Wonder Woman might be a good fit for CW and something that can match up well with Nikita. I'm not a big fan of this version, but something reworked, would be cool beans.
Wonder Woman might be a good fit for CW and something that can match up well with Nikita. I'm not a big fan of this version, but something reworked, would be cool beans.
New small clip from the pilot:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/wonder-woman-video-has-diana-prince-battling-the-goon-squad
Does not look bad
and I really think that the costume looks better in motion than in the pictures.
Not many shots of WW in general, though.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/wonder-woman-video-has-diana-prince-battling-the-goon-squad
Does not look bad
and I really think that the costume looks better in motion than in the pictures.Not many shots of WW in general, though.
Heh, talk about Back Door Pilot. Imagine if they did clean it up, and released it direct to DVD, and it caught fire, sales were so good, they decided to pick it up for Series afterall
Same here. That actually did look a lot better than I expected, however brief the clip may have been.
I don't care that much about the costume -- what surprises me is the complete lack of any footage in which Palicki speaks. I'm more interested in how she wore the character than how she wore the clothes.
I was reading the CBR forums yesterday and some people there claimed that they have seen the entire pilot.
Apparently there is some kind of bootleg out there
Though, it might be in small circulation only, maybe among people who where making the pilot, I am not sure..
Though, It does still surprise me to hear all the comments that WW seems to be so difficult to do as live action
Why is that anyway?
I mean, the animated film was very good..and same rules apply in writing for live action show/movie.
I hope we see Wonder Woman in live action venture in the near future...maybe.
Apparently there is some kind of bootleg out there
Though, it might be in small circulation only, maybe among people who where making the pilot, I am not sure..
I hope not
Though, It does still surprise me to hear all the comments that WW seems to be so difficult to do as live action
Why is that anyway?
I mean, the animated film was very good..and same rules apply in writing for live action show/movie.
I hope we see Wonder Woman in live action venture in the near future...maybe.
^ Animated films don't have to reach as wide an audience as live-action movies or tv series. I have to wonder also if the apparent failure of Green Lantern will make it less likely that WB will step outside the comfort box of Batman and Superman movies.
Which would really suck. As much as I love Batman and Superman, it would be nice to see someone new up on the big screen. I'll admit I'm not real familiar with them yet, but from I do know I could see a WW or Flash movie being really good if they are done right. Just look at Marvel, they've been able to fairly successfully expand beyond Spiderman and X-Men pretty successfully.
There was a news report a few weeks ago that Warners has commissioned a Green Lantern 2, so I wouldn't say they're retreating. (Plus there's been some mutterings that the anti-3-D backlash might have played a role. The big indicator will be in how well the 2-D DVD/Blu-Ray (and 3-D Blu-ray) sells this fall.
As for animated films, the success of The Simpsons, Family Guy and King of the Hill (not to mention Archer) I think has pretty much proven as fallacy the idea that animated productions don't have mass appeal. Any one of the DCU animateds of the last few years, especially Wonder Woman and some of the Superman/Batman releases, could have done well in theatrical release given the proper marketing. DC and Warners, though, are a bit trapped in the "cartoons for kids" mentality and really underplay the fact these films regularly score PG-13 ratings and in fact Wonder Woman (which it's worth noting features a Diana every bit as violent and bloodthirsty as the David Kelley version) originally carried an R rating. Mass appeal for a DCU animated release only needs proper promotion: for example, when Mark Harmon voiced Superman for Apocalypse or whichever one that was, they could have run ads during NCIS. I think it's produced by a competing studio, but if the stars aligned properly, putting an ad for All-Star Superman on the Season 4 DVD release of Mad Men might have given the animated film, which co-starred Christina Hendricks as the voice of Lois Lane, a boost.
Alex
^ I didn't see they don't have wide appeal. I said that they don't have to reach as wide an audience as live-action movies, being generally cheaper to make. The DCU animated movies are a case in point; imagine how expensive they'd be to make live-action versions of the same spectacular stories and imagine how well they'd have to perform to make the money back.
I very much hope that there is a sequel to GL and that WB do indeed do movie versions of Wonder Woman, Flash etc; I do recall reading that there was talk of a sequel but the conspiracy theory was that this was just a way of getting sceptical would-be viewers into the cinema: 'Honestly, it's not that bad, it's not a flop, we're even making a sequel, look!'
I very much hope that there is a sequel to GL and that WB do indeed do movie versions of Wonder Woman, Flash etc; I do recall reading that there was talk of a sequel but the conspiracy theory was that this was just a way of getting sceptical would-be viewers into the cinema: 'Honestly, it's not that bad, it's not a flop, we're even making a sequel, look!'
^ Well, she's Maria Hill in The Avengers for Joss.
My understanding is that the DC Universe Original Animated Movies releases are specifically designed to get PG-13 ratings, which doesn't seem consistent with WB expecting them to be for kids. I mean, the advantage to direct-to-DVD is that they can aim for an older audience than they can on television. Also, as the "DC Universe" title indicates, the target audience for these DVDs is the comics-reading audience, and that consists primarily of teens and adults.
They commissioned a Superman Returns script as well and Singer was pushing it for the longest time. All the while everyone knew it was never going to happen and Returns fared better than GL, even if you add back in those development costs from failed attempts.
The indicators are already in, GL just didn't make the cut. I'd love to be wrong but DVD sales are not going to be some saving grace for the film.