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It might work, I suppose. But we’ll never find out. You know why?
Because they’ll never make the movie.
And I know that the latest buzz has the script portraying “a new story involving Paradise Island and her background.”
And they’ll still never make that movie.
It doesn’t matter what you or I think or want, or what other shows have attempted. It’s about major movie studios and major blockbuster films.
They won’t make that movie. They won’t sink $150 million into it. They won’t pitch it as the equal to Superman and Batman. Not gonna happen.
Wonder Woman will come from a race of beautiful women in cut-off chitons, true. But she’ll spend the rest of the time as Diana Prince battling evil in the patriarchal world. If the movie ever gets made. And she’ll have a love interest. Male.
In what world do you live in that this won’t come to pass? Obama ain’t going to change things that much!
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Dude. They made freakin’ Ghost Rider and ungodly stupid Man-Thing. For God’s sack, Howard the Duck got a movie!
Wonder Woman, from everything I’ve read and seen, is a conundrum. You should have an a-list female hero who isn’t a superman-with-boobs, but she’s got handicaps. No snappy origin story, hard to “connect” her to the average person as opposed to some others (space cop, urban vigilante, stranger in a strange land/ultimate immigrant), and her costume is just too “sexy” to be intimidating. All make her hard to write, from what I’ve seen. Yes, Simone did it, but she’s one in several that haven’t.
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Though really, DC would probably be wise to take a look at what Marvel is doing and go the path themselves instead of selling off the rights to Hollywood and hoping for the best.
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I imagine shareholders and/or higher-up folks within Time Warner wouldn’t be keen on a subdivision starting up its own movie production studio when they already have a whole division devoted to movies; if DC tried it, they’d probably be told to hand the reins over to Warner Bros. (IMO, the “synergies” of TW don’t help DC out much. The other branches of TW seem to have too much of a say in non-comics marketing of DC properties.)
Edited to add: I recall a story going 'round a while back that Ted Turner (when he was in the company) was trying to get the rights to some of DC’s heavy hitters like Superman and Batman taken away from the comics publisher and handed over to a different subdivision, explaining that DC wasn’t exploiting them as profitably as he believed they could be.
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Dude. They made freakin’ Ghost Rider and ungodly stupid Man-Thing. For God’s sack, Howard the Duck got a movie!
They’ll make the movie.
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Dude. In the first place they’ve been dithering about the movie for fifteen freakin’ years and absolutely nothing about it is in place today. Of course it’s iffy whether they’ll make the movie in any near future.
Numero two-o, we’re talking about whether the movie when finally made will be about goddess-worshipping lesbians or a conventional superhero slugfest. Read the freakin’ thread, dude.
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Dude. In the first place they’ve been dithering about the movie for fifteen freakin’ years and absolutely nothing about it is in place today. Of course it’s iffy whether they’ll make the movie in any near future.
Numero two-o, we’re talking about whether the movie when finally made will be about goddess-worshipping lesbians or a conventional superhero slugfest. Read the freakin’ thread, dude.
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I did read the thread. And your post, that I was replying to, was attempting to make the case that the WW movie wouldn’t get made because it could be about goddess-worshipping lesbians. “Hollywood” has signed off on stupider movie ideas than that. (hell, they’d probably consider any lesbian subtext or even text to be a selling point).
There’s basically been no discussion (here) about the long time WW has been in development, but Hollywood is frantic to exploit comic book stuff right now. Marvel has gone all out to market their properties. There is interest in a number of DC properties, as well (although DC seems less than apt at this).
Whether or not it is Sapphic goddess hijinks, or superheroine slugfestivity, and regardless of how long it has been in development, even if it ends up being directed by Uwe Boll, there will be a WW movie. Which was my point.
And outside of your imagination, who’s disputing that particular point? Certainly not me. (The timing of the movie is suspect right now. But I never said it would never be made. Read my freakin’ posts, dude.)