Kate Beckinsale has reportedly joined the race to play Wonder Woman in Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon's upcoming comic book movie. The British actress is in negotiations with Whedon, according to movie gossip website joblo.com. Insiders claim Whedon is "very happy" with Beckinsale and confirmed last week that production on his highly anticipated movie adaptation of the popular comic book series will begin filming in early September. Buffy stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter, and teen queen Lindsay Lohan have been linked to the coveted role - which was played on TV by Lynda Carter. Former hot favorite Carpenter even remarked she was putting off having a second baby in the hope of landing the dream role. She recently told a reporter, "I'd like to (have another baby) eventually, but I want Wonder Woman right now. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm crossing my fingers and toes and praying."
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)
― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)
Hmm... closest yet, but still you'd think there'd be someone better out there.
― mitya's new york minute (mitya), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)
I mean, c'mon Joss! You've cast her in two shows--once, in Angel, as a God and then in Firefly as an Amazonian asskicker.
And a black Wonder Woman--think of the theme song possibilities!
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)
― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)
― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)
― andy --, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)
WW is an Amazon.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)
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― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)
― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)
Come on, she made Underworld boring. And that was WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES FIGHTING.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)
Yes, me personally.
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)
"What I want to bring to it a different kind of hero—not like the ones I’m used to writing. She’s stronger, more focused than anybody I’ve ever written, she doesn’t want to go shopping, she doesn’t want to shoot that guy next to her, she doesn’t want to play her advantage.
She is a complete hero and what’s interesting to me, is she represents an ideal that is in its own way, can’t be operative, and yet that strength in her is her greatest weakness, because the world’s not built that way. It’s not built to for people to be completely pure and completely heroic. And so she is someone who is so at odds with this world, that she fascinates me and that’s what I want to show.
I want to show that there is a reason why we’re not all like Wonder Woman and then ultimately show there’s a reason why we either are or should be.
What’s the ideal she epitomizes?
She epitomizes the ideal of absolute integrity and a total lack of compromise. She simply will not accept that things should be as bad as they are. That people don’t help each other more than they do. That our societal structures are so twisted and misogynous that our political structures are so completely blown apart.
She just looks at the world and doesn’t say, Well yeah, that’s how it is. She says, We’ve got to solve this.
And there are people in the world, there have been people in my life, who’ve spent their lives working for charities, foundations and places that are kind of like that."
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)
― A Van That's Loaded With Male Bitterness (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)
― mitya's new york minute (mitya), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)
But perhaps he does--but that's also pretty much the deal with WW as well, hence the wonder, one supposes.
Anyway--I say Torres.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)
that's goddamn right! there's a team of us now.
― horsehoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 08:30 (twenty years ago)
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)
GODBER!!
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)
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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:53 (twenty years ago)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)
― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)
Sarah Beeny's breasts are weird, they seem to fluctuate wildly in size from episode to episode. Like, beyond the realms of push-up bra-assistance. It's really distracting, and has become something of an obsession. I'm glad it's not just me.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)
Original Wonder Woman finds dead body!
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/07/wonder.woman.body.ap/index.html
― StanM, Saturday, 7 June 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)