[David]

She's miniscule. She could be someone's earring. Adam Hughes mentioned she was about as tall as he is when he's sitting in a chair.

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

Therefore, its my long concidered opinion that only a full blown, high quality computer animated version will suffice – especially in the cases of femuscular transformations.  The visual portion then presents no problem for the Amazon of Themiscyra and you only have to cast the voices to fit the characters.

Of course, this is only a suggestion – but one that I think presents the most happy medium possible.

A cgi Wonder Woman? No thanks, I'll pass.

[00tree]

I'd like to see Morena Baccarin (Inara from Firefly) as Princess Diana.

She definitely has the facial beauty and long curly black hair but she would need to seriously hit the weights for me to think
that she could even be considered. And as Masschine stated her height is somewhat lacking. I think Jessica Biel would do the character justice. Her build and performance in blade trinity was awesome.

[TC2]

Height does not matter, physique however does.

You can easily make a 4' 3' body builder woman look like a 50 ft giantess or even a 5'7" average height woman.  It's all on camera angles, technology, and how you place an actor in the scene.

Physique however, cannot be so easily duped.  Even if an artist "paints" muscles on an actor or actress you will immediately begin to see any fat they have the second they sit down.  Any actress they cast for the role needs to have the MUSCLE for it so that they don't need to use CG special effects to try to improve it, because it won't look real anyway.

Ignoring the height requirement, feel free to continue your casting.

Monica Bellucci is good but she needs some muscle mass if she's going to pull it off.

[Anonymous]

Monica Bellucci is good but she needs some muscle mass if she's going to pull it off.

Isn't she too old to be a comic book movie heroine (per Hollywood's ridiculous age bias)?

[TC2]

Too old?  Possibly, but that's why they have all the pros of Hollywood special effects working there.  😉

[AlexG]

Well, until then this type of fantasy will have to suffice . . . WW as played by Debbie Bramwell.  😎

Source: http://www.ftvideo.com/genex/FTVnews/FTVnews.htm

Tho, I still say a high quality, animated feature film would be the best route to take.  😉

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

[Anonymous]

Too old?  Possibly…

Don't get me wrong, I'm not using the phrase "too old" as a euphemism for "unattractive"–Bellucci is twenty different levels of fine! I'm thinking she's too mature–in the most honored sense of the word, to play what I presume would be a Wonder Woman new to "Man's World."

…but that's why they have all the pros of Hollywood special effects working there.

If we're gonna spend money to digitally de-age our physically mature beauties, we might as well make a CGI film!

Personally, I think a buff, black…Wonder Woman would rock.

If we replace all the white female characters with amazing Black actresses, we may never stop!

All the actress playing Wonder Woman needs to be is a brunette; fair-skinned (not alabaster); beautiful; in her twenties; and able to run, follow some fight choreography, and effectively use words with more than two syllables.

Anyone with anything bigger than a C-cup and a 120-125 pound jogger's muscles would be surplus to requirements. Casting a brown-skinned woman would be more likely if we were as color-blind as we wish to believe we are, but I think it would be a little sad somehow.

[David C. Matthews]

Personally, I think a buff, black (well, chocolate colored) Wonder Woman would rock.

A buff, black superheroine would rock; but personally I don't think it would make any more sense to cast a black actress as Wonder Woman than it would have made to cast a white actress as Storm in the X-Men movies. But if Whedon's WW movie is successful enough, someone should try to capitalize on its success by making a movie about a black superheroine (either an existing one – I know, not a lot of them around – or an original creation).

Although, come to think of it, I could see a buffed-up Halle Berry as WW…

[Anonymous]

…someone should try to capitalize on its success by making a movie about a black superheroine (either an existing one – I know, not a lot of them around…)

Actually, there are quite a few…

The Black Female Comics Character List: http://www.blacksuperhero.com/bsh/viewtopic.php?t=187

…although they're not all of the cape and cowl variety.

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