# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/121 "2006-02-21T12:54:01Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > [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. Now that’s the woman I can get behind. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/122 "2006-02-21T13:21:29Z")
Joss Whedon has already demonstrated his musical chops, so I think the next Wonder Woman movie should be a musical. I hereby nominate Wayne Brady. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/123 "2006-02-21T14:51:17Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Joss Whedon has already demonstrated his musical chops, so I think the next Wonder Woman movie should be a musical. [It’s been done](http://www.elizabethwhitney.com/bpw.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/124 "2006-02-21T14:54:11Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > \ > I hereby nominate Wayne Brady. And you _know_ he’d do it. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/125 "2006-02-21T14:54:53Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Joss Whedon has already demonstrated his musical chops, so I think the next Wonder Woman movie should be a musical. > > I hereby nominate Wayne Brady. Joss has already said that he’s courting Morgan Freeman for the role. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/126 "2006-02-21T15:23:05Z")
Were it not for the fact that she likely couldn’t act her way through a wet paper napkin, I’d nominate statuesque brunette MSNBC anchorwoman [Contessa Brewer](http://public.fotki.com/Backrate/2004/contessa_brewer/). ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/127 "2006-02-21T15:55:52Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > No, no, no–it’s a face with character. five times more interesting than the pop-culture smooth-faced, generic-featured bimbo-of-the-moment. Get serious, she looks like Margaret Hamilton’s [not quite so ugly sister](http://ddgryphon.tripod.com/images/margaret-claudia.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/128 "2006-02-22T21:45:32Z")
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**Author:** ![Available\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Available\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Available_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/129 "2006-02-23T02:42:22Z")
Gentlemen (and ladies), I give you… Julie Strain! [http://users3.ev1.net/~dukeofdeception/WWas/WWasJulieStrain04.jpg](http://users3.ev1.net/~dukeofdeception/WWas/WWasJulieStrain04.jpg) ---
**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 23, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/130 "2006-02-23T02:46:41Z")
> [@Available Jones](#): > > Gentlemen (and ladies), I give you… > > Julie Strain! > > [http://users3.ev1.net/~dukeofdeception/WWas/WWasJulieStrain04.jpg](http://users3.ev1.net/~dukeofdeception/WWas/WWasJulieStrain04.jpg) At least ten years too old (I believe she’s currently 44). Still sexy and hot, but she’d be much better-suited for playing Barda (Mister Miracle’s wife), or perhaps even She-Hulk if she bulked up some. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/131 "2006-02-23T07:00:32Z")
> [@marymargaret](#): > > Salma Hayek may be a good choice. Good casting Case Sensitive! I think she’d be an obvious candidate: looks, curves, acting chops, curves, attitude, curves, presence, curves - she’d snap any emaciated TV starlet _du jour_ like a twig. And she has curves. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/132 "2006-02-23T08:43:23Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I think she’d be an obvious candidate: looks, curves, acting chops, curves, attitude, curves, presence, curves - she’d snap any emaciated TV starlet _du jour_ like a twig. And she has curves. Well, overall I’d agree, except [she’s _really_ short](http://www.allmovieportal.com/c/salmahayek.html). And she’s nearly 40. She could pass for much younger, but early twenties? I dunno… ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/133 "2006-02-23T11:55:55Z")
Maybe I missed it, but with all the Whedon fans here, I can’t believe that no one thought of Electro-Gwen! [Alexa Davalos](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/scrapbook/60/Sbk/60/60341_1_2.JPG?path=pgallery&path_key=Davalos,%20Alexa) looks the part, knows her way around a fight scene, and is sufficiently unknown as to not be a distraction (because I agree that you can’t cast a “name” actress as WW). ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/134 "2006-02-23T12:37:17Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Maybe I missed it, but with all the Whedon fans here, I can’t believe that no one thought of Electro-Gwen! [Alexa Davalos](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/scrapbook/60/Sbk/60/60341_1_2.JPG?path=pgallery&path_key=Davalos,%20Alexa) looks the part, knows her way around a fight scene, and is sufficiently unknown as to not be a distraction (because I agree that you can’t cast a “name” actress as WW). good call. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/135 "2006-02-23T18:36:33Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > good call. Wrong! DAMN good call – she’s 5’8" Greek and the right age. Plus, she can act. Hope she’s an option. If I were her agent I’d be on the phone to Joss day and night for a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/136 "2006-02-23T19:54:15Z")
Someone not yet mentioned… Carrie-Anne Moss Not a slam-dunk choice, and possibly too old, but worth considering. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/137 "2006-02-23T20:03:27Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > DAMN good call – she’s 5’8" Greek and the right age. Wellll . . . Amazons come from Greek mythology – but in that mythology, they were **not** Greek, they were a different nation entirely. Greeks probably would have expected them to be be pale and blonde or redhaired, like the Thracians or Scythians, not dark-haired or olive-skinned. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/138 "2006-02-23T20:53:42Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > I think she’s a great actress, but I have YET to get the lust after this woman. My goodness, she has a face like a hatchet! Yeah… a _sexy_ hatchet! ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/139 "2006-02-24T03:07:38Z")
How about [Anne Hathaway](http://goldenfiddle.com/wp-uploads/annehathaway.jpg)? She’s beautiful, appears young enough, and has, uh…[certain attributes](http://www.deansplanet.com/images/celebs/broads/anne_hathaway/anne_hathaway_breast-side.jpg)… necessary for the role. ---
**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 24, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109/140 "2006-02-24T04:50:15Z")
> [@Thalion](#): > > She’s beautiful, appears young enough, and has, uh…[certain attributes](http://www.deansplanet.com/images/celebs/broads/anne_hathaway/anne_hathaway_breast-side.jpg)… necessary for the role. She was the only two reasons I saw [Havoc](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285175/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-wonder-woman-movie-coming-in-2007-who-should-be-cast-as-wonder-woman/345109.md?page=8)