I HIGHLY recommend that animated movie! Aside from the Etta thing, it was a great intro to Diana's origin and just a wicked fun movie. Best of all, most of the creative team were women. So the writing felt real and the romance didn't eat up the plot or make me wanna gag.
As much as Wonder Woman deserves the exposure a live-action movie would bring, I don't think the odds of a theatrical WW movie being GOOD are very high. So I'm not sad that there isn't one in the pipeline. Casting would be really difficult because most working actresses (especially POPULAR actresses) are waifs. Wonder Woman needs to look like she could kick someone's ass and I can think of very few actresses who fit that bill.
Also, Hollywood sucks at writing movies for women. And the trend of making all superhero movies "gritty and dark" would clash with WW's campier origin story and outfit.
I'd love it if a great WW movie came along and proved me wrong. But I wont hold my breath.
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Date: 2012-08-17 08:18 am (UTC)As much as Wonder Woman deserves the exposure a live-action movie would bring, I don't think the odds of a theatrical WW movie being GOOD are very high. So I'm not sad that there isn't one in the pipeline.
Casting would be really difficult because most working actresses (especially POPULAR actresses) are waifs. Wonder Woman needs to look like she could kick someone's ass and I can think of very few actresses who fit that bill.
Also, Hollywood sucks at writing movies for women. And the trend of making all superhero movies "gritty and dark" would clash with WW's campier origin story and outfit.
I'd love it if a great WW movie came along and proved me wrong. But I wont hold my breath.