Aug 06 2008
WWI: The Wonder Woman Movie
Oops. Wrong image. I meant to use this one:
In the tradition of Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: New Frontiers, and Batman: Gotham Knight, Warner Brothers proudly presents a straight-to-DVD rendition of the woman of wonder herself, Ms. Marv–I mean, Wonder Woman. So, maybe we won’t be seeing a Joss Whedon Wonder Woman movie. He’s overrated. So, maybe we just have to keep dreaming about Jessica Biel holding a golden lasso with her teeth. She’s too. . . um. . . you know. . . Oh, Jessica, why?! We want you! We need you! Jessica!
But bitter, long-lasting disappointments aside, this actually looks like a pretty decent movie. The animation is detailed enough, and Nathan Fillion and Rosario Dawson are set to lend their voices. Look for it in February of 2009 and hope that they don’t officially decide to cancel the live-action Justice League movie. There’s only so much insignificantly bad news I can take.
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Hum, hadn’t heard about this one. Will have to pick it up for my hubby.
It’s May 2009 and I haven’t heard a peep out of Hollywood on the status of the Wonder Woman project. Where are they in the process now? They need to consider the action, pacing, story threads, and humor of the new Star Trek film for Wonder Woman, since audiences these days want it all in their action flicks. Not too cerebral, not too preachy, not all action and no character development. The origin story is basically written, it just needs some Hollywood updating and tweaking to appeal to today’s special effects-savy audience. WB also needs to come to the realization that casting an unknown actress is going to give the character the boost it needs. Audiences will be going to see Wonder Woman, not Suzy Bigtime Actress AS Wonder Woman. That’s one of the reasons, I believe, that Electra and Catwoman flopped, among other things like bad writing and uncompelling acting.