Mar 2 2006Joss Whedon on Wonder Woman

whedonwoman.jpgEmpire had the opportunity to talk to Joss Whedon about the future of Serenity and his progress on a Wonder Woman script. Because of its poor box office showing, he says, Serenity probably won't see a sequel for a while, if ever. Wonder Woman, on the other hand, is a work-in-progress:

I am still writing Wonder Woman. It is very awesome but incredibly unfinished, but I should be finishing that in a little while and then I'll have a better idea of which film is actually going into production. But I can tell you that the film will be about introducing you to Wonder Woman. She'll be wearing the outfit and there will be the bracelets, the golden lasso and Greek gods. She comes from a civilisation where she's rather perfect, so she's the opposite to Buffy in many ways, but she's going through an adolescent rite of passage because she's new to the world.

For me, the best news to come from the interview (besides that the script is "awesome") was that Wonder Woman will be wearing the outfit-- bracelets, lasso and all. To try to update it would not only disrespect the comic creators and piss-off comic fans, but also mess with a lot of my early sexual fantasies, many of which I still "use" today. Which is why I'm also campaigning for Wonder Woman to be played by my seventh grade teacher, Mrs. Dennison.

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Screw a Serenity sequel. I just want the Firefly show back.

here, here, Agony!

Come on, SciFi, Firefly is a goldmine!

Agreed. I would trade in Serenity for a continuation of the series any day. I'm glad the movie was made, but Joss really shines when he's writing for television. His ideas are too big for a 2-hour movie.

Any word or ideas on who will play Wonder Woman?

According to imdb.com, "many actresses are rumored to be in the running for the lead role in this movie, including Charisma Carpenter, Kim Basinger, Lucy Lawless, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sandra Bullock, Nadia Bjorlin, Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson and Jennifer Lopez."

Kim Basinger?! No way! She's 53 years old!

The ones who most look the part IMO are the ones I'm least familiar with; Charisma Carpenter, Michelle Rodriguez, and Nadia Bjorlin.

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