The mall is the setting for an early heist scene, where Wonder Woman – whose day job is now at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in nearby Washington, D.C. – swings up and around three levels to take down a crew of jewelry-store robbers (whose plunder is no ordinary gem) and save a little girl.
“It’s just such a perfect location,” director Patty Jenkins says of Landmark, built in 1965 and operational until 2017. “And the fact that it was empty and we wouldn't be negotiating shutting down for hours, etc., we were blown away that we found it.”
Walking into the ground floor of what used to be a Macy’s, one soon encountered extras in teased hair and off-the-shoulder sweatshirts making their way into the mall proper for the big action scene.