[Zeartist]

Hollywood is filled with bastards who are unoriginal and moronic.  Case in point:  Little Man, Eragon and the Star Wars Prequels just ot name three.

But still…

Based on the way they cast their female roles they're not going to cast anyone whom we may want.  We would get lucky if it were Kate Beckinsale…and if that happens (and I were the director) I would want her to hit the gym hard.

Don't get your hopes up guys.

Jon

[Amazon Lover]

Well, arguably, Eragon was written by some 15-year-old in Montana.  The fact alone that he got his book turned into a movie is an impressive feat.

[AlexG]

Well, arguably, Eragon was written by some 15-year-old in Montana.  The fact alone that he got his book turned into a movie is an impressive feat.

Heh, and here I thought it was "lifted" from the Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey . . .  😉

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Grandmaster]

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

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.

I think that a talented individual like Whedon could have made a good film of WW, but, in general, I think it's difficult for studios to accept that you can't churn them out like the cliched romantic comedies that clutter the cinema screens these days…

Art: 0 Commerce: -1

Hence, the result is dross, unless it's animated.

There's a new JLA animation in production. Lucy Lawless voiced WW…

Hackneyed casting. (Which is not to say that Lawless isn't–aurally and otherwise–delectable.)

Surely a much better way of bringing Wonder Woman to the big screen, don't you think?

I really have absolutely no interest in seeing a transmogrified WW on the big screen. I want to see 140-or-so pounds of living, breathing (digitally recorded) raven-haired beauty!

Based on the way they cast their female roles they're not going to cast anyone whom we may want.  We would get lucky if it were Kate Beckinsale…

Don't get your hopes up guys.

Jon, I don't expect a much. I expect a brunette. I expect someone universally beautiful. I expect someone who can put sentences together. I concede the fact that WW will not have anything in the way of flexible muscle. I accept that. But the producers of a Wonder Woman film cannot…produce a waif and expect anyone (female muscle fan or detractor) not to laugh themselves out of the theater.

[Zeartist]

Well, arguably, Eragon was written by some 15-year-old in Montana.  The fact alone that he got his book turned into a movie is an impressive feat.

DO you know who funded his first publishing of Eragon?  His PARENTS.  Nothing impressive about what he's done and Hollywood was hoping to have another Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter frachise.

Jon

[cpbell0033944]

 
Art: 0 Commerce: -1

Hackneyed casting. (Which is not to say that Lawless isn't–aurally and otherwise–delectable.)

I really have absolutely no interest in seeing a transmogrified WW on the big screen. I want to see 140-or-so pounds of living, breathing (digitally recorded) raven-haired beauty!

Jon, I don't expect a much. I expect a brunette. I expect someone universally beautiful. I expect someone who can put sentences together. I concede the fact that WW will not have anything in the way of flexible muscle. I accept that. But the producers of a Wonder Woman film cannot…produce a waif and expect anyone (female muscle fan or detractor) not to laugh themselves out of the theater.

Grandmaster – I've got to say I tend to agree with you.  I'd love to see a living, breathing, talented muscle-babe as WW, but, as you say, it isn't going to happen.  I like the Art 0: Commerce -1 bit though!

[Holiday]

Hackneyed casting. (Which is not to say that Lawless isn't–aurally and otherwise–delectable.)

I really have absolutely no interest in seeing a transmogrified WW on the big screen. I want to see 140-or-so pounds of living, breathing (digitally recorded) raven-haired beauty!

Then you should be glad to know that JLA: New Frontier is a straight-to-video project and purely animated. The JLU cartoon did okay. No surprise since it's easier to believe in these heroes when they're animated.

[Holiday]

Based on the way they cast their female roles they're not going to cast anyone whom we may want.  We would get lucky if it were Kate Beckinsale…and if that happens (and I were the director) I would want her to hit the gym hard.

Don't get your hopes up guys.

Jon

Kate Beckinsale has signed up to do a movie adaption of "Whiteout". It's a comic mini-series by former WW writer, Greg Rucka. Filming starts as early as March 5th. Beckinsale's character is a U.S. Marshal hunting down a killer in Anarctica.

[Grandmaster]

Then you should be glad to know that JLA: New Frontier is a straight-to-video project and purely animated. The JLU cartoon did okay. No surprise since it's easier to believe in these heroes when they're animated.

For me, it's increasingly not (getting old?). It would help if we could see some DC-related animation that doesn't follow Bruce Timm or Butch Luckic's designs for a change, but that's up to the execs…

Beckinsale's character is a U.S. Marshal hunting down a killer in Anarctica.

She might be too pretty to play Carrie Stetko.

[Silent One]

Heh, and here I thought it was "lifted" from the Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey . . .  😉

I got the impression it was a direct rip-off of Star Wars but with dragons substituted for star ships.  Everything was there, farm boy, Obi Wan Kenobi figure, A raid into the Death Star (enemy castle) to save the princess, the force (dragon linked magic)  I hope the book was better than the movie.

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