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Wonder Woman Returns to TV?; A David E. Kelly Action-Drama?
Topic Started: Oct 1 2010, 08:18 PM (512 Views)
Nubia
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The Queen

Wonder Woman is back...as a TV series!
By James Hibberd and Borys Kit

Wonder Woman is heading back to the screen but instead of flying to movie theatres, the Amazon princess is returning to television.

Warner Bros. Television is developing a modern-day reboot of the classic DC comic book heroine and is lassoing an unlikely talent to potentially write and produce the superhero project: David E. Kelley, the showrunner behind legal dramas such as “Ally McBeal,” "Boston Legal" and "The Practice."

The development comes after nearly a decade of attempts by Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver to launch a big-screen version. Actresses ranging from Angelina Jolie to Beyonce Knowles to Megan Fox have thrown their hat in the ring for the starring role at one time or another.

In 2005, Warner Bros. announced Joss Whedon would write and direct the film adaptation. But Whedon said he never ended up being able to finish the draft, and two years later left the project (he's back in the superhero world, though, prepping "The Avengers" for a winter shoot).
"They just didn't like my take," Whedon said at the time. "It's pretty simple."

Any new "Wonder Woman" won't likely have an easy road to the small screen either.

Though the 1975-79 TV series starring Lynda Carter remains the most memorable version of the character in pop culture, major networks have struggled to make female-driven action series work beyond superhero shows work beyond NBC's "Heroes." One short-lived title, NBC's "Bionic Woman," which was likewise best known for its 1970s TV version, and could haunt attempts to get a series launch.

But if any place exists for a female-driven superhero series, it would be in TV land not film. While movies like “Daredevil” spin-off “Elektra,” starring Jennifer Garner, bombed on the big screen, the small-screen has been a more than willing home to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” a character which first failed as a movie, and “Alias,” the spy series which starred Garner.

Warner Bros. had no comment.
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Drew
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Olivia Munn for Wonder Woman.
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Casey
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Interesting.
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NavJLee8785
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Always the Panic Spreader

I could totally see Olivia Munn as Wonder Woman.
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Always the Panic Spreader

My friend, Carl DeGrazio works on that show as associate editor. He did the "Olivia MANN" sketch.
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I'm trying to think of what the Olivia MANN sketch was. Not the Lesbionic Woman thing?

I miss when AOTS used to be good, those shots at the end of throwing buckets of snakes on people ... fat suits, slip and slide injuries, skooter drag racing, etc. Where'd the fun go.
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Olivia MANN Parts 1 & 2



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Drew
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I loved this! I wonder how much shit they got in for "shit".

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I cant watch Olivia Mann cause comcast sucks!
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