We start off in Ancient Greece setting up Antiope, Circe and Hippolyta as the Amazon rulers guarding a great treasure. They are betrayed by men, Antiope throws herself off a rock, Circe tries to take advantage and helps to betray the Amazons while Hippolyta is left to pick up the pieces. The Gods decide to make them immortal on paradise island, isolated from the world to guard the treasure (or what's left of it) Flash forward a few thousand years, Girl is born from clay, yadda, yadda, she's near perfect, no challenges left on the island etc ... Steve Trevor crashes on the island and they have to get him back. Afraid of the outside world, the Amazons set up a challenge, Diana wins and takes Trevor back. Cue the fish out of water scenes. Meanwhile the treasure on Themiscyra is stolen. Setup the story's main villain, introduce incidental side-character Barbara Minerva (she'll be Cheetah in the next movie) and reveal the real villain : Circe. Diana then has to save the day, gets the treasure back, spites Circe, Minerva is hinted at as the Cheetah. Bonus, Antiope did survive and we can have the Bana-Mighdal Amazons in a future sequel. Also a nice bit where a feisty-teenager redhead inspired by Diana beats up several guys trying to molest her (Artemis) ...
The villain can be anything from Maxwell Lord to just another random character made up for the purpose of the film.
The treasure you ask ? Relics of the Titans, well of souls, something that should not fall in the wrong hands, but does anyway ...
That should be more than adequate for a standard Hollywood production I guess.
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