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News Berlanti Prod. developing "Wonder Girl" TV show for The CW

Kai "the spy"

Kai "the spy"

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'Wonder Girl' TV Series With Latina Lead From Dailyn Rodriguez & Berlanti Productions In Works At The CW

The network is developing Wonder Girl, a drama series based on the DC characters created by Joëlle Jones. It hails from Queen of the South executive producer/co-showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez and Berlanti Productions.

born of an Amazonian Warrior and a Brazilian River God, learns that she is Wonder Girl. With her newfound power must fight the evil forces that would seek to destroy the world.

That was fast. The version they are using will be introduced in the upcoming DC Future State event in January. It hasn't even come out yet. Probably has been in development when Dan Didio was still in charge at DC and the event Future State was still the upcoming new status quo relaunch G5.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Probably has been in development when Dan Didio was still in charge at DC and the event Future State was still the upcoming new status quo relaunch G5.
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Yes, she was supposed to be the new Wonder Woman for real, but now it's just for two months, so they got sold a bit of a lemon.
 
Even though the character hasn't even been introduced in the comics, WB is already working on a new CW series featuring Yara Flora, the new Wonder Woman being introduced in next year's Future State DC Comics event. Unlike the comics, the character will be using the Wonder Girl identity, rather than Wonder Woman in the series.
Here's how Io9 describes the series:
In the show, Yara will be a Brazilian dreamer, the child of an Amazon and a Brazilian Water God who emigrated to America. Learning of her divine heritage, Yara takes on the mantle of Wonder Girl, using her abilities to confront threats to the entire world.
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This is very unexpected news, I guess they must be pretty confident in the character if they are already giving her a show.
 
Ooops, looks like Kai the Spy started a thread while I was working on this one. If a mod wants to merge or lock my thread go ahead.
 
Oh, that would explain why they were so quick to start the series.
 
The description vaguely reminds me of the Stan Lee reimagines the Justice League "Just Imagine... Wonder Woman" version.
 
CW will just green light anything right now. Too bad it's not any of the dozens of good DC properties, just a bunch of weird stuff.

Knowing CW, this will probably be even worse than that Wonder Woman tv pilot, and if you saw that pilot you'd know that to be worse would be pretty impressive.
 
kirk55555 said:
CW will just green light anything right now. Too bad it's not any of the dozens of good DC properties, just a bunch of weird stuff.

Knowing CW, this will probably be even worse than that Wonder Woman tv pilot, and if you saw that pilot you'd know that to be worse would be pretty impressive.
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Do you really need to keep reminding us in every DC thread how much you hate everything?
 
My big question right now is if Diana exists is going to exist in the series or not.
 
StCoop said:
The ones with white men as the main characters?
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of my top 10 DC heroes, I don't even know if half of them are men. Just off top my head, although i guess it wouldn't work because it would compete with Batwoman and the in name only movie character, I'd love to see a CW Show with the comic accurate version of the Cassandra Cain Batgirl.

Some other DC shows I'd like to see that don't star white men (and could work on a CW budget and not step on any movies toes):

Power Girl
Hawk and Dove ( the Version with Dawn and Holly Granger)
Huntress
Static Shock
Blue Beetle (Reyes version)
Martian Manhunter spinoff
Katana spinoff (or maybe a new version unconnected to Arrow)
Vixen spinoff
Madame Xanadu (based on the comics, I think there was a version of her in swamp thing but it was in name only)

I could go on, but I think I've made my point. Don't bring up stupid shit that you have no evidence of me ever saying and no reason to accuse me of thinking. the one thing I've always supported with the CW DC shows are their diversity, in race, gender, sexuality, etc.
 
If she's part Amazon and from Brazil, does that mean there are Amazons in the Amazon?
 
The relatively recent Wonder Woman Annual #4 actually introduced a secret Amazon city in South America. They hinted at the backstory of it, but haven't followed up on it yet.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Well, we know from LoT that Themiscyra exists on Earth-1. Or, at least, existed pre-Crisis, just to satisfy Christopher.
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Huh? I think you're confusing me with someone else. As I see it, the whole point of Oliver's reset was to restore everything. I'm not one of those people who assumes that pre-Crisis things don't exist anymore unless we're explicitly shown them; I presume the opposite, that they were restored unless we're shown otherwise. Earth-Prime is an amalgam of Earth-1, Earth-38, and Earth-BL, so I presume that anything story-relevant from any of those worlds is present on Earth-Prime.


JD said:
If she's part Amazon and from Brazil, does that mean there are Amazons in the Amazon?
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Oh, I wonder if that was part of their inspiration in creating the character.
 
Christopher said:
Huh? I think you're confusing me with someone else. As I see it, the whole point of Oliver's reset was to restore everything. I'm not one of those people who assumes that pre-Crisis things don't exist anymore unless we're explicitly shown them; I presume the opposite, that they were restored unless we're shown otherwise. Earth-Prime is an amalgam of Earth-1, Earth-38, and Earth-BL, so I presume that anything story-relevant from any of those worlds is present on Earth-Prime.
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Okay, I actually might be mistaking you with somebody else, because I actually thought you were exactly one of those people. If I have been misremembering it, I'm sorry for the misattributed jab. But I'm not misremembering completely, there is some regular poster who is exactly like that, isn't there?

JD said:
Could that have been set up for Yara?
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Pretty sure it was. Obviously, development of the character has been going on for a while.
 
Yara is going to debut as Wonder Woman in Future State, so it makes me wonder how the character came to the attention of Dailyn Rodriguez and how she came up with the premise for this 'Wonder Girl' series.
 
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