The Modern Up-To-Date Wonder Woman

gallegra wrote:

Fawks wrote:

I'm surprised with all these films about comic heros, they haven't implemented a Wonder Woman one yet. She has an interesting background and story. I enjoy stuff about Gods and Goddesses, and utopias and such. They need to span their audiences to females!

She's certainly the number one heroine out there, so I dunno why it's never happened. They've certainly been trying, though.

-Gary

Me too. Maybe she just goes unnoticed over the males, I mean, there seems to be a "surge" of hero flicks right now, I mean, "Thor", and "Green Lantern", "Captain America", "Green Hornet", and with the production of "The Dark Knight Rises". I mean, when it comes down to it, maybe Wonder Woman doesn't draw in enough attention for a movie, which is really sad to admit. I think it would be grand. It would definitely shed a different light on the hero world. She-Hulk's live action film was awful.. Golly..

Fawks wrote:

gallegra wrote:

Fawks wrote:

I'm surprised with all these films about comic heros, they haven't implemented a Wonder Woman one yet. She has an interesting background and story. I enjoy stuff about Gods and Goddesses, and utopias and such. They need to span their audiences to females!

She's certainly the number one heroine out there, so I dunno why it's never happened. They've certainly been trying, though.

-Gary

Me too. Maybe she just goes unnoticed over the males, I mean, there seems to be a "surge" of hero flicks right now, I mean, "Thor", and "Green Lantern", "Captain America", "Green Hornet", and with the production of "The Dark Knight Rises". I mean, when it comes down to it, maybe Wonder Woman doesn't draw in enough attention for a movie, which is really sad to admit. I think it would be grand. It would definitely shed a different light on the hero world. She-Hulk's live action film was awful.. Golly..

I didn't even know there WAS a She-Hulk movie haha.

Interestingly, I pulled up DC Entertainment on the good ole' IMDB Pro account, and here's the list for what they have in production;
Projects In Development (22 titles) Year MOVIE Meter Status
Adam Strange - Production Company 2013 143,816 Pitch
Aquaman - Production Company 2013 11,623 Unknown
Green Lantern 2 - Production Company 2013 18,245 Optioned property
Justice League: Mortal - Production Company 2013 5,971 Unknown
Lobo - Production Company 2013 76,255 Optioned property
Metal Men - Production Company 2013 109,296 Unknown
Teen Titans - Production Company 2013 26,058 Script
The Flash - Production Company 2013 6,782 Script
Wonder Woman - Production Company 2013 4,352 Unknown
Constantine 2 - Production Company 2012 10,035 Optioned property
Doc Savage - Production Company 2012 54,830 Script
Sgt. Rock - Production Company 2012 75,974 Script
Shazam - Production Company 2012 20,664 Script
Suicide Squad - Production Company 2012 145,971 Treatment/outline
Super Max - Production Company 2012 30,435 Script
Fables (TV series) - Production Company 2011 44,859 Unknown
Preacher - Production Company 2011 32,977 Script
Sleeper - Production Company 2011 105,942 Script
The Doom Patrol - Production Company 2011 138,993 Unknown
The Sandman (TV movie) - Production Company 2011 151,403 Optioned property
Wonder Woman (TV movie) - Production Company 2011 13,056 Optioned property
Y: The Last Man - Production Company 2011 23,537 Unknown

And they have Wonder Woman listed as an "Optioned Property" for 2013. Obviously, this isn't a perfect list as Y: The Last Man isn't coming out next year anymore, ut yeah...interesting stuff to ponder. But maybe this list should be on a separate thread haha. I think I'll post the list in the DC Universe thread, so we can talk about it there. But as far as WW's concerned, it's a neat point.

-Gary

Wow, that is a lot. I think the Suicide Squad would be amazing. But I think a lot of people would have problems with their name. Especially in my town. : /

I'm really amped for the future now! Isn't "Y" a Vertigo comic? I swear I have it somewhere..

Fawks wrote:

Isn't "Y" a Vertigo comic? I swear I have it somewhere..

Yeah, it's a Vertigo book. But Vertigo's a DC imprint, so it'd fall under DC for movie/tv rights and all that. It's basically a DC property in disguise...

-Gary

gallegra wrote:

Fawks wrote:

Isn't "Y" a Vertigo comic? I swear I have it somewhere..

Yeah, it's a Vertigo book. But Vertigo's a DC imprint, so it'd fall under DC for movie/tv rights and all that. It's basically a DC property in disguise...

-Gary

Ah. I didn't know that. But about that She-Hulk film, it was really terrible - and this is coming from a fan. The actress Brigitte Nielsen played as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk.
The make-up and costume was interesting as well as the bad 80's hair-do, but the movie was God awful. Hopefully a remake is not being debated.

The costume itself...it's alright. It's not exactly how I would design it, or how anyone with some sense of modern fashion might, but for the story they're trying to do--taking the Wonder Woman mythos and throwing it through a gritty, urban fantasy filter--it works.

What I'm more curious about is how they're going to change it up after this arc is over. When JMS got on the book and we found out about the costume change, he said pretty much bluntly that the whole purpose of this story is for Diana to find out her reality has been altered, and to find a way to try to fix things back to where they were before, and he talked about what would come back and what would stay in place.

What I think this thing is going to be is DC combining all the origins and mythos of Wonder Woman over the past 70 years and melding them together, along with some new ideas, and putting it in this context to surprise the casual comic fans and give them a fresh place to start.

Jay Kay wrote:

What I think this thing is going to be is DC combining all the origins and mythos of Wonder Woman over the past 70 years and melding them together, along with some new ideas, and putting it in this context to surprise the casual comic fans and give them a fresh place to start.

Really now? I think that's an awesome idea! I hope Donna Troy will be included! She's my favorite "Wonder Girl/Woman".
But Diana is alright.. But that outfit is going to be a mood killer. Haha. I see that new jacket of her's getting in the way. . .

Fawks wrote:

Jay Kay wrote:

What I think this thing is going to be is DC combining all the origins and mythos of Wonder Woman over the past 70 years and melding them together, along with some new ideas, and putting it in this context to surprise the casual comic fans and give them a fresh place to start.

Really now? I think that's an awesome idea! I hope Donna Troy will be included! She's my favorite "Wonder Girl/Woman".
But Diana is alright.. But that outfit is going to be a mood killer. Haha. I see that new jacket of her's getting in the way. . .

I believe the new scripter for the book, Phil Hester, has mentioned that when talking to fans on CBR's WW forum.

Jay Kay wrote:

What I think this thing is going to be is DC combining all the origins and mythos of Wonder Woman over the past 70 years and melding them together, along with some new ideas, and putting it in this context to surprise the casual comic fans and give them a fresh place to start.

That sounds like their MO lately, like Geoff Johns did with Superman.

-Gary

Well I picked up a Wonder Woman issue. I showed my boyfriend the new look Wonder has picked up and he didn't believe me that was Wonder Woman. I hope her outfit isn't a serious change. I really feel like I'm reading about a different heroine than Diana to be honest. The jacket and the jeans the most, have to go.

Fawks wrote:

Well I picked up a Wonder Woman issue. I showed my boyfriend the new look Wonder has picked up and he didn't believe me that was Wonder Woman. I hope her outfit isn't a serious change. I really feel like I'm reading about a different heroine than Diana to be honest. The jacket and the jeans the most, have to go.

To be honest, I'd be more upset at this point if it went away real fast. They need to make a change and stick with it...eventually, nobody will care anymore because that will just be the character. And either way, they definitely renewed interest in the book with the change, I'm sure.

-Gary

Fawks wrote:

Well I picked up a Wonder Woman issue. I showed my boyfriend the new look Wonder has picked up and he didn't believe me that was Wonder Woman. I hope her outfit isn't a serious change. I really feel like I'm reading about a different heroine than Diana to be honest. The jacket and the jeans the most, have to go.

I'm sure they'll tweak it after they finish the whole Odyssey thing, but I think, for the most part, it'll be similar. Like, they made way too big of a deal about the idea of Diana wearing pants that I doubt they'll lose them. I do see them turning the black leather into a more dark blue material and giving her the old red and white boots back--maybe putting the classic WW symbol on her instead of the smaller logo that's on now.