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Joss Whedon to Write/Direct Wonder Woman
bigbear writes "'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Firefly' creator Joss Whedon has signed on to write and direct the big screen adaptation of the DC Comics character Wonder Woman. The film is being produced by Joel Sliver ('The Matrix'). No word yet on who will play the "iconic female heroine of our time.""
Wonder Woman will be played by Charisma Carpenter, aka Cordelia Chase on Buffy and Angel.
Winona Ryder as Wonder Woman!!!!
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Well, I used to be in love with what's her name who played Wonder Woman when I was like 5. Something tells me they shouldn't go this route, they are stretching for movies, and this will be a money and time waster...
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Well?????
Sorry, but politial correctness and the overwhelming concern for decency these days will force them to redesign her skimpy suit, and make it into a business power suit. It will still be red white and blue though.
Is no one else here a fan of Dagny Taggart?
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What's Hollywood going to do when they've finished making a movie for each super hero?
Vin Diesel as Wonder Woman!
Halle Berry as Wonder Woman. Skin tight clothes, gratuitous body shots, no plot. Why, it'll be a box office smash!
That is all.
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No... didn't Rachel Bilson already practice this part?
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I just hope its not Halle Berry...
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I come here for science and technology news, and always chuckle when I see an article about some Star Trek/comic book/etc. development that I know nothing about.
Am I not a real "nerd" or something?
(Sorry for flambait, but I can't help it. Seeing so many of these recently, i.e. "Star Wars Episode III Commercial on The OC!" et al).
I love(d) Buffy and Angel... but somehow firefly didn't have the same magic. My point? I think Joss is very talented, but you have to have the right mix of talent in all departments (actors, writers, director, cinematography, etc. etc.) for a project to really work. I don't know why firefly didn't mesh the way Buffy and Angel did (and indeed many people will probably disagree with me anyway), but I'm not confident this movie will be any different.
any chance of another class?
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now I know everyone here want to see Natalie Portman as wonder-woman, but what about Angela Lansbury?. It certainly would be unexpected, and I for one have come to expect the unexpected..
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...is just terribly dated no matter how you look at it.
Therefore, to compensate for that, the outfit needs to be a lot skimpier. Enough skin and we won't notice the datedness.
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So apparently fox passed on whedon for this new guy, and apparently missed a perfect chance to pick up on whedons current fame, and talants. Serenity is debuting soon, the firefly based movie. Joss is currently writing Astonishing X-men, one of the best x-men runs since Grant Morrisons new x-men. But what does fox do, let him get a way... to some 2nd rate DC character, (sales wise, not ability wise). Terrible terrible. If x3 isnt super great... fox will forever bear the ire of us x fanboys.
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hmm, who should they get to play the lead role in the next crappy plotless comic book movie?..Halle Berry has proven herself worthy for that part..
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I am probably going to commit suicide if I hear that annoying voice on big screen
When is "What If..?" the motion picture coming out?
...because they want to wait a few days before we start making hot grits jokes.
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Ah yes, the classic female heroine: able to leap ATM Machines in a single bound, able configure NIC Cards with her eyes closed, and never forgets PIN Numbers!
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Did he create that Sharon Stone/x Baldwin brother crapfest Sliver as an autobiography?
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Don't make WW some silly neo-feminist character like they did with Catwoman in the second Batman film.
Joss has a real talent for writing amazing scripts and making characters memorable. Buffy was amazing, so was Angel, and the little bit I have seen of Firefly, I liked. Characters like Willow, Spike, Darla, Drusilla will live on forever, great writing is key, and Joss is a master. I have faith in Joss to make this a good movie, safe to say, way better than Catwoman
Let me be the first to say, I could care less who they pick, because it's still gonna be awesome.
But if I had to pick, I'd pick Keira Knightley, assuming they could build a "special" costume... heh heh.
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Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
All the world's waiting for you,
and the power you possess.
In your satin tights,
Fighting for your rights
And the old Red, White and Blue.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
Now the world is ready for you,
and the wonders you can do.
Make a hawk a dove,
Stop a war with love,
Make a liar tell the truth.
Wonder Woman,
Get us out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned on you.
And the magic that you do.
Stop a bullet cold,
Make the Axis fall,
Change their minds, and change the world.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
You're a wonder, Wonder Woman.
Please tell me her bra will shoot laser beams. I always wanted to see that. Hollywood can't skip such a gimmick. They are not complete until they show such.
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It is pretty common knowledge that the part is Jessica Biel's to turn down.
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How about Anna Nicole Smith or Pamela Sue Anderson or maybe Petra Verkaik? - NOTE: Petra last name might not be spelled correctly.
I'm sure either one could fill Wonder Woman's shoes admirably! :)
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Please let it be Monica Bellucci, please. A Wonder Woman with an italian accent is really not that big a deal, right? C'mon. Please. Please?
As long as she is well fit and they include an explicit lesbian scene with catwoman which occupies say the middle third of the movie.
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Daredevil bombed because it used a realatively unpopular superhero.
The Incredible Hulk bombed because of gimmicky direction, bad acting and a bad story.
Its hard to make a good superhero flick. Doing something origional is pretty tough for the popular characters because so much has already been done in the comic books.
This will bomb, and I feel bad for whoever is cast as wonderwoman. I doubt their carrer will recover from such a stunning setback.
Tank girl is in it?
was the "iconic female heroine of our time." Wonder Woman was your grandparents' Buffy.
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Actually, I was disappointed with Lynda Carter as WW. Now Cathy Lee Crosby, who played her in the TV movie pilot - THAT was a hottie!!!
I know, I'm really showing my age...
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Alicia Silverstone would be a good fit for this role. Haven't you watched Batman?
Supposedly both Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter are being pushed, one by Joss and one by the studio. Personally, I think Charisma can pull it off better, if only because she has the height. I don't picture Wonder Woman as 5-foot-and-change.
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I say it should be Erica Durance, who plays Lois Lane in Smallville.
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Two words: Jessica Simpson
...but Jessica Simpson has the looks and the body most closely resembling Lynda Carter.
Most of the other choices I've seen suggested here are just not voluptuous enough to be Wonder Woman. It's not that they're not attractive, just not beautiful.
I think Whedon hasn't come up with a decent idea since Buffy, and even then he had been coasting for a long time leading up to the final season. In my opinion, Firefly was garbage, and Titan AE was an "Eh" so far as a potentially groundbreaking animated feature could have been. "Serenity" is going to be Whedon's attempt at an apology, but I doubt it'll amount to much.
Wonder Woman in my estimation is really a horrible, outdated character, and he'll have to re-invent her if he plans to get anywhere. John Byrne better be on the set if he wants to get any real insight into that character - he's the only one that really understands her.
Yes I am interested in hearing what he's doing, but laughing my ass off that he'll plan to take on Wonder Woman instead of X3, which is much more his speed. At any rate, good luck and hope it works out.
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Wonder Woman simply appealed to a different audience. While I had Superman, my sister had Wonder Woman. Sure, she wasn't the type to buy comic books, but I bet she'd see the movie. And, if a girlfriend/wife wants to see this, I don't see many guys objecting.
Suzie Plakson. She might be a bit old for hollywood, but definitely has the "build" to pass for an amazon...
Let's hope it's better than his current run on Astonishing X-Men.
Joss's predecessor, Grant Morrison, had written one of the best and more finely tuned storylines in the past seven years of X-History, and Joss basically came in and trashed it.
His first work: raise Collosus from the dead. With no explanation as to how it was done, except that it was the product of aliens from another world.
What's he doing now? Well, the X-Men are currently fighting against their most mortal mechanical enemy: the Danger Room. Yes, it reads like a plotline from the early 70's, but the dialouge is worse.
God only knows how Joss can mold Wonder Woman into his ideal image. My bet is that she will be a teenager, have more high school drama than superhero drama, and not have half the backstory that the current Diana of Troy has.
J-LO as wonderwoman..... Ben Affleck as the Col....
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Serenity is in post-production and will be coming out this fall. They are already finished shooting it.
"your grandparents' buffy."
Wonder Woman SUCKS!
Her weird beautiful but feminist odd semi deity origin might have worked in the '40s or '50s, but come on she's has just way too much muddled baggage in the way of what 13 years boys think women are or should be.
There are other much more interesting Female Superheroes to do movies about. Good origin stories etc... They're only doing Wonder Women because she's been around so long guys in their 60 and 70s might give the movie a look. I haven't read any Wonder Woman stories in over 30 years (and they sucked then), but if she has been reinvented in any reasonable manner (and I suspect not, having seen the animated Justice League) it will not sit well with the older fans looking to indulge in nostalgia.
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Is it just me, or is that a violation of my patent on "Redundancy, or Saying the Same Thing Twice (US PAT# 384015367)?"
I mean, have you ever heard of a male heroine? (remember, mail heroin is a different matter.)
Hey editors, you owe me some money to license that patent.
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Speaking of filmatisations, why can't they make a Green Lantern movie? Enormous powers, cosmic background, back story written by Larry Niven, and of course a guy in green spandex.
*That's* entertainment!
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Whedon's enough of a fanboy he's *got* to try and get Carter to do a cameo as the Amazon queen/WW's mother.
Angelina Jolie...rrrrowwwr! Or Catherine Zeta Jones if Angelina turns it down.
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Iconic female heroine of our time...
Condoleeza.... Or Hillary...
...who died in a tragic car accident yesterday under mysterious circumstances.
I vote for Jenna Jameson to be Wonder Woman, because she certainly is!
Lucy Lawless and Bruce Campbell
Need any more names be offered? I don't think so.
Angelina Jolie ... maybe not because she's done Lara Croft already ... maybe not because she's too expensive these days ... whoa yeah, would be sweet .... schwing! obbie doobie! i'd pay to see that! ... sexy wonder woman with an accent .... could be good .... another good posibility - she's got attitude.
Catherine Zeta Jones
Terri Farrell from DS9
Katie Holmes
Monica Bellucci
Charisma Carpenter
Elisha Duku
I'm sure she would still look great in the outfit, almost 30 years later.
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Charlize Theron, but she's already playing Aeon Flux.
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Not that I think she should play the roll, but I hear "female" and "heroine" and I think of Courtney Love.
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Hot...so hot.
here's a picture.
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Angelina Jolie
Eliza Dushku
Lauren Graham
Charisma Carpenter
My only hope is that the costume is updated.. more leather perhaps...
Of course, Wonder Woman has to be some beaty queen type, but let's at least cast an actress that could potentially pull off the whole superhero thing.
Famke Janssen would work, but she's already an X-Man. Just please, not some waif like Kiera Knightley, unless she wants to hit the gym and the beefcake 3000 and gain a good 20 pounds of muscle.
Leelee Sobieski?
How about Gina Torres?
She would be a good idea.
Surely?
She'd never do it, but Cate Blanchette (SP?), she's incredibly beautiful, and has the acting ability to appear intimidating.
I think its the lips, I just can't buy Jennifer Garner as Electra because of those giant lips, (that and the horrible acting) and everyone else I've seen named here has the same affliction.
I vote Angelina Jolie. That is all.
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Fat Actress star Kirstie Alley. This is, of couse, assuming she actually loses some weight on that damn show of hers.
After they cast Keanu as Constantine, expecting the unexpected is right.
Maybe expecting the idiotic is more like it. Blasphemy is what that was.
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With their recent creativity we can expect origional ideals like....
The day the earth stood still....
The Blob.....
invaders from Mars....
attack of the crab monsters....
with miracle on 34th street as a holidy film.
wow how do they think of these films they are making!
It amazes me how badly hollywood movies are getting.... bollywood is passing them in creativity already.
god help us when they remake the star wars crap.
Think about Roseann doing the part then!!
Jennifer Love Hewitt is one of the few actresses graced with the natural "assets" to 'fill out' a role as Wonder (-bra) Woman.
While she does have the 'imposing physical presence', she isn't as tall/large as the comic character.... and doesn't have the piercing eyes.
Solution?: Give her some elevator hooker-boots and contact lenses and let those sweater-cows work their magic!
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Remakes!
Must they all suck? I remember Supergirl (1984) and I didn't even bother to watch Catwoman due to horrid reviews. Let's hope this breaks the trend...
I think she'd be up for it. She was looking pretty good as "Governer Fsckhead" in "Super Troopers", and apparently, she's going to be in the "Dukes of Hazzard" movie.
Jessica Alba. Dark Angel, Fantastic 4, and she makes great eye candy.
Don't forget Alyssa Milano ;-)
OMFG, I think I'm in love!!! Is she going to guest star on Fat Actress?
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"iconic female heroine of our time."
As opposed to "iconic male heroine of our time?
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Xena was pretty iconic. :-) I stared in Wonder at her, uh, vast tracts of land! Anyway, she's tall, voluptuous and certainly experienced in taking down the bad guys.
I always equivocate. Well, almost always.
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Why, do remakes and do them all over again for a gullible new generation!
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Monica Bellucci is SO beautiful,
I'd gladly swim through a river of shit just to watch her panties go by in a laundry truck!
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Jenna Jameson. Ooft.
Jenna Jameson
She'd be great. She's gorgeous, fit, but probably "too cool" for such a role.
I hope they include this classic joke as a scene in the movie:
While flying above the Hall of Justice, Superman spots Wonder Woman stark naked and lying down on her back spread-eagle on the roof. Superman thinks, 'Hey, I am Superman, I can fly down there at the speed of light, have a quickie and fly back out and she won't even feel it.'
Superman flies down, does a quick in-out-in-out and flies back out at the speed of light.
Wonder Woman says, 'What the hell was that?' The Invisible man says, 'I don't know but my ass is killing me!'
I dunno. I think the "from the TV show" cameo is wearing thin. Lou Ferrigno in The Hulk, Stan Lee in everything (although he was smarter than I and avoided The Punisher). Then you have the TV shows (Starsky and Hutch) doing the same thing.
I'm now just looking for a smart update of the material without any hipster/Gen X *wink wink/nudge nudge* masquerading as content.
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You had boobies and bush EVERYWHERE! Porky's? Yes! Porky's 2? Yes. The various Friday the 13ths? Yes! The Nightmare on Elm Street series? Yes! The police academy series? Yes!
Can you point me to which of the Police Academy movies featured bush? I know there's that one where Callihan wears a wet t-shirt in the pool but if there's another one where she's showing bush, that would really "make my day" if you get my drift. Go ahead, make my day. Post it!
would have to be Shannon Elizabeth (sp?)
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Or is she a little to old for the role? Is Wonder Woman supposed to be in her early 20s?
SuperDickery.com has a surprising pic of a Wonder Woman panel, followed by a pretty funny caption.
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Wonder Woman also went by the name "wonder juggs" when I was a kid.
I wonder if this is the end for Josh's TV-shows, and then no more Firefly TV-show (that I hoped and dreamed would come after a huge success with the film). I'm a afraid he will love making movies so much he'd never return to TV.
I hope I'm wrong.
As long as its not halle berry we should all be ok.
I dont think anyone could kill such a good concept as catwomen more then halle berry.
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You sir are a genius. I completely agree.
Not only is she incredibly good looking, but she appears to have some acting skill. She also has the physical presence to do it convincingly.
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I know she's big money now - but she looks like wonder woman. She has the Stoicism of wonder woman and she can take a risk. its sort of irrelevant to this discussion - but you guys know that WW is an Amazon - and Amazona is derived from Amastos - meaning women without breast(s). Presumed to mean that they ritually removed one breast so they could fire a bow and arrow better. Doubt that would make in the movie though
Lucy Lawless a la Xena for Super Woman...
...because, in the end, you'll pay some studio to see it; the same studio that helps worsen far more important things like copyright law and creating laws to control technological development so the "owners" of bits that flow through your machine have more say in how that machine works than you do. This applies in the US and abroad.
The same can be said of the latest Star Wars and Lord of the Rings advertisements that come on Slashdot from time to time.
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...perfect for that role.
If they are casting for the role of Wonder Woman then I'll just quote the Proust Recital game show skit from a MP episode:
"We couldn't decide on a winner so we've decided to give the prize to the woman with the biggest tits." *WILD APPLAUSE*
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Should be from the 'finish-firefly-first-damnit-dept'. Every time I rewatch the series I find more and more unfinished plot lines I want the answers for!
A bit more on-topic, I'm curious as to what the Wonder Woman movie is going to be like after receiving the Joss treatment? He's big on lesbians (as noted elsewhere), can't go wrong wiht that. :) But I also find his work includes a lot of subtle humor mastefully weilded by the main characters. I wouldn't be too surprised if our heroine ends up providing some great superhero one-liners right up there with Batman's "chicks dig the car."
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Lynda Carter accelerated my puberty. She was hot and still looks pretty damn good for her age.
If she can't do it then they should get Lindsay Lohan to do it. Not becuase of her (lack of) acting talent but because her other "talents" match my memories of Wonder Woman's greatest "powers". Shannon Elizabeth would be a good choice also.
Note that the first golden age of superheroes was in the second world war. Very evil people were about and the average joe needed some measure of hope that good would triumph. The comic-book all-American flag-waving superhero provided that outlet.
Now we see another resurgence in the superhero in our movies and popular culture. Is it not surprising that this is occurring during a new wartime. There are evil people about and the general population feels powerless.
It doesn't help that the government feeds the fear of the average citizen with color-coded threat levels and dire warnings of cooperation between separate terrorists.
Had 9/11 not happened would we still be looking for our superheroes?
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
I never saw that film. So my statement stands. I couldn't tell you the last time I saw bush in a hollywood movie.
LK
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You have to watch carefully, but in a handful of scenes where Persephone (Monica Bellucci, the hot Italian woman in a white latex-ish dress) is helping the good guys get the Keymaker, you can clearly see her bush through the dress.
That would be nice...
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Hmm, when I first read the title it came into my brain as "Wil Wheaton" rather that "Joss Whedon"... and while I really like Wil... that would be a different movie entirely...
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I love(d) Buffy and Angel... but somehow firefly didn't have the same magic. ...many people will probably disagree with me anyway
You hear the hereitic, we must BURN them for such blaspheme!
Seriously though, Buffy and Angel were crappy camp. Firefly is a drama. Don't even try to compare them, because firefly is light years (hah-get it?) beyond that other garbage.
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This is old news... I read this news story in TV Guide about 3 weeks ago. Joss mentioned that he was looking at Charisma Carpenter to play the role. He said Sarah Michelle Gellar was too short.
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Angelina Jolie is the one. Nobody can kick ass like her! Watch her kick Brad Pitt's ass in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" this summer.
Besides, she has the mouth...
Although I gotta admit, I really liked the way Cathy Lee Crosby played the role in the TV movie years ago. The bit with the snake and the dish of milk was cool.
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Hmmm, recently my GF got the WW tv show on DVD, and after watching Linda Carter on it, I'd have to say that Sarah Michelle Gellar couldn't cut it as WW. She is pretty, a competent actress, and certainally capable of handeling any physical stunts required, but she doesn't have nearly the mammalry potential that Linda did. I mean, she just couldn't fill out the role. For something like the you need the very brest actress you can find.
Joking aside, WW is an interesting character, as she is sort of the ultimate feminist. Girls watch her a feel empowered, and she is sexy and feminin without being some sort of angry man-hating radical, so she isn't threatining to men. A very clever and subversive character, there.
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Judging from past experience, Whedon will want to cast a relative unknown in the part, which will allow him to impose his own vision on the character. Except that the studios will definitely insist on a Big Name, for all the usual reasons. And they probably won't want the same kind of actor that Whedon will want. Which sets the stage for some nasty conflicts. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what has happened with every project Whedon has been involved with -- with the possible exception of the TV version of Buffy. Truth is, if I were a movie studio, I'd be very wary of the dude.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy and admire a lot of Whedon's work. But he's never seemed to be able to deal with making TV or movies as a truly collaborative process. At least, that's my explanation for why he's no longer friendly with a lot of the people he helped to success. And why Buffy became unwatchable as soon as Whedon started delegating its production.
in my dreams. Seriously, I can't think of a better choice.
She did a terrific job in "Relic Hunter" and really deserved a shot at "Tomb Raider" movie. Her physique and personality would make a great fit for Wonder Woman.
I really don't want to re-image Wonder Woman to a man......
The new BG is interesting, but I still think making Starbuck a girl was bad idea. Switching to Star Wars, I had the same problem with Han not shooting first......
Ok, maybe in the states you are hurting for nudity, but here in Canada, it's on as early as 8pm. Last week, ASN (TV network) showed the original version of Sword Fish, boobies and all. Most nights you can find boobies on CBC. Heck, CTV had Sopranos on un-edited two years ago. Our movies (though artsy and under funded) are often loaded with sex. Poor U.S. Janet took what sex you had left away.
Err, she is a natural brunette, go look for some of her early photos.
But Rocki Roads is taller with even larger endowments that don't sag.
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Hear, hear! I think she'd be perfect as Hippolyta, and it would be a neat tribute, or tip o' the tiara if you will.
Of Iraq 2 POW/MIA fame.
C'mon, they've got to get Condoleeze Rice. She even has her own theme song!
Of course, some wimpy, too-skinny "actress" will be chosen. For my money, WW should be Joanna Thomas, although she's a brit, Gina Davis, Melissa Detwiller, or similar :-)
To be precise, she just made us uninterested in sex for a little while. But we've recovered.
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That's scary! I had the same message in my Cheerios this morning!
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She's got the height and the cups of an Amazon...
Seriously...there was a whore on the Firefly. ;)
Currently, female crime fighters are expected to be slutty AND powerful.
she was actually pretty. If you've ever seen the old 50s movie Samson and Delilah then you'll know what I mean. Of course, that was fifty years ago!
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You should all know that there is an entire "Super-Friends" movie in the works, and my boss, Mr. Cohen is in charge of casting for it. Mr. Cohen is on extended leave right now while he tackles his various, er, addictions, so he's put the casting decisions in my capable hands. Here's some of my notes that are going to the studio next week:
Wonderwoman: Rosie O'Donald. Sure, that spunky little gal may not have the looks, but her endearing spirit and positive attitude make her the only logical choice. Plus, she has an ample frame for supporting a costume that is both revealing, and can hold all sorts of super-hero toys.
Superman: You have to have Christopher Reeves play him again. First, because he knows the part, and secondly, who says superman can't be disabled? What are you, prejudiced?
Aquaman: Hey, there's only one man in Hollywood who can pull off a believable character who breaths under water. And that man is Kevin Costner. I'm pretty sure he still has his gills from Water-world, so there's a cost savings there.
Batman: When he's with the super friends, Batman isn't some brooding, dark, deep and complicated super-hero that we saw in all of his movies. He's jolly and righteous! You know who else is jolly and righteous? Radio personality Rush Limbaugh. A little birdie told me Limbaugh is itching to try out acting, and what a better place then in a super friends movie.
Robin: It's about time Hollywood wakes up to the reality that Robin is gay. Let's stop trying to hide it. So we should get an actor who is also gay, and should stop trying to hide it. Sure he's getting old, but Hollywood veteran Tom Cruise would be a perfect Robin, for no other reason then the mutual outing of two pop-culture institutions.
The Wonder Twins: This ones a no brainer: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. 'Nuff said. The difficult part would be casting the voice of their trusty side-kick thing, Gleek, which I'm sure would be all CGI. Fran Drescher is at the top of my list until I think of somebody better.
The Legon of Doom: Those are the bad guys, so you are only allowed to cast evil actors in those roles.
Lex Luthor: Let's update the super-friends for the 90s, and cast Luther as a woman. Who says a woman can't be powerfully evil? We'll need some one big and fat who makes your skin crawl whenever you see them, so the obvious choice is Kirstie Alley.
All the other chracters for the LOD will be CGI or Muppets, voiced by Frank Oz.
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She resembles the character, she's done some other superhero-ish role, she can act (Wiseguy)... OK she's in her 40s...
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It would be a nice tip-of-the-hat to the TV series if they brought Lynda Carter in to play Diana's/Wonder Woman's mother.
My choice to play Wonder Woman is still Lucy Lawless, after all, she's already shown she can kick ass in a bustier!
Maggie Gyllenhaal - she has the eyes for it.
In Thirteen you can see Holly Hunter's bush, FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER. She's angry and naked in a hallway, the camera pans down (so you can see her bush is angry too) and then back up for the end of the emotional reaction.
Or if you were instead talking about fun movies like Private School. Blame the media. All the girls who would have breast you'd want to see either chunkup, wear mountains of baggy clothes, or get reductions (NOW there's a medical proceedure I can see banning!!!), or ruin nature's bounty with implants. Want to fix it? Put straight men in charge of fasion, and force any woman considering augmentation to get the approval of 6 blue collar workers before hand.
Seriously... and she was god damn hot too. Morena Baccarin you Brazilian hottie! What do I have to do to make you love me again!?
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Morena! *sob*
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I shoulda previewed. *sigh* For what its worth, i do feel shame, and I do not deserve the karma bonus either for that post. Moderators, please mod parent down while I flog myself.
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her imdb entry
You know, there is such a thing as pulling images manually from your cache folder. I've been doing this since forever and it's just habit nowadays. I only use the Print Screen key as an absolute LAST resort, which happens less than 0.0001% of the time.
Yum, yum and yummy. CC probably my least favorite on the list, and I do like Charisma alot.
not Joe Sliver!
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..then I have no problem with the remake.
Wil Wheaton.
Here is a picture of the greatest canadian heroine: Marg The Warrior Princess
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
All the world's waiting for you,
and the power you possess.
In your satin tights,
Fighting for your rights
And the old Red, White and Blue.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
Now the world is ready for you,
and the wonders you can do.
Make a hawk a dove,
Stop a war with love,
Make a liar tell the truth.
Wonder Woman,
Get us out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned on you.
And the magic that you do.
Stop a bullet cold,
Make the Axis fall,
Change their minds, and change the world.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
You're a wonder, Wonder Woman.
This written, of course, by Norman Gimbel, and Charles Fox.
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I think she did a photoshoot for playboy last year. She would be my pick for the movie.
Angelina Jolie
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Also this post should help counter the damage done by the last
I guess he avoided the Punisher because he wasn't involved at all in his creation, unlike all the other Marvel movie characters. He'll surely be in Fantastic Four, which, from the trailers, looks *terrible*...
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We've now seen Charlie's Angels, Battlestar Galactica, Starsky & Hutch, and a long list of other 70's and 80's shows rehashed into modern TV content -- (most of them badly, but that's besides the point). The point is that most of these shows *can* be re-hashed because there's something about these shows that has some relevance today.
/. but I'm going to come out and say it: Firefly sucked. It got pulled off TV because it sucked. Its ratings were god awful, the acting was awful, the scenario's were the worst of B-movie drivel and its special effects were few and far between. The only reason we all desperately wanted it to be good was that we had an already long in the tooth Star Trek as our only option.
Wonder Woman is not one of those shows.
Wonder Woman is embarrasingly dated, and unless this is going to be a comedy (its not) I'm going to bet on it being god awful.
Not only does its very title suggest an era when women weren't thought to be capable of much, but its about a woman who comes from an "island of powerful Amazonian women" for crying out loud. Does anyone *not* find this backstory to be a little stupid?
Now on to Joss Whedon: I know this is heresy on
So what's behind the concept of a rehashed Wonder Woman? Simple: We have Joss Whedon trying to get back on his feet after the bad stumble that Firefly was, returning to the old familiar theme of his one big success: "A chick who kicks ass".
Except the problem is that Wonder Woman doesn't really kick ass. She's got a hilariously dated costume (which she dons by spinning around!) some shiny gold wristlets, and a backstory that can only call into question her obvious European features.
This is going to crash and burn.
Enough with the rehashed 70's crap...
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So being *dead* now just counts as a disability? I didn't realize that. Admittedly they can do a lot with computer graphics these days to make a dead actor appear in a movie, but then I think the actor's familiarity with the part is much less of a factor...
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Eliza Dushku could play the role better than either SMG or Charisma Carpenter.
1) She looks more like wonder woman
2) shes a better actress than either of them
3) She has a bigger box office draw than either of them
4) Shes more physically impressive
5) Shes got the right color hair...without dye
6) Shes only 26...shes young enough for a sequel
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I keep thinking about Dave Chapell's routine where he points out how lame it is that WW has a whip that makes you tell the truth and has an invisible jet.
I don't see how they can rework the character to make it believable for a contemporary audience.
I've also read thay they are thinking of doing a Captain America movie. Again, I just don't see how that could work.
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So being *dead* now just counts as a disability?
First of all, the proper term for refering to the recently departeted is not 'death', it's "pre-decompisitionary". And secondly, if there is a better catagory for disabled then pre-decopisitionary, I've never seen it.
And I don't see any major challenges for exhuming the grave of Reeves so he can play super-man as a pre-decompisitionary differenlty abled character. We have some pretty good acting coaches to help out.
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That is all!
Since end of the 90s, the typical superheros like Superman, Wonder Woman etc. can no longer be counted as being from "our time", because they no longer fit in here. They fit perfectly in the second half of the 20th century, but it is a clear sign when people cannot imagine a Superman in its classical style to be hip today. The world changed, the classic heroes did not. One way how to do it right is Smallville: this is a Clark Kent that changed with the world.
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kate beckinsale!
"I wonder if you're a woman, Wonder Woman"
Naomi would be an excellent wonder woman.
I was like, Wil Wheaton to Write/Direct Wonder Woman.. Okay. Hmm, okay.
I just had a vision.
"Wil Wheaton is...Wonder Woman!"
For one reason: it requires approval of the estate of Charles Moulton Marston, the creator of the Wonder Woman character. (It should be noted that the way the DC Comics division of Time Warner handles the Wonder Woman copyrights includes special deferences to some fairly complicated clauses from the Marston estate in handling the character rights and design.)
I do think, however, that the costume design will probably be one used by the current artist on the comic book, though.
I think that would be a perfect role for Lynda Carter in the new movie--after all, she is old enough and has the right hair color to play the same Hippolyta we know from the original comic book (I know that Hippolyta has always been shown with black hair at least since the early 1970's).
If Monica Bellucci was just eight years younger she would have been perfect for the role. As such, given the potential for sequel movies, she's too old to star in this role, even though she looks like the way they're drawing the WW character now in the comics.
I think the Lucy Lawless of circa 1995--just when she started her role as Xena: Warrior Princess--would have worked for the WW role, because Lawless was tall enough and muscular enough for the role back then.
As such, don't be surprised that Joss Whedon choses a relative unknown for the title role. After all, Lynda Carter was a virtual unknown when she got the role in 1976, and it was amazing sheer luck that she looked almost exactly like the way WW was drawn in the comics at the time.
I mean come on!!
When I saw that it was being prodused by Joel Sliver I was thinking it was Joel Schumacher, the man who gave Batman's suit nipples. I gasped in horror and then checked IMDB
I vote Catherine Bell to play Wonder Woman!!
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Excuse me, but if you've ever seen Alien: Resurrection (aka. Alien 4), I'm sure you wouldn't be saying that putting Marti Noxon in charge of Buffy is the only bad thing Joss Whedon's ever done.
Because as we all know from the RHPS audience script, "Janet's got the heroin" ...
I'm with you on the "Tomb Raider" thing, but she's Hawaiian.
She's in good physical condition like Wonder Woman, but completely lacking in the pale white skin and blue eyes department. Then again, they did get Arnold to play Conan just the way he was (without the oft-described black hair and blue eyes from the books). Maybe it could work anyway...
Nah. More people have seen Linda Carter, the JLA cartoons, or the comics than have read the Conan novels.
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Looks kind of like Linda Carter.
I can easily picture Firefly's Inara dressed as WW and kicking butt. She'd be perfect! Of course, she'd have to gain 20 pounds to fill out those legendary thunderthighs ;)