Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have found their man for “Wonder Woman,” tapping “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss WhedonJoss Whedon to write and direct.
Joel Silver and Leonard Goldberg will produce the live-action feature, based on the DC Comics character created by William Moulton Marston. No start date has been set.
I am very, very interested on seeing Joss’ take on this character.
(via the Beat)
UPDATE: Much better article here.
“Wonder Woman is the most iconic female heroine of our time, but in a way, no one has met her yet,” Whedon said. “What I love most about icons is finding out what’s behind them, exploring the price of their power. When Joel and I began discussing the character, I realized there is a woman behind the legend who is very fascinating, very uncompromising, and in her own way, almost vulnerable. She’s someone who doesn’t belong in this world, and since everyone I know feels that way about themselves, the character clicked for me.”
Sounds very Whedonesque. Cool.
And the teaser pic is a drawing by Adam Hughes (AH!), who’s done some of the best WW covers in recent history.
(via Doyce, natch)
More linky (and graphic) goodness now updated above.
I guess Joss Whedon never read George Perez’s excellent work on Wonder Woman following the Crisis. Perez addressed all of what Whedon’s talking about, and more.
Perez addressed some of it, certainly. Other writers have addressed other bits of it. Given the long history of the character, and some of the fine writers on the title, it would be amazing if anything so fundamental about WW were actually “discovered” by Whedon.
On the other hand, from a mass media perspective, anything other than Lynda Carter will be new and innovative.
Wasn’t Cathy Lee Crosby innovative enough fer ya?
A promising interview on MTV, including mention of the Perez era.