"Amazon" - A Wonder Woman show in development at the CW
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A good year of gossip was spent on watching David E. Kelley develop, write and produce a pilot for a Wonder Woman TV show that got no further than an unaired pilot. It was, if nothing else, good sport.
So here we go again.
Vulture are reporting that the CW are developing Amazon, a new Wonder Woman show that could quite nicely compliment their Arrow.
The focus will be on a young Diana, just getting into gear with her Wondering. A Wonder Young Woman, p’raps.
The script is being written by Allan Heinberg, who has worked on The OC and Grey’s Anatomy. Another interesting choice, after the Boston Legal and Ally McBeal man last time around. Heinberg, though, has actual comics on his resume – he wrote Young Avengers and even a run of Wonder Woman, back in 2006.
Get ready for a whole lot more on this project if and when the pilot goes into production.
That's more like it. Don't just copy Marvel, take risks. Marvel own the big screen for now, dominate the small screen before Marvel beat you to that as well.
DC already has a good history on the small screen with Smallville lasting 10 years introducing people to lots of different parts of the DCU.
Exactly..and their time is almost up with the SHIELD series in the works.
DC need to go all out. Capture that magic of the comic universe with high budget TV series with much love thrown in.
Smallville was trash. It was just Charmed level TV with Supes thrown in as the plot medium. They need to stop doing this and understand that fans although may except shows like Smallville as accomplished representations of the mythos isn't simply enough to capture the wonder of the masses.
I wonder whatever happened to that Wonder Woman movie that was suppose to be released like a couple years ago.they had a trailer for it and everything.
Agreed with everything except I loved Smallville (with the exception of the last season).
Although I can see how it probably appealed more to the wider audience than hardcore fans. I know lots of guys and girls who were not not Superman fans but were really hooked on to that show.
But still it probably gave the most exposure of the DCU to the wider audience than any other medium has done in the last few years.
But yeah your right, they can't just rest after Smallville. They need to own the small screen at least. We all know they've lost the big screen battle in a landslide.
Doing characters for the live action small screen is virtually a guarantee they won't be coming to the big screen anytime soon. When was the last time someone was both on TV and in the movies? - Superman Returns. How well did that work?
I don't think that Justice League movie is really near on the horizon, seeing moves like this.
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After the last Christopher Reeve Superman film in 1987, we had 20-plus years of Superman-themed TV shows instead - Superboy (with John Haymes Newton), Lois & Clark (with Dean Cain) and Smallville (with Tom Welling), all while one purposed film after another fizzled.
The Gotham-set Birds Of Prey only happened in-between Batman films, between 1997 & 2005. I think the basic rule of thumb is if you're on live action TV, you're not on the big screen.
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Which is why I said recently. After all, until the 21st century there really weren't many superhero films. To blame television series for that seems to be a mistake. And Birds of Prey only had one season.
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