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In fact, I've never really gotten what's so difficult about a Wondy movie. Yeah, her post-Crisis origin story is intricate and mythological... that was the point. But the original Superman movie took, like, an hour before you got Christopher Reeve flying around in his Underoos. And Thor, c'mon, you can't tell me that isn't weirder than Wonder Woman could ever hope to be. I mean, Don Blake? Guy finds a cane, then he uses it to turn into Thor, but he actually is Thor?

Three sentences: The Greek Gods created the Amazons to protect mankind. Out of hate and fear, mankind turned on them and the Amazons went into exile. Now, Diana ends that isolation by becoming a hero in the outside word, working to both protect humanity and to better it.

You don't really have to get into her being made of clay or Hercules or the Bana, at least in a first movie. And you especially don't have to overcomplicate the story with secret identities and multiple love interests.

I guess the ironic part is that Wonder Woman could really use a movie to lay out her origin and appeal, the same way the Iron Man movie did, but won't get one because her story is so cluttered and the head of the WB won't make movies with female leads. They were really on the right track getting Joss Whedon to do his take on Wonder Woman (I know he's not too popular on my f-list, but at the very least, you can't tell me he would've written Princess Diana having a sleepover).

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[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I wonder if WB just doesn't know what they wanna do. Golden Age WW? Pre-crisis WW? Post Crisis? Or some new version all their own?

Looking at the TV plot it was like they were trying to merge several versions AND the modern Power Girl.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

I can tell you that if he did, he would find some way to turn it into a masterpiece of feminism.