Wonder Woman (Live Action Movie)

[Nightwing]

From IGN.com:

"It's been quite a week for superhero news, with Black Panther, X-Men, Captain America 2 and Justice League items all breaking over the last 24 hours. And amid all these developments, a not-minor story kind of got buried last night: The Wonder Woman live-action movie is back on track at Warner Bros.

The news was buried at the end of Variety's Justice League story yesterday, where it was stated that Green Lantern scribe Michael Goldenberg "was hired to write Wonder Woman." It's not clear when this hiring took place, nor if it was a move made in concert with the hiring of Will Beall to write the new JLA script for the studio.

Variety also points out that two other Green Lantern writers, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green, are working on The Flash for director Greg Berlanti (also a GL vet!). This isn't news, but the overall impression is that Warner Bros. is finally getting serious about the rest of their superheroes in the wake of The Avengers' success (and with The Dark Knight trilogy soon coming to an end). What's less clear is why they're relying so heavily on the team that helped to create Green Lantern, which obviously was not the success the studio had hoped for (though certainly a bulk of the blame for that film has been laid at director Martin Campbell's feet).

Anyhow, Warners and DC have been trying to get Wonder Woman onscreen for some time. There was that Joss Whedon/Joel Silver big-screen push several years back (which must sting for the studio in this post-Avengers world), and just last year a TV show from The Practice's David E. Kelley, starring Adrianne Palicki, made it to the pilot stage before getting dropped. Now, the princess' time may finally have come."

 

[The Mike]

DC is rushing to try and get a JL film off the ground and resorting to using GL scribes for everything, they are handling both The Flash and Wonder Woman with Goyer handling the new Batman and Superman and it will all fall flat.

WB seems to forget that The Avengers was a 4 year process that came to fruition (a process that WB publicly said would fail) and now they are running to catch up.

Ryan Reynolds might keep his GL role simply because it'd be easier to use than to establish yet another character in their mad dash.

 

[karamazov80]

What's less clear is why they're relying so heavily on the team that helped to create Green Lantern, which obviously was not the success the studio had hoped for (though certainly a bulk of the blame for that film has been laid at director Martin Campbell's feet).

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. . .DC fires Joss Whedon, and hires on guys responsible in part for Green Lantern. Brilliant.

 

[devilof76]

 

[hunnipot85]

Whedon would probably come back and do Wonder Woman, no? Seems like that would be his dream project.

 

[CTO15]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. . .DC fires Joss Whedon, and hires on guys responsible in part for Green Lantern. Brilliant.

lol, those DC execs are genius. Why hire the writer of a film that tanked hard?


Why are they "rushing" all of a sudden to get a JLA movie? How long has this Avengers movie been planned for? since after IM (2008)?

 

[Nightwing]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. . .DC fires Joss Whedon, and hires on guys responsible in part for Green Lantern. Brilliant.

 

[Bullseye]

Don't tell me they hired the writers of Green Lantern (live action movie)? WTF.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. . .DC fires Joss Whedon, and hires on guys responsible in part for Green Lantern. Brilliant.

Whedon would probably come back and do Wonder Woman, no? Seems like that would be his dream project.

You would think WB would revisit Joss's screenplay and give it a second chance.

 

[The Mike]

Whedon would probably come back and do Wonder Woman, no? Seems like that would be his dream project.

Whedon kind of unofficially put it out there that he'd tackle even the JLA, even in jest, I'm assuming he wouldn't be opposed to it given how invested he once was in the character.

lol, those DC execs are genius. Why hire the writer of a film that tanked hard?

Well given a good director, they'll come in and tear apart the script. Nolan never left Goyer's original scripts in place, even writing over some of the stuff Jonathan changed. I'm sure they need a quick "base" which is what failed GL in the first place when the base was changed and then changed three times over by different writers including Geoff Johns which gives it the disjointed feeling.

Why are they "rushing" all of a sudden to get a JLA movie? How long has this Avengers movie been planned for? since after IM (2008)?

The Avengers was planned as early as 2007. Iron Man was trying to get off the ground as early as 1995 with Tom Cruise once attached. When Iron Man was filming Favreau and company knew that the end result of all of it was The Avengers. All of the different directors and scribes were well aware of where it was going.

 

[darthviper107]

I think Joss would probably turn down an offer to do Wonder Woman

 

[thenammagazine]

And yet people wonder why I don't think a stand-alone JLA movie is a good idea?

 

[IrishJedi]

WB is obviously grab-bagging. There's no plan. They will ____ this all up.

 

[Radagaster]

That's because WB is thinking with their money and not looking at the talent! Hire the talent, don't go cheap, and your chances of a hit becomes greater. You only need one bad movie to derail a 4-year lead-up.

Look at movies that were sold as sequel-ready before they were released, only to find out the first movie bombed! Last Airbender, anyone? Ditto with Golden Compass . . .and the list goes on.

 

[The Mike]

WB is obviously grab-bagging. There's no plan. They will ____ this all up.

Bingo, something will snap and what it will be most likely is really ____ty individual films and a lukewarm JL film. I wouldn't be shocked if we see actual castings occur before scripts are even locked up.

 

[thenammagazine]

That's because WB is thinking with their money and not looking at the talent! Hire the talent, don't go cheap, and your chances of a hit becomes greater. You only need one bad movie to derail a 4-year lead-up.

Look at movies that were sold as sequel-ready before they were released, only to find out the first movie bombed! Last Airbender, anyone? Ditto with Golden Compass . . .and the list goes on.

Again, Iron Man 2 and Incredible Hulk disagree. Both were largely underwhelming and had absolutely zero effect on Avengers. But you do need a successful launching pad to build up to a team-based movie and pull it off on the level they're expecting. Isolating MoS and the 2014 Batman relaunch are counterproductive to that goal.

 

[Kamandi]

If Joss directed a WW movie he probably couldn't use Cobey Smulders since she's under contract to Marvel. That might be enough to keep him off the movie.

 

[The Mike]

Ryan Reynolds would completely throw that theory out of the window as he is still under sequel contracts with DC/WB for Green Lantern and still under sequel options with Marvel for Deadpool. The only thing that would hinder is if she was contractually obligated to film during the WW filming time with a Marvel project but other than that, all the actresses are open game from any Marvel film.

 

[Bullseye]

Why would that keep him from directing WW?

 

[The Mike]

I guess if his vision seriously included her?