She continued: “I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be. There is no right and wrong kind of powerful woman.

“And the massive female audience who made the film [the] hit it is, can surely choose and judge their own icons of progress.”

Wonder Woman has largely been praised by critics, hailed as “a masterpiece of subversive feminism” by some, though others believe it’s “not the feminist fantasy we’ve been told it is”.

It became the highest-grossing live-action film to be directed by a woman (replacing Mamma Mia!, which was directed by Phyllida Lloyd) with more than $800 million so far (approximately £620m) and broke records by raking in millions over its opening weekend in June.

The sequel will be in cinemas December 2019, with both Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot already signed on.

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Patty Jenkins claps back at Titanic director’s Wonder Woman criticism