WONDER WOMAN TV Series Back On Again at NBC
In the up and down world of entertainment business, a show is never truly dead. Each week in January fans have dealt with the roller coaster ride of DC's most iconic female superhero landing a deal.
As part of Warner Bros. plan to expand on its superhero library, a Wonder Woman television series was announced back in October. Since then we have had major announcements on The Dark Knight Rises and the new Superman movie in addition to a script being turned in for The Flash.
Earlier this month the series was shelved due to lack of interest but writer/producer David E. Kelley remained hopeful just a week later that
Deadline is now reporting that Greenblatt is committing to the project which does come with a hefty license fee due to the character and planned production budget.
NBC stepped up to greenlight Wonder Woman. The project is described as a reinvention of the iconic D.C. comic in which Wonder Woman -- aka Diana Prince -- is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.
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Upupandaway
Movies Editor
The guy was right. NBC's picking up a lot of interesting stuff with Greenblatt on board. I know some who are wary of a WW TV show, but I'm hoping the gamble pays off.
Phinehas
May this show die a thousand deaths! The synopsis is all wrong and severly departs from the spirit of what is WW.
Hamm3rtym3
NBC is not a good home for her. the last show they made was heroes.................
Mileena16
THIS! THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT A TV SHOW!!!! I WANT AN AMAZON!!!!! NOT A SUCCESSFUL CORPORATE EXECUTIVE MODERN WOMAN!!!!!!!!!
BAAAAAAAAAHHH
Boy October
THIS! THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT A TV SHOW!!!! I WANT AN AMAZON!!!!! NOT A SUCCESSFUL CORPORATE EXECUTIVE MODERN WOMAN!!!!!!!!!
BAAAAAAAAAHHH
Yeah..........this is gonna suck. I agree with you, Mileena. TV series is a bad idea.......unless it was on Showtime or something?
Hamm3rtym3
In all fairness, it doesnt say she is not going to be an Amazon, just that in her secret identity she is a successful business woman, which is what her day job was pon Justice League Unlimited
Phinehas
In all fairness, it doesnt say she is not going to be an Amazon, just that in her secret identity she is a successful business woman, which is what her day job was pon Justice League Unlimited
Yes. Its fair to say that. However, NBC has failed time and again to recapture some major properties they once had. If they don't respect what was loved by fans of earlier properties, how much more so a property and/or franchise that isn't theirs?
Heroes was mentioned, but remember the Bionic Woman? They will trash up the character because NBC will think it more relevant for today for characters to be a little seedy. There programming developers are absolute retards (most are, this isn't isolated to NBC only, yet it manifests well with them). Bear with me here; Jaime Sommers, the heroine of the show Bionic Woman, was a school teacher that had experienced a unrelated and unfortunate trauma from skydiving. She was a friend of Col. Steve Austin, astronaut, who suggested her to his organization to have her permanently damaged body "fixed." New show, she's a barkeep and a single mom. The reasons for her bionics were shady. There is nothing uplifting here. With no intended disrespect to single mom barmaids, but they aren't exactly the pillars of society, as opposed to say, a school teacher. Is anyone catching my drift here?
NBC will slum WW down in an effort to make her appear more gritty or "real." This is a poor premise. People don't turn to these characters to see their weaknesses. They turn it on to see their strength, and ability to overcome adversity (along with other lofty reasons). This WILL flop!
What's worse, many will tune into the show, because they will market the action/adventure aspect, along with the name WW. People WILL tune in, see its weakness, if only intuitively, and turn it back off. When WB/DC sees it flop on TV, my fear is that they will falsely surmise that it is because the character is too weak to translate, or too weak of a character to carry an audience, rather than see the weakness of the notion that adapting for TV is too small a medium for adequate treatment.
My two cents...
CrossTheGrigori
I think they made her a business woman in order to balance out that she dresses like a super slut. They want to press a respectable, female role model. If she comes from the island of gods and amazons, she would surely have taken some kind of treasure to start a new life in our society. If she REALLY wants to do some good, kicking a few criminal butts isn't going to cut it. Having a whole business and organization behind her could do it.
But yes... this isn't sounding like Wonder Woman. It's more like Batman. She's not a vigilante. She's an effing super hero. Chances are... this will suck... but there is always a chance it won't. A poorly worded comment about a show that hasn't even been produced can't tell us much.
I'll reserve judgement until I see a preview.
Phinehas
A poorly worded comment about a show that hasn't even been produced can't tell us much.
I'll reserve judgement until I see a preview.
While prudence is to reserve judgement. Its also to be skeptical. Especially when it comes to words like "reinvent." Poorly worded? An exec for a large corporation that presents ideas all the time is definitely careful in using his words. If this was a batman or superman based concept, they wouldn't use words like "Reinvent." No. Words like "explore" or "delve" would be used because fans would be in an uproar. If WW was worth her own salt, why would she be required to be "reinvented?" This is gonna suck.
gtrman
"...a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life."
Dead before it even springs to life. Good.
Hamm3rtym3
"...a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life."
So she is is now one of the sisters from Charmed?