She's available! :)
Posted on 02/03/2007 12:56:00 PM PST by JohnSheppard
Hollywood is an odd world and a cruel one at that as Joss Whedon has revealed on his blog that he is officially off the Wonder Woman project in all capacities, writing and directing.
Only days ago it was announced that Warner Bros. had just picked up a new script from virgin writers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland and it was said that they were just picking up the script to ensure there was no competition from other studios. Well, it seems that might not be all there was to it even though producer Joel Silver says he didn't plan on going the period route as the Jennison/Strickland script proposes.
On Whedon's blog he says, "You (hopefully) heard it here first: I'm no longer slated to make Wonder Woman." He then breaks it down quite simply, "I had a take on the film that, well, nobody liked." Doesn't get anymore blunt than that, interesting thing will be once this film actually does get made and if Joss makes his version of the film available in script form online.
Joss is extremely professional in his report and basically breaks it down as he and the studio didn't see eye-to-eye on the project and decided to part ways, very cool on his part. He also goes into the other film he has been working on and says that he "can finally finish polishing, and plenty of other things in the hopper." That film of course is Goners over at Universal Pictures, which is described as the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. Yeah, not a lot to go with, but I give you what I got.
(Excerpt) Read more at ropeofsilicon.com ...
Who's going to play Wonder Woman?
I read somewhere that the producers have meet with Jill Wagner (former star of Spike TV's short lived Blade series); there are also rumors of Sophia Bush or Morena Baccarin (Firefly, Stargate Atlantis). I don't think a decision has been made yet.
Too bad, I was looking forward to it. I'm a big fan of his (no I didn't watch every episode of Buffy...really...OK, I did, but only because I liked the special effects...stop looking at me like that...)
Formula for a Joss Whedon script: A troubled young girl, not taller than 5 ft 4in and weighing no more than 98 lbs, kicks the crap out of mobs of enormous, heavily armed oponents. Hilarity ensues.
She's available! :)
Yes....and I bet she'll STAY available as long as humans have eyes.
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