor join forces to prevent an endless war in which millions more will die.

1941 Year All Star Comics, Vol. 1, #8, introduced not only Wonder Woman but also her mother, the wise and powerful Queen Hippolyta, inspired by her namesake in Greek mythology and brought to life in the film by Connie Nielsen.

1942 Publication year of Wonder Woman #1 , the groundbreaking Super Hero’s own comic book series, which has not been out of print in the seven decades since. That year also saw the first appearance of Etta Candy, hilariously embodied in the film by Lucy Davis, on the pages of Sensation Comics #2 .

1960 Year Wonder Woman’s role as a founding member of the Justice League was revealed in flashback on the pages of The Brave and the Bold #28, written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Mike Sekowsky, when she joins forces with Superman, Batman, Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter to fend off an alien attack.

1972 Year the first issue of the now-legendary feminist magazine Ms., edited by Gloria Steinem, hit newsstands with a larger-than-life Wonder Woman on its cover under the headline “Wonder Woman for President,” sparking the character’s return to her independent roots and her resurgence among a new generation of fans.

1970s Era in which the Wonder Woman TV series and Super Friends cartoon enthralled a child named Patty Jenkins, inspiring her dream to direct the global icon’s first stand-alone feature film.

2000 Crew members enlisted by the Wonder Woman production to accomplish the film’s most elaborate and epic set pieces.

2000 Year-old burial mounds unearthed in the early 1990s by a joint U.S.-Russian archaeology team at a remote Russian outpost in the southern Ural Steppes near the Kazakhstan border, revealing 150 graves of warrior women—the first evidence of an ancient people who may have inspired the Amazon myths.

2004 Year Gal Gadot represented her home country, Israel, at the Miss Universe pageant. Gadot also served two years of enlisted service in the Israel Defense Forces.

2017 Year that Connie Nielsen, the film’s Queen Hippolyta, was awarded the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award for her work with the Human Needs Project, a non-profit she established that provides clean water, infrastructure and empowerment services to residents of Kibera, Kenya.

16,000 Pounds—weight of the 73’ Hydrascope Telescopic Crane, the first of its kind in the UK and one of five in the world—which Wonder Woman director of photography Matthew Jensen and team utilized to capture a number of the film’s exhilarating action sequences.

6-2-17 Date Wonder Woman lands in cinemas across the globe when the film is released in IMAX, 3D and 2D theaters worldwide, from Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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