Wonder Woman

[WIL]

Joss Whedon is not doing "Wonder Woman" now WTF...

On Thursday, it was announced that Warner Brothers had purchased a brand new WWII period script for Wonder Woman from newcomers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland. At the time, it was very strange. Joss Whedon, for the last couple of years had been talking about directing his own Wonder Woman script for WB.

Well things have become a little clearer today. Whedon has posted a statement on his blog citing that he won’t be making a Wonder Woman movie which would indicate that WB have decided to go with the new script as a basis for a movie, with the hunt for a new director under way.

Some excerpts from Whedon’s statement…

“I’m no longer slated to make Wonder Woman….Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that’s never gonna work…

….Everybody knows how long I was taking, what a struggle that script was, and though I felt good about what I was coming up with, it was never gonna be a simple slam-dunk. I like to think it rolled around the rim a little bit, but others may have differing views”.

Did Whedon every have an actress cast for Wonder Women?

I never have to answer THAT question again!!!! And you don’t have to link to every rumor site! Finally and forever: I never had an actress picked out, or even a consistant front-runner. I didn’t have time to waste on casting when I was so busy air-balling on the script.

So what’s next for Whedon?

“There is that “Goners” movie I can finally finish polishing, and plenty of other things in the hopper I’ve wanted to pursue. I’m as relieved as I am disappointed, and both of those things lead to drink, so that’s a plus. Truly, you may be hearing some interesting things brewing in the coming months. But all potential jets therein will be visible”.

Not that I cared much for a Wonder Woman movie, it’s hard to believe they will find a better guy to bring the female superhero to the big screen. If you are a Wonder Woman fan, then at least you should take some encouragement that the project may now begin to start moving sometime soon and the idea of doing a “period WWII movie” rather than a present day Wonder Woman also makes things very interesting indeed.

In fact if I had the choice I think I would rather see Whedon direct his Goners movie over Wonder Woman. In an interview with Suicidegirls.com a while back, this is how he described the project…

“It is a fantasy thriller, it is pretty dark and it’s all me. So people will pretty much know what that means if they look at my body of work. But it’s a new universe set in the present day with a new concept for me and a new bunch of characters. It’s been a long time since I got to do that, so that’s really fun”.

You all know how much of a Buffy nut I am and this sounds like potentially the best thing he has done since then (didn’t care much for his Firefly universe).

It would be nice too if one of those “irons in the fire” was something set in the Buffy universe!

[Johnny Truant]

[murderpunk]

Wonder Woman vs Nazis..    as if trying to make a good Wonder Woman movie wouldn't be hard enough already. wtf are they thinking?!

[murderpunk]

casting is the most and only important thing on this. i think the only good Wonder Woman would be Jennifer Connely (if people aren't sick of her yet, cause i almost am) her "classic/genaric beauty" and big tits have always made her a good choice for comic book movies. she's just not very tough.. but there's not many hot tough girls. Lindsey Lohan.. um.. no. Mila? too old. Eliza Dushku perhaps? no that's Wigger Woman. and maybe it's just me but i never thought Kristanna Loken was remotely hot. Monica Bellucci might not be too bad if she can lose the accent.. Considering Lynda Carter was perfect though, who cares about tough anyway.. lesbians don't like Wonder Woman, perverted guys do.

then they really need to scrap the actual Nazis and go for an abiguous Nazi-esque villain organazation if need be. seems they might be putting too much damn thought into this movie. cause i mean seriously.. everyone loves Wonder Woman because she's hot.. but who the fuck actually reads the comicbooks? nobody, because they really really suck ass. hot chick jiggling in a skimpy costume.. it's not rocket science

[WIL]

I just lost all interest once Joss was out, but yeah who they cast is important.

[Johnny Truant]

Morena Bacon or whatever her name is from Firefly would be a good Wonder Woman.

[murderpunk]

she's mexican though? 

[Johnny Truant]

Ack I never really noticed it before you said something, she does have spanish features.  But she'd make a good WW I think if she got all bad ass with it.

[WIL]

Or How About....

[Johnny Truant]

Micheal Jackson or Jesus....that is a tough decision!

[murderpunk]

yea she looked whiter on Stargate and Wonder Woman was "off-white" anyway so that Morena chick could pull it off.. or maybe the guy from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 

[murderpunk]

it turns out they only bought that Wonder Woman during WW2 script so they could make sure it WOULDN'T ever get used. and to perhaps use a couple of ideas from it. at least that's what Joel Silver said to someone, sometime, somewhere.