Upcoming Movie: Wonder Woman (2007)

Release Date: Unknown; that will depend upon when (if) filming actually does get started. It will probably be in the summer of whatever year it's ready for.

Release Date Notes: (7/25/02) This will probably be a summer tentpole release of whatever year it's eventually slotted for; as of this writing, with it expected to follow Batman vs Superman, the earliest it's likely to be seen is in 2005 or later. (11/22/06) At one time, there had been reports that Warner Bros. was hoping to get this movie in theaters for the summer of 2007 (since they don't have a superhero movie yet for that summer, unlike 'Batman Begins' in 2005 and 'Superman Returns' in 2006), but that no longer looks likely.

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Production Company: Silver Pictures (The Matrix), Mandy Films (Leonard Goldberg; also developing Charlie's Angels 2: Halo)

Cast: None announced yet.

Cast Notes: (7/6/01) The current frontrunner for the role is Sandra Bullock. Producer Leonard Goldberg told Michael Fleming of Variety (5/1/01), "Sandy's interested, and we've met with her. It all depends on the script and director, of course, but she hasn't done anything this physical in a long time, and she'd like to. We'd love to have her." (6/5/02) I've seen some joking on movie message boards that lately, Jennifer Lopez seems to be taking the roles that Sandra Bullock turns down, and what do you know, Corona receives a tip that Lopez recently told MTV that she'd love to play Wonder Woman ("I kind of look like her right now"). I may have had my gripes with the idea of "Sandy" in the role, but Jennifer Lopez, I have no problem with. She could do it, sure. She might actually be an inspired choice. (11/22/06) The actress that seems to be getting a lot of rumors this year as a top contender to play Wonder Woman is "Lost" star Evangeline Lilly.

Director: Joss Whedon (Serenity, TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel")

Director Notes: (7/25/02) Michael Fleming of "Variety" reported this week that George Miller (The Road Warrior, Babe: Pig in the City, The Witches of Eastwick) is currently the top choice to sign on as director. (3/17/05) It's been officially announced that Joss Whedon will write and direct the film.

Screenwriter: Joss Whedon (Toy Story, Alien Resurection)

Screenwriter Note: (5/9/03) Todd Alcott (cowriter of Antz, 13 Ghosts) wrote the first draft, but it appeared that his script may not be used, when Becky Johnston ('Seven Years in Tibet') was hired to start over from scratch. Now, Comics2Film reports that Smallville writer Philip Leven has been hired to do a rewrite as well. (8/19/03) Comics2Film reports that Warner Bros. had decided to dump the previous drafts and have 'Birds of Prey' writer and executive producer Laeta Kalogridis start over from scratch. (3/17/05) Joss Whedon will most likely be the sole credited screenwriter.

Based Upon: The long-running and popular superheroine, as published by DC Comics. This will be the first feature film about her, although there was a flurry of activity on TV in the 1970's. First, Cathy Lee Crosby starred in a 1974 telefilm. A year later, Lynda Carter starred in another telefilm that placed Princess Diana in World War II (where she got her start in the comics), which became a popular TV series that aired in 1976-1979. 1977 brought a move from ABC to CBS, and a modern setting. Oh, and Debra Winger's career pretty much started with her supporting role as Wonder Girl in three episodes in season one. NBC was considering a new TV series in 1998, but scrapped it.

Premise: Presuming this film sticks fairly close to the origin of the comic books, this will be the story of Princess Diana, heiress to the throne of Paradise Island, a mythical island of amazons. Embued with amazing strength, both of character and physically, she travels into the world of men as Paradise Island's ambassador. Details other than that aren't yet (7/5/01) known. Hopefully, the origin will have more to do with the comic books that have been published for (most of) the last sixty years (since 1941), and not a TV show that ran for only four. Wonder Woman's "rogue gallery" is admittedly weak, so I would guess that Cheetah is probably the top contender to make the leap (haha) to this film. Or, keeping with the Amazon theme, maybe they'd use Artemis (more of an antagonist than a "villain").

Filming: (11/22/06) There is no production start date for this project. At this point, with the script still being worked on, the earliest it might start could be sometime in 2007.

Genre: Action, Eye Candy, Fantasy, Female, Superhero

Unofficial Character Fan Sites: ComicBookResources.com

Great Interview/Analysis: Washington Post (Talking to current Wonder Woman artist Phil Jimenez, this piece goes into incredible detail about the history of the character... a must read)

Official TV Series Site: SciFi.com

Rumor Controls: Comics2Film, SuperHeroHype.com

Script Review: Stax Report

Official Site: WonderWomantheMovie.com (probably won't be active until filming gets started, someday)

Status: In Development

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