Okay, so we might be manifesting a little. But the rumors swirling around Adria Arjona possibly donning the golden lasso aren’t just fan-casting dreams anymore. They have a real quote from James Gunn attached to them now, and the internet noticed.

Here’s how it all started, what Gunn actually said, and why a Latina Wonder Woman would be iconic. Again.

James Gunn follows Adria Arjona on Instagram and sparks the internet’s curiosity

It all kicked off with a seemingly innocent social media follow.

According to Deadline, fans spotted that DC Studios co-head James Gunn followed Adria Arjona on Instagram. That alone was enough to ignite fan theories that she might be in the running to play Wonder Woman in Gunn’s revamped DC Universe.

But when Gunn was asked about the speculation in a new interview with Extra, he didn’t exactly shut it down. “I follow Adria on Instagram but everybody came out [and said], ‘He just followed her, that means she’s Wonder Woman,’” Gunn explained.

Then he added, “She’d be a great Wonder Woman, by the way.”

Fans barely needed more than that to start running with the idea.

Adria Arjona and James Gunn go way back

It turns out this isn’t a new connection.

“She was in a movie that I made seven years ago,” Gunn said in the same interview. “We’ve been friends and have known each other since that time. I followed her then, I didn’t just follow her.”

That film was 2016’s The Belko Experiment, directed by Greg McLean and written by Gunn. Adria Arjona starred in it, and according to Variety, the movie was also produced by Gunn and his current DC Studios partner Peter Safran.

Their working relationship clearly left a strong impression. In an earlier interview with CinemaBlend from April, Adria Arjona herself spoke about her admiration for Gunn.

“I love James Gunn,” she said. “He gave me my first movie ever, which was like my first studio movie, so I owe him a lot.”

When asked if his social media activity meant anything, she smiled and said, “I don’t know,” while crossing her fingers.

Honestly, same.

Wonder Woman is already being reimagined, and the timing kind of lines up

This isn’t just speculation floating in a vacuum.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, Gunn confirmed that a new Wonder Woman feature film is currently in development. He shared that it’s “being written right now,” and will exist alongside an HBO series set in Themyscira, Wonder Woman’s mythical home. “The TV project is slow moving, but it’s moving,” Gunn said.

In other words, the casting conversation is definitely happening. The timing of these interviews and social media activity doesn’t feel entirely coincidental.

Adria Arjona as Wonder Woman would be that moment

A new Wonder Woman means following in the very big, very golden boots of Gal Gadot. Gadot debuted as Diana Prince in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and reprised the role in Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and cameo appearances in both Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash in 2023.

But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from Wonder Woman’s decades-long evolution—from Lynda Carter in the 1970s to animated voice work by Rosario Dawson and Lucy Lawless—it’s that the character can be reinterpreted across generations and still feel timeless.

As People noted in a 2023 feature, “She’s easily the most famous female superhero of all time, and she’s doing it on her own.”

Adria Arjona’s name entering the conversation feels like the beginning of something new.

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