Gal Gadot confirms Brett Ratner won’t be involved with Wonder Woman 2

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Two weeks after a Los Angeles Times report detailed multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment against director and producer Brett Ratner, the filmmaker seems to have been officially cut from the DC cinematic universe. This morning on Good Morning America, Gal Gadot reiterated earlier reports that Ratner’s financing company RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which helped fund 2017’s Wonder Woman, would not be involved with the upcoming sequel.

The confirmation comes a few days after a Page Six report claimed that Gadot threatened to drop out of the sequel if Ratner or his company was involved in any way. On Good Morning America, she says she didn’t come close to leaving. “The truth is, there’s so many people involved in making this movie — it’s not just me — and they all echoed the same sentiments,” she said.

Still, it’s unlikely Ratner’s company was ever going to be involved in the Wonder Womansequel anyway. Soon after the allegations against Ratner were made public, Warner Bros. swiftly cut ties with the filmmaker and his production company RatPac Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. At the time, Ratner released a statement in which he claimed he was “choosing to personally step away from all Warner Bros.-related activities.”

But the studio was also involved in a massive financing deal with RatPac and Dune Entertainment, which has been responsible for movies like the upcoming Justice League.Warner Bros. says it will continue working with RatPac-Dune until the deal expires in spring 2018, THR reports. That means it will cover films like Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, but will be defunct long before Wonder Woman 2’s release, which is currently set for a 2019 release.