[MaxxC]

This is no child of a god. She is merely human looking. I can smear her at the bottom of my paw (In character that is.)

Business always trumps genuine.

[Paul Schilling]

The costume looks a hell better then previous but I still think it needs straps to hold it up, and I was thinking they need to get rid of the new Secret identity of Diana Themyscaria and just advance the charactor of Diana Prince… Then again they made money with Sybil.

[FlakBait]

Still a bit miffed about the long pants our Amazon princess will be wearing in NBC’s new upcoming Wonder Woman TV series? Secretly hoped she’d instead be wearing those short shorts Lynda Carter iconically rocked in the mid-’70s? If so, you’re about to get your wish.

That’s what NBC president Robert Greenblatt revealed to TV Line when he spoke about the strong fan outcry sparked over the long pants Wonder Woman’s (Adrianne Palicki) been wearing in all the pics we’ve seen until now.

“There was an initial outcry about the long pants – you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts [worn by Lynda Carter in the original TV series]. But the shorts were always planned. They are actually used in the final confrontation when she beats Veronica Cale (played by Elizabeth Hurley).”

http://blastr.com/2011/04/new-wonder-woman-will-wea.php

so she’s gonna have 3 identities and two costumes now? great….

[luvemhuge5699]

actually she will be wearing all 3 outfits. http://www.tvline.com/2011/04/nbc-wonder-woman-third-costume/

[FlakBait]

We’ve been skeptical about the new Wonder Woman reboot ever since we learned her re-envisioned character was more Ally McBeal and less goddess-blessed warrior woman. But now we have reason to be a little more optimistic—because there could very well be an appearance by former Wonder Woman Lynda Carter.

Carter, who played Diana from 1975 to 1979, has been speaking with the new show’s creator, David E. Kelley. According to Monsters and Critics, Carter said:

‘I’ve talked to David E. Kelley, who’s a brilliant writer, a number of times and we’re hoping to plan something,’ she said. ‘But I cannot reveal.’

An obvious role would be Hippolyta, Diana’s mother and queen of Themyscira. The DC Comics wiki writes that Hippolyta also took on the role of Wonder Woman first as the “new Golden Age Wonder Woman” and again as a backup Wonder Woman before she died in the “Our Worlds at War” cycle.

Carter herself would be welcome, and not just for the sake of nostalgia: She’s still a defender of the defender of freedom. A few months ago, she gave actress Megan Fox a public smack-down for trashing Wonder Woman.

http://blastr.com/2011/04/1st-wonder-woman-lynda-ca.php

[FlakBait]

Wonder Woman pilot script rewrites make her more badass… sort of

When David E. Kelley’s draft pilot script for Wonder Woman leaked online, the early reaction was not kind, to say the least. The script included lots of Diana crying, moping over ice cream, and hunching in a fetal position.

But since that draft, which was dated December 2010, there have been a ton of rewrites on Kelley’s script. And at least some of them seem to have been aimed at making Diana more of a formidable ass-kicker. We read the new pages, and here’s what’s different.

We got a hold of a bunch of Wonder Woman pages that were released for casting purposes, including some new revised pages released in February and March, as the pilot was shooting. A lot of the additions seem focused on making Diana seem more formidable, to head off criticisms that she’s too weepy and self-pitying. (It’s also possible the episode was bumped up from a one-hour to a two-hour pilot.) Here are some of the changes.

Spoilers ahead…

Random scenes where she lifts guys by their throats

There seem to be a bunch of these, that were added just so we could see Diana throwing her weight (so to speak) around. At one point, she confronts a pair of security guards, whom the script calls Frick and Frack. They tell her she can’t go up to the roof of a hospital, and she says, “I’m Wonder Woman. How do you think this ends?” And then she lifts one of them into the air by the throat and the other one by the chest, until they admit they’re goons working for her nemesis, Veronica Cale.

There’s also a hilarious scene where Diana is driving, and a male driver cuts her off in traffic and makes an obscene gesture. She gives him the finger, and he pulls in front of her, blocking her. They both get out of their cars, and he says his obscene gesture was “implying something that might be good for her.” He grabs her arm and says, “Maybe I should teach you some manners.”

Diana keeps saying things like, “Let go of me, sir” and “I’ll ask you again to remove your hand.” But he responds that he’ll let go of her arm when he feels like it, and calls her a “Prada bitch.” So she lifts him into the air by his throat.

As far as I can tell neither of these scenes advances the plot, they just let us see Wonder Woman lifting guys by their throats.

A beefed up final battle

Without giving any real spoilers, the final fight scene is beefed up considerably in the revised script. The dialogue is also revised to make it clear that the people Wonder Woman is fighting are prepared to use deadly force to stop her.

And the actual fight scene is a lot longer and more detailed — at one point, the December 2010 draft just says “A SERIES OF FAST CLOSE UP CUTS — LEGS, ARMS… DIFFICULT TO TELL WHO’S WINNING AND WHO’S LOSING.” But the revised version dispenses with that ambiguity and gets down and dirty. A whole new sequence is added where one bad guy gets a knife to Wonder Woman’s throat, and she jams her thumb into his eye. Another guy, she deals with by getting on her back and using both legs to kick him into the air. The final bad guy chooses to surrender, so she knocks him out.

Wonder Woman’s motivations get fleshed out

The original pilot script starts with a young African American man, Willis, finding out he’s been accepted to college — and then keeling over with blood coming out of all his openings on his face because he was given some harmful experimental steroids. I’m pretty sure we never see Willis again in the December 2010 draft. But in the revised version, Wonder Woman goes to visit him in the hospital, and spends a lot of time with him — even promising to give him a ride in her plane if he gets better. And she convinces Willis’ mother not to seek vengeance on the people who did this to her son, because the mom has other kids who need her. Getting vengeance is Wonder Woman’s job, instead.

Plus other stuff

The above stuff is all the last-minute revisions that were pushed through while the pilot was already filming — but here are some other revisions that seem to have been made prior to filming.

In the new version, we also see Wonder Woman pull Steve Trevor out of a burning airplane when he crashes on Paradise Island. (In a flashback, of course.) One of the other Amazons, Artemis, says it’s too dangerous to go into the burning airplane, but Diana does it anyway. And the relationship between Steve and Diana seems more fleshed out, with it being even clearer that they still have the hots for each other.

And in the revised version, we meet Diana’s neighbor, William Marston — yes, named after her creator — who finds her cat, Robin, which has bitten him. So to make it up to William Marston, Diana goes out on a date with him — which ends badly, after William tells Diana he thinks Wonder Woman is a fascist. Ouch. Diana says, “This woman spends her whole life fighting for justice, and the idea that people think of her as a Fascist…” She is now glad that her cat bit this guy.

http://ca.io9.com/5794115/wonder-woman-pilot-script-rewrites-make-her-more-badass-sort-of

Kinda reminds me of those desperate rewrites after that 2008 Knight Rider series NBC tried. Now TV Wonder Woman seems to hate necks just like comic book Wonder Woman :p

[Reason]

Sounds like they may have actually listened to the internet feedback. It really is a different era of television making. It’s just a pity we’re stuck with an emaciated runway model type for Wonder Woman. I still remember the stunt double being really hot. Would it be that hard to teach her to act?

[FlakBait]

Meh, slapping a patch on something that is terribly broken does not really accomplish much. This move reminds me of what NBC did after that terrible Knight Rider 2008 movie was released, 23 of it was just people driving somewhere so they retooled it for the first few episodes of the show and it still sucked so they retooled it again and it was still terrible…..except for sweet sweet Smith Cho :p

A broken concept is a broken concept.

[Holiday]

Geez. What’s with all this hate on Knight Rider? If people hate that series, they’re definitely going to hate a concept like Wonder Woman. Think about it – an Amazon Princess from a hidden island of immortal women dressed in a cheesy costume. Nothing about that is believable. So who is going to watch this stuff if not her fans?

[FlakBait]

Holiday wrote:

Geez. What’s with all this hate on Knight Rider? If people hate that series, they’re definitely going to hate a concept like Wonder Woman. Think about it – an Amazon Princess from a hidden island of immortal women dressed in a cheesy costume. Nothing about that is believable. So who is going to watch this stuff if not her fans?

Knight Rider was awesome, the new one sucked. A car that transformed into other cars, vans, pick up trucks not to mention the whole KARR that turned into a battlemech but needed a human brain to run itself…though Peter Cullen awesomeness was welcome. Viper handled it far better, well except for the hovercraft mode in season 4 :p

In this case broken concept refers to the shows concept itself. It has nothing to do with being believable or not, how many things on TV are? or comics themselves? 3 secret identities, Wonder Woman being all overly emotional and crying in a fetal position obsessed with an ex-boyfriend at least twice within a single hour long show. That’s not wonder woman.

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