{"id":27838,"date":"2012-05-09T14:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T20:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/joss-whedon-and-superheroines.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:30:31","slug":"joss-whedon-and-superheroines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/joss-whedon-and-superheroines.html","title":{"rendered":"Joss Whedon and superheroines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That anyone&#39;s talking about a &quot;Black Widow&quot; movie <i>now<\/i> (vs., say, a year ago, when it would have been laughed out of Hollywood) is in itself astonishing and a tribute to Whedon&#39;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>So when will DC\/Warner bring back talks of a &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; movie, do you think?<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Flitreactor.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2Fcolumn%2Fheaders%2Favengers-scarjo-heroine-header.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/litreactor.com\/columns\/can-joss-whedon-save-the-superheroine'>Can Joss Whedon Save The Superheroine?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith Joss Whedon&#39;s powerful portrayal of Black Widow in &#39;The Avengers,&#39; is the creator of &#39;Buffy The Vampire Slayer&#39; the director that can save the superheroine?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FuFt5Mzs1dB' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That anyone&#39;s talking about a &quot;Black Widow&quot; movie now (vs., say, a year ago, when it would have been laughed out of Hollywood) is in itself astonishing and a tribute to Whedon&#39;s efforts. So when will DC\/Warner bring back talks of a &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; movie, do you think? Embedded Link Can Joss Whedon Save The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/joss-whedon-and-superheroines.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joss Whedon and superheroines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-unbearable-geekitude-of-joss-whedon.html","url_meta":{"origin":27838,"position":0},"title":"The Unbearable Geekitude of Joss Whedon","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-May-15 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing Avengers: Age of Ultron sounds both horrifying and deeply fulfilling. 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