h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel creator Joss Whedon has signed to write and direct Wonder Woman, a live-action film adaptation of the DC Comics character for Warner Bros. Pictures. Joel Silver and Leonard Goldberg are producing.

"Wonder Woman is the most iconic female heroine of our time, but in a way, no one has met her yet," Whedon said. "What I love most about icons is finding out what’s behind them, exploring the price of their power. When Joel and I began discussing the character, I realized there is a woman behind the legend who is very fascinating, very uncompromising and in her own way almost vulnerable. She’s someone who doesn’t belong in this world, and since everyone I know feels that way about themselves, the character clicked for me."

Wonder Woman is the superhero name of Diana, an Amazonian princess from Paradise Island, an uncharted island to which the Amazons fled to escape domination by the ancient Greeks and Romans. She has super strength, bracelets that deflect bullets and a golden lasso that ensnares victims and forces them to tell the truth. She has, at times, even had her own super vehicle, an invisible plane.

"There’s no one better than Joss to adapt the legendary Wonder Woman comic book character created in the 1940s into a dynamic feature film for 21st century audiences," Silver said. "Wonder Woman was the first great female superhero to emerge from comic books and later inspire millions of fans in her television incarnation, but unlike her counterparts Batman and Superman, this groundbreaking heroine has yet to be reinvented for the feature film arena."

The big question should be. Who's going to take the starring role? (Brain goes mad imagining numerous stars in wonder woman outfit). We know Joss' taste.

Who do you think it should be? Angelina Jolie comes to mind.

Xander

I read a while ago that Charisma Carpenter was one of the candidates (probably on Dark Horizons).

It has to be Charisma Carpenter. If you have seen the photo of her leaning against a full length glass window from a certain magazine I don't think there could be much doubt as to her qualifications for the role.

Woe, Woe and thrice woe. They are looking for a mere slip of a girl of about 22 to play Wonder Woman. Surely that is a contradiction in terms! Will we never see Charisma again? Names such as Mischa Barton from the OC and Jessica Biel are being bandied about.

C

More news on the subject, both on the BBC Cult News-page, and here:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/050520g.php

Same story, slightly different details.

And yet more news here,

http://www.iesb.net/upcomingfilm/061405.php

including a short video interview with Morena Baccarin about WW and Serenity (not much in the way of spoilers, fortunately). They do, however, have trouble synchronizing sound and pictures... (On that site, not in the movie - I hope. )

I would not have any argument with Morena Baccarin being Wonder Woman. She was born in Rio De Janeiro, has a Brazilian mother, is 5'9" tall, stunningly beautiful......Pretty much the ideal for Diana. But could we have Charisma as her big sister?