# New Wonder Woman movie coming in 2007 - Who should be cast as Wonder Woman? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109 "2006-02-18T18:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/41 "2006-02-19T02:43:26Z")
[Nikki Cox](http://www.cassiel.net/Galleries3/Singers_Act/pages/Nikki_Cox_1.htm) has needed a role to make her name outside of television for a long time and Wonder Woman could be it. Physically she’s an, er, imposing specimen. She’s also tall enough at 5’7", beautiful, intelligent, and she can act. Plus she’s a poster child for future posters. The kind you can hang on a wall, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/42 "2006-02-19T02:54:56Z")
[Anna Faris](http://www.castlerock.it/dbimg/medium/gallery2294.jpg), anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/43 "2006-02-19T03:38:58Z")
First off, I don’t think casting actors from previous works is necessarily gimmick casting. It’s one of my favorite things about Robert Rodriguez and Sergio Leone (not that Rodruiguez is in anywhere near the same tier in my panthenon of directors of western movies as Sergio Leone is, but that’s beside the point 😃 ) That said, if we’re casting from Whedon alumni, how about the obvious yet unstated choice, and have [Sarah Michelle Gellar](http://www.geocities.com/superheroinewomen4/sarahmichellegellar/) reprise the role? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/44 "2006-02-19T03:42:12Z")
Venus Williams. A brother can dream. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/45 "2006-02-19T03:56:17Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > That said, if we’re casting from Whedon alumni, how about the obvious yet unstated choice, and have [Sarah Michelle Gellar](http://www.geocities.com/superheroinewomen4/sarahmichellegellar/) reprise the role? 😃 Too short… and by all accounts, too bitchy. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/46 "2006-02-19T04:10:05Z")
I am a child of the 70s. I am young enough to remember Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. I am old enough to know that’s not going to do it for me (and mine of the same generation) on the big screen. Diana needs to be represented by someone young, someone who looks as if she could be (vaguely) Brazilian (Amazonian). Ladies and gentlemen, I speak of no one else but: [Eva Mendes](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0386588/Ss/0386588/DF-04809.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Mendes,%20Eva). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/47 "2006-02-19T04:27:48Z")
[Jennifer Connelly](http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/img/human/jennifer-connelly/Striking/jennifer-connelly-002u3edit.jpg) - Wonder Woman should look good but she also needs to have some sense of presense. She shouldn’t just be a playmate with super-powers. And I agree with the consensus - I like Sandra Bullock but she’s a “girl next door” type not a super hero. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/48 "2006-02-19T04:36:03Z")
Jessica Alba ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/49 "2006-02-19T04:54:42Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > [Jennifer Connelly](http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/img/human/jennifer-connelly/Striking/jennifer-connelly-002u3edit.jpg) - Wonder Woman should look good but she also needs to have some sense of presense. She shouldn’t just be a playmate with super-powers. > > And I agree with the consensus - I like Sandra Bullock but she’s a “girl next door” type not a super hero. Okay, this is the first choice I’ve heard anywhere from anyone (including me) that I can support without reservation. I don’t know why I didn’t think of her, but she is nearly perfect for the project. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/50 "2006-02-19T05:09:18Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Okay, this is the first choice I’ve heard anywhere from anyone (including me) that I can support without reservation. I don’t know why I didn’t think of her, but she is nearly perfect for the project. Jennifer Connelly would have been _perfect_ 10 or 12 years ago, when she was younger and quite frankly The Most Beautiful, Sexy, And Perfect Woman In The World. See \*The Rocketeer \* and \*Career Opportunities \* if you don’t believe me. She’s still lovely, but realistically past the ideal age any producers would want to cast as Wonder Woman. And she’s so much skinnier now than she used to be, but she was so perfectly curvy and voluptuous in those earlier movies. What a damn shame. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/51 "2006-02-19T05:10:58Z")
I could see Baccarin or Connelly. Or maybe Rachel McLish—if she’s still in shape. And you dubbed her lines. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/52 "2006-02-19T05:23:40Z")
I agree with **ddgryphon**. Jennifer Connelly is the only name I’ve seen mentioned in any conversation on this topic that I would support without reservation. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/53 "2006-02-19T05:28:01Z")
Here’s the test. Imagine it’s a confrontation between Wonder Woman and Batman - not physical, just a battle of wills. So you’ve got Batman all glowering and dark and moody on one side. And here’s Wonder Woman on the other side. Now think of your suggested actress - could she stand up to Batman? Jennifer Connelly could. Now try to imagine Tiffany Fallon facing down Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/54 "2006-02-19T06:48:53Z")
Thinking outside the box a little bit… There is no reason to assume that an Amazon woman has to have a western looking ethnicity. I’m thinking someone a little more exotic. Someone who exudes an air of sexiness combined with menace. Someone who can be hot and scary at the same time. Someone like [Chiaki Kuriyama](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475752/)… AKA Go Go Yubari from _Kill Bill_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/55 "2006-02-19T06:51:44Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Thinking outside the box a little bit… > > There is no reason to assume that an Amazon woman has to have a western looking ethnicity. I’m thinking someone a little more exotic. Someone who exudes an air of sexiness combined with menace. Someone who can be hot and scary at the same time. > > Someone like [Chiaki Kuriyama](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475752/)… > > AKA Go Go Yubari from _Kill Bill_. Then what’s the point of making a Wonder Woman movie if you’re going to render the trademark property unrecognizable? This is why Catwoman sucked and Constantine was mediocre, because of all the liberties they took with the source material, beginning with casting the leads. I have to fervently disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/56 "2006-02-19T07:29:36Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Then what’s the point of making a Wonder Woman movie if you’re going to render the trademark property unrecognizable? Because Cathie Lee Crosby _nailed_ that audition! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/57 "2006-02-19T07:32:51Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Because Cathie Lee Crosby _nailed_ that audition! Ah, but they cast Ricardo Montalban and that more than maintained the Mediterranean Balance of the whole equation… ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/58 "2006-02-19T08:44:48Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Better Fran Dresher than either Sandra Bullock or Jennifer Lopez. Bullock is too old for the role and Lopez can’t act. Huh? Drescher is 49, Bullock is 42. [Rhona Mitra](http://users3.ev1.net/~dukeofdeception/WWas/WWasRhonaMitra01.jpg) gets my vote. [Hubba-Hubba](http://www.aahceleb.com/picture/rhonamitra_004.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/59 "2006-02-19T09:06:43Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > There is no reason to assume that an Amazon woman has to have a western looking ethnicity. I’m partial to Rosario Dawson, myself. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/60 "2006-02-19T09:16:38Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Lopez can’t act. Lawless could play it but she’s a little too old and I would think she’d want to avoid another woman warrior role. Seriously, have you ever seen Lopez act? If she’d never decided to become a popstar, she’d be highly respected as an actress. Have you seen _Out of Sight_? When I saw _Out of Sight_, Lopez became my favorite new actress for a while. She totally owns a nearly flawless movie. I groaned when she went into popstar mode, but mostly because I knew it would blow her credibility as an actress. It’s unfortunate that her records (bad as they are) sold so well, because most people assume that she rode their popularity to a few movie roles. But the reverse is actually the case. She established her bonafides as an actor well before she did the cheesy music thing. She’s definitely chosen some bad roles since then; she rarely anymore does anything that I want to see. But to say she “can’t act” is just silly. And re: Lucy Lawless: would think she’d lunge headfirst at any major movie role, especially a vehicle like WW. I just can’t see her going, “No, thank you; I’m waiting for a remake of _Long Day’s Journey Into Night_.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109.md?page=4)