There was a story circulating last week that a Golden Age script had been picked up in possible to competition to Whedon's. Guess that urned out to be true.
(I thought it was CBR, found it.)
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9527
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 3 February 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)
I think they should just jump right in with Donna Troy as Wonder Woman and show the trial of Diana Prince trying to bring herself in for the murder of Maxwell Lord, and have plenty of references to OMACs and Rann/Thanagar War and that Minotaur guy from the Themiscyran Embassy and...
or whatever.
I think the thing about Wonder Woman that sets her apart from the male superheroes of recent movie stardom isn't just her gender, it's that she's, y'know, a grown adult. Like, okay, sure, there's maybe something of a coming of age thing with her venturing forth into Man's World, but, in my mind at least, Wonder Woman can't be Wonder Girl in Man's World. By the time she hits the real world, she's already been through the trials of the Amazons (which I guess would be a very sexyempowering movie.
But the latest batch of superhero films have all been teensploitation flix (even Superman Returns, because, um, HOLY DeGRASSI! A CHILD WAS BORN!), and Wonder Woman ain't no teen.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)
Huk OTM, and that is *precisely* why Whedon was the wrong choice for this flick.
― J (Jay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)
Whedon's never the wrong choice for anything at all. :-/
"The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers."
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)
I don't know Whedon at all, struggling to get through the pilot of Firefly at the exhortations of my brother, so maybe my idea of Whedon is jaundiced by his appearances in the signatures of message board posters, but is he Dorothy Parker or something?
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)
Actually the anti-Whedon reasoning on this thread is sound enough, and if "coming of age" in the conventional sense was what he had in mind for the Wonder Woman movie, it is probably a good thing that he got dropped (tho really, who're they gonna get that's better?) I was sort of hoping that despite what's leaked Whedon would try for a different sort of main character, but then I suppose one can't blame directors for having "unifying themes"/obsessions/whatevah.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)
(also
"Buffy" >>>>
"Firefly", but we've had that discussion before)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)
Dorothy Parker got her stint on
"Vanity Fair" as a replacement for P.G. Wodehouse!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)