[Holiday]

I'm still hoping they'll cast someone who looks tall and has an athletic physique. Someone with a body like this:

but can really act the part.

[cpbell0033944]

It's understandable . . .  😉

And its on-topic for this forum, albeit there has been a rather lengthy thread concerning it, tho not added to since this past May '06.  So rather then have another start up again, I've merged your post into it and have bumped it up, too.   8)

Thankyou Alex.  Sorry that I missed this older discussion.
Oh, and y498yates – I agree with you.  If I'm sensible, I know that Jess doesn't quite look like WW facially (she's gorgeous, but not dark and brooding enough).  I therefore tend to lean towards Irina Molokova, who is, in my opinion, physically and facially perfect, but I don't think she speaks English, whereas Jelena does.  My point in rather mischievously posting photos of Jess and L**** is to show (as if I'm not already preaching to the converted) why having a stick insect actress as WW would be such a catastrophic mistake. ::)

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

The only way a woman who looks like the one pictured above gets cast is if she can act so, we all better hope/pray that they cast an actress willing to buff up.

[Holiday]

[glow=red,2,300]Joss Whedon is off the WW film![/glow]

SATIN TIGHTS NO LONGER. Joss will not be fighting for our rights after all.

You (hopefully) heard it here first: I'm no longer slated to make Wonder Woman. What? But how? My chest… so tight! Okay, stay calm and I'll explain as best I can. It's pretty complicated, so bear with me. I had a take on the film that, well, nobody liked. Hey, not that complicated.

Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that's never gonna work. Non-sympatico. It happens all the time. I don't think any of us expected it to this time, but it did. Everybody knows how long I was taking, what a struggle that script was, and though I felt good about what I was coming up with, it was never gonna be a simple slam-dunk. I like to think it rolled around the rim a little bit, but others may have differing views.

The worst thing that can happen in this scenario is that the studio just keeps hammering out changes and the writer falls into a horrible limbo of development. These guys had the clarity and grace to skip that part. So I'm a free man.

Well, sorta. There is that "Goners" movie I can finally finish polishing, and plenty of other things in the hopper I've wanted to pursue. I'm as relieved as I am disappointed, and both of those things lead to drink, so that's a plus. Truly, you may be hearing some interesting things brewing in the coming months. But all potential jets therein will be visible.

But most importantly, I never have to answer THAT question again!!!! And you don't have to link to every rumor site! Finally and forever: I never had an actress picked out, or even a consistant front-runner. I didn't have time to waste on casting when I was so busy air-balling on the script. (No! Rim! There was rim!) That's the greatest relief of all. I can do interviews again!

Thanks for your time. You are the people who make the world go 'round. Or, no, science does that.

[Lingster]

I am also disappointed and relieved.

[David]

I wouldn't be too relieved. Whedon is the one who kept saying that WW should be 'amazonic'. Producer Joel Silver is the one who wanted Sandra Bullock to star in it.

[cpbell0033944]

I wouldn't be too relieved. Whedon is the one who kept saying that WW should be 'amazonic'. Producer Joel Silver is the one who wanted Sandra Bullock to star in it.

Precisely.  And although the actress Whedon apparently favoured (Cobie Smulders) isn't particularly buff, she's not scrawny either, and, at 5'9", she could (with gym work) have been genuinely Amazonic.  They'll give the role to L****, see if I'm not right. :'( >:(

[Holiday]

Whedon never definitively expressed which actress he'd have chosen. It was a question he hated being asked when he was doing the script. One day it could have been Morena Baccarin, the next it might have been Charisma Carpenter, then Cobie Smulders… ::) I don't need this kind of suspense. He didn't deliver it. He COULDN'T deliver what WB wanted. Two years passed and that's enough to make me lose any confidence in him.

[Lingster]

You can't trust the rumors.  Hell, I started one about Katherine Heigl, just for shits and giggles, and then watched it ripple out across the blogosphere and even into newspapers.

[cpbell0033944]

Whedon never definitively expressed which actress he'd have chosen. It was a question he hated being asked when he was doing the script. One day it could have been Morena Baccarin, the next it might have been Charisma Carpenter, then Cobie Smulders… ::) I don't need this kind of suspense. He didn't deliver it. He COULDN'T deliver what WB wanted. Two years passed and that's enough to make me lose any confidence in him.

Come, come Holliday, you're doing the man down a bit here.  If he had serious differences with the way that Warner Brothers wanted the film to go, then there were bound to be differences.  What evidence do you have to state that he COULDN'T deliver?  If WB wanted some skinny teenybopper starlet to bring in the ratings, would you, in Whedon's position, go along with it without putting-up a fight?  I'd suggest that you wouldn't.  It's probably best that he's left, as a difference in opinion would only have affected the finished film.
Oh, and by the way, although in the main part of his message to his website, Whedon says that his priority had been script rather than casting, at the bottom, he writes:

ps All right, it was Cobie Smulders. Sorry, Cobes.

This says two things to me.  Firstly, it seems as though she was his first choice for the role.  Given her looks, apparent personality and intelligence, and her shapely (though not particularly muscular) and statuesque body, I'd say she was a good pick (especially if she could have been persuaded to hit the free weights).  Secondly, the way he says "Sorry, Cobes" suggests to me that he knows damn well that WB aren't going to give her the part.  Unfortunately, my gut instinct says that they favour Lohan (there, I plucked-up the courage to type her name properly).  If so, I think his decision and misgivings are PERFECTLY justified.

P.S. Fett – the WB bloke wants Bullock?  She's too old for the role, surely?!

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