Failed Wonder Woman TV series Pilot

[MarsWeeps]

Adrianne Palicki (Agents of Shield) played the title role. I found a link for the failed TV Pilot, I haven't watched it yet but will watch soon, just to see why it failed. Link below. Also embedded separately, not sure what the proper procedure is for this.

Wonder Woman TV Pilot

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[Guy Gardener]

This message board is stacked with old people who might as well be Gods because of their collective and complete knowledge of the entire universe.

Promo shots of Adrianne as Wonder Woman were my PC wall paper for at least three months before this abortion came out online.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Adrianne Palicki (Agents of Shield) played the title role. I found a link for the failed TV Pilot, I haven't watched it yet but will watch soon, just to see why it failed. Link below. Also embedded separately, not sure what the proper procedure is for this.

Wonder Woman TV Pilot

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That was absolutely horrible, and Palicki has the shape of some sloppy couch potato. She needed the Total Gym / Boflex...everything.

Aside from the success of the Lynda Carter series, Wonder Woman has been a property battered with misguided handling.

In 1967, Batman producer William Dozier thought he would turn another DC superhero into a TV series. Only this time, it would be a total farce, as seen in this presentation film created for ABC brass--

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You can see why this did not sell. Actress Ellie Wood Walker was horrifying in that outfit beyond the attempt to be funny.

Then, there's the 1974 TV movie with square-jawed Cathy Lee Crosby as Wonder Woman--who was more secret agent than superhero--sort of like the non-powered "Diana Prince" / martial artist phase of the comic (1968-73). Here's a clip from that--

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Considering the two earlier attempts, it is no surprise the largely faithful Carter version was so well received.

 

[Commander Richard]

Saw this when it first came out. Out of her three identities, Diana Themyscira was by far the most interesting, Wonder Woman less so and Diana Prince seemed totally pointless. I wouldn't have minded seeing it go to series though. And I'm surprised that they couldn't do better with the costume.

 

[Forbin]

I was quite in love with Kathy Lee Crosby at the time, so even if that iteration had little or nothing to do with the comic, I enjoyed it. Anybody else get "One Woman" Magazine back then?

 

[JD]

I am tempted to watch the Adrianne Palicki WW pilot, just to see if it was actually as bad as it sounded. At least both Palicki and Diana seem to have recovered OK, with Palicki on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Most Wanted and the Wonder Woman movie coming out next year.

 

[Jedi_Master]

I don't know if Adrianne Palicki could ever carry an entire series on her shoulder. I don't think of her as being capable of being anything more than a very capable member of a larger ensemble cast.

 

[lurok]

That pilot was shite.
(though to be fair, the leaked copy had the non-removed wires, etc so probably added to overall crappiness)

 

[Admiral2]

The biggest problem with the 2011 pilot was that the it was done by the guy who created Ally McBeal. All that was missing was the dancing Wonder Baby.

 

[dahj]

and Diana seem to have recovered OK.

It was never aired, so she had nothing to recover from

 

[Guy Gardener]

David E Kelly has done some damn fine work over the years, but he must have been drunk the whole time he was making Wonder Woman.

 

[kirk55555]

I "like" the scene when

Spoiler: Wonder Woman pilot

Wonder Woman just goes all Punisher on the bad guys, throwing a metal tube into someone and (I think) killing a few others as she goes.

Between that and the fact that the out of costume stuff was also very out of character, I think that the WW pilot might be the worst interpretation of a mainstream superhero I've ever seen, or at least close to the worst (and definitely the worst Wonder Woman ever). If nothing else, the upcoming movie version is guaranteed to be better then that.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A cosmetics company hires 30 WWE wrestlers in perpetuity to guard a microchip with a secret spread sheet listing all their ne'er do wellings, on the off chance that Wonder Woman might show up?

Wouldn't it be easier just to not sell deadly poison as makeup?

Wait, am I conflating this clusterfrakk with that other clusterfrakk Catwoman?

 

[Dream]

Do we REALLY need a new topic just to trash a 5 year old unaired pilot that most people will never see? Yikes!

 

[Guy Gardener]

There is a link to the full episode in the first post.

The only barrier between you watching and not watching Wonder Woman right now is selfrespect.

 

[JD]

It was never aired, so she had nothing to recover from

The fact that it wasn't picked up could have been enough to damage her reputation so badly that nobody in Hollywood would have wanted to do anything with the character.
I wouldn't put it past the suits to decide that since this one pilot wasn't picked up that character couldn't be successful in modern movies and/or TV.

 

[DarKush]

I saw this a long time ago. I did like Elizabeth Hurley as Veronica Cale. And Palicki had potential, but she was saddled with a terrible costume and a bad interpretation of Wonder Woman.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was pissed off by the visible jet in the pilot.

There's a new Wonder-Woman-like character on The Venture Bros, and she TOTALLY has an invisible jet.

And in the Justice League Lego movie that came out last week, the team is playing hide and go seek, so Cyborg hides in Wonder Woman's invisible jet, and then gets into a hissyfit about how Superman shouldn't use his X-ray Vision when playing hide and go seek.

"But Cyborg,YOU don't become invisible when you hide in Wonder Woman's Invisible jet."

Okay here's the weird sexist thing that happened with Lego Wonder Woman.

She is lego shaped, like all the men lego, but it was thought necessary that she still needed an hour glass figure from the 1940s definition of perfection, so they painted the AIR behind her onto her torso so that she appears more shapely.