Carla Gugino's too old? How old is the character supposed to be?
How about Lake Bell? She has that Amazon look to her.
How about Lake Bell? She has that Amazon look to her.
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http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b222378_guess_who_wants_play_wonder_woman.html
I posted this article in the old Wonder Woman thread last month.
Bridget Regan also has the right looks. How tall is she? (I hate the way imdb hides everything nowadays.) 
It's funny how the word immortal is lost in the shuffle.
Then, I tire of these origin stories that it would be just fine to pick up the story ten years after her arrival in man's World and then Carla would make as much sense as some teen from Disney trying to prove they have scope.
Thuogh she is wearing clown make up on Californication right now. I don't trust women who chose to look like clowns in the most expensive way possible almost.
Is wonder woman as old as she looks or is she 200 years old?
Bridget Regan is someone who I've supported for the role for a long time. Craig Bryne from K-Site wanted her to play Diana in Smallville. I still think she could carry another series.
Watching One Tree Hill from a couple days ago and they are doing a Superhero Theme... Is this Sophia Bush campaigning for a role in tights elsewear?
Bridget Regan looks good...
Can she play a spunky Wonder Woman/Diana Prince? From the script reviews, I get the impression that that's what they want. Also is she ready to jump back into acting? She just had a baby.
Can she play a spunky Wonder Woman/Diana Prince? From the script reviews, I get the impression that that's what they want. Also is she ready to jump back into acting? She just had a baby.
She's perpetually 29.
Michelle Ryan would be pretty good. I think she could nail that kind of role.
Immortal. Unaging. The producers are going to want a lead who can be convincingly ageless if the series is a hit and runs for 7 years.
Besides, there's just Hollywood's usual obsession with youth to consider. They're not going to cast a Wonder Woman who's old enough to be a mother. Personally, I think that could be an interesting interpretation, but I doubt it's what they're going for here.
If this was the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman she could be mid transformation here. Perhaps Diana was at a Renaissance Faire at the time.
If this was the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman she could be mid transformation here. Perhaps, Diana was at a Renaissance Faire at the time.
Actually in most interviews I've seen Bridget has amazing legs that were mostly kept covered up on Seeker.
Bridget Regan also has the right looks. How tall is she? (I hate the way imdb hides everything nowadays.)
She's 5' 8" (1.73 m). I would actually watch this show if she were chosen for the role.
Comic Book Movie posted the casting sheet for the series:
WONDER WOMAN
Pilot
SAG
DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television/NBC
Draft: 12/16/10
Exec. Producers: David E. Kelley, Bill D’Elia
Producers: TBD
Director: TBD
Casting Director: David Rapaport
Casting Associate: Lyndsey Baldasare
NY Casting Directors: Beth Bowling & Kim Miscia
NY Casting Assistant: Michael Rios
Start Date: March 15, 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY
NO SCRIPT AVAILABLE
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, race, age, colour, national origin, ethnic origin or any other basis prohibited by law unless otherwise specifically indicated.
[WONDER WOMAN / DIANA THEMYSCIRA / DIANA PRINCE] Female, late 20s to 30s. A kick-ass Superhero / Powerful C.E.O. / A vulnerable woman. Long flowing black hair, blue eyes. Amazon-like, muscular, an Olympian. The charismatic stage presence of a rock star. A crime fighter. Also, a real woman who yearns to live a normal life. She is accessible and appealing to all people, men and women alike…SERIES LEAD. ASP.
[MYNDI MAYER] Female, open ethnicity, 30s. Publicist, Press Secretary and Wonder Woman’s confidant and nurturing best friend. Worldy and edgy. Sexy and persuasive, her appearance is part of her strength. She is beautiful and put together - dressed expensively in the latest fashions, plus she’s got a bit of bite, clever wit and sass. She’s the prodder of Diana’s social life…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[ETTA] Female, open ethnicity, 30s. Diana Themyscira’s always cheerful personal assistant. A bit charactery, but real, pretty and effervescent. She is blindly devoted to Diana. She’s her unrelenting cheerleader, with unwavering, unabated support. On the vulnerable side, she sees the humble and sympathetic sides in everyone, including Diana…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[CEO HENRY DEMETER] Male, open ethnicity, 40s. Acting CEO of Themyscira Industries. Grounded, intelligent and deeply devoted to Diana. He runs the day to day operations of the company and acts like an Uncle to Diana although he could be a possible love interest down the line…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[STEVE TREVOR] Male, open ethnicity, 30s. A leading man Diana can’t look past. Good looking but a real man. An Army vet, he now works in the Justice dept…SERIES REGULAR, ASP.
[ED INDELICATO] Male, late 30s to early 40s. Stoic and tough, he is a liaison to the police department. Devoted and loyal to Diana, he’s blue collar, a no nonsense kind of guy. A chiseled man who subscribes to the old fashion rules of relationships - men don’t talk much. His job comes first and he wouldn’t make room for the possibility that there is potential romantic relationship with Diana…SERIES REGULAR, 10/13.
WONDER WOMAN
Pilot
SAG
DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television/NBC
Draft: 12/16/10
Exec. Producers: David E. Kelley, Bill D’Elia
Producers: TBD
Director: TBD
Casting Director: David Rapaport
Casting Associate: Lyndsey Baldasare
NY Casting Directors: Beth Bowling & Kim Miscia
NY Casting Assistant: Michael Rios
Start Date: March 15, 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY
NO SCRIPT AVAILABLE
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, race, age, colour, national origin, ethnic origin or any other basis prohibited by law unless otherwise specifically indicated.
[WONDER WOMAN / DIANA THEMYSCIRA / DIANA PRINCE] Female, late 20s to 30s. A kick-ass Superhero / Powerful C.E.O. / A vulnerable woman. Long flowing black hair, blue eyes. Amazon-like, muscular, an Olympian. The charismatic stage presence of a rock star. A crime fighter. Also, a real woman who yearns to live a normal life. She is accessible and appealing to all people, men and women alike…SERIES LEAD. ASP.
[MYNDI MAYER] Female, open ethnicity, 30s. Publicist, Press Secretary and Wonder Woman’s confidant and nurturing best friend. Worldy and edgy. Sexy and persuasive, her appearance is part of her strength. She is beautiful and put together - dressed expensively in the latest fashions, plus she’s got a bit of bite, clever wit and sass. She’s the prodder of Diana’s social life…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[ETTA] Female, open ethnicity, 30s. Diana Themyscira’s always cheerful personal assistant. A bit charactery, but real, pretty and effervescent. She is blindly devoted to Diana. She’s her unrelenting cheerleader, with unwavering, unabated support. On the vulnerable side, she sees the humble and sympathetic sides in everyone, including Diana…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[CEO HENRY DEMETER] Male, open ethnicity, 40s. Acting CEO of Themyscira Industries. Grounded, intelligent and deeply devoted to Diana. He runs the day to day operations of the company and acts like an Uncle to Diana although he could be a possible love interest down the line…SERIES REGULAR. ASP.
[STEVE TREVOR] Male, open ethnicity, 30s. A leading man Diana can’t look past. Good looking but a real man. An Army vet, he now works in the Justice dept…SERIES REGULAR, ASP.
[ED INDELICATO] Male, late 30s to early 40s. Stoic and tough, he is a liaison to the police department. Devoted and loyal to Diana, he’s blue collar, a no nonsense kind of guy. A chiseled man who subscribes to the old fashion rules of relationships - men don’t talk much. His job comes first and he wouldn’t make room for the possibility that there is potential romantic relationship with Diana…SERIES REGULAR, 10/13.
Bwah hah! Bow to your new female overlords. Or ladies. Or something...err...
I remembering reading something about the guy who created Wonder Woman that made him sound really errr interesting. Had some specific ideas about sex and gender roles. The kind of guy who might be into dominatrix action. Anyone know anything about that?
William Moulton Marston, who invented and wrote Wonder Woman under the pen name Charles Moulton, was a psychologist and the inventor of the systolic blood pressure test which became an integral part of the polygraph machine. Thus the genesis of one aspect of the magic lasso - he was fascinated by the idea of being able to detect deception. But he definitely liked the lasso for other things as well...
He embarked upon the creation of Wonder Woman because he believed strongly in the educational potential of comic books to influence both young men and young women. He wanted to create a superheroinie that embodied his ideas of the superiority of the basic feminine instinct. He said in a few famous interviews that if men could submit to the loving authority of females, the world would be a much better place. Marston believed that there is a male notion of freedom that is inherently anarchic and violent, and an opposing female notion based on "Love Allure" that leads to an ideal state of submission to loving authority.
Marston was engaged in a long term polyamorous relationship with his wife, Elizabeth, and his personal assistant, Olive Byrne, who wore silver bracelets on her arms that were the genesis of the bullet-deflecting bracelets of Wonder Woman. The three of them were rumored to engage in bondage and domination games as part of their loving relationship (in which they raised two or three kids, I believe), apparently going every which way in terms of who was dominant and who was submissive. Much of this material was barely disguised in early Wonder Woman comics, which included such items as the idea that Amazons wore the bracelets as symbols of their former enslaved state to men, and if an Amazon ever had her bracelets chained by a man, she lost her powers completely - which happened to Wonder Woman frequently. The Amazons also, in the words of wikipedia, "engaged in frequent wrestling and bondage play".
Moulton was quoted on these philosophies as saying:
"The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound ... Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society. ... Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element".
About male readers, he later wrote: "Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to, and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves!""
So he was a learned and respected psychologist as well as the creator of a feminist icon. The funny thing is that, even though there's a strong kink to the guy, he was very sincere about his belief in the strength, even the superiority, of women - and not of women as faux men, but actually in the superiority of femininity. But it's not particularly strange that Wonder Woman is a bit tangled between feminist icon and male fantasy figure, given her origins in this guy's imagination.
Definitely a more interesting guy than your average comic book creator...
^ I read that he had four kids, two with his wife and two with Olive.
^ You are correct. From wikipedia on Elizabeth Marston:
"Marston was a career woman, a position that was controversial for the time in which she lived. She had her first child at the age of thirty-five and continued to work even after having children, also revolutionary for the time. She eventually had two children (Pete and Olive Ann) and also supported the two children of Olive Byrne, (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship). These children, Byrne and Donn, were legally adopted by the Marstons. While Olive stayed home to raise the children, Elizabeth supported the family when William was out of work and after his death in 1947. This included financing the college and graduate education of all four children and supporting Olive until her death in the 1980s."
"Marston was a career woman, a position that was controversial for the time in which she lived. She had her first child at the age of thirty-five and continued to work even after having children, also revolutionary for the time. She eventually had two children (Pete and Olive Ann) and also supported the two children of Olive Byrne, (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship). These children, Byrne and Donn, were legally adopted by the Marstons. While Olive stayed home to raise the children, Elizabeth supported the family when William was out of work and after his death in 1947. This included financing the college and graduate education of all four children and supporting Olive until her death in the 1980s."
So, is there anyone in the series who isn't "deeply devoted" and loyal to Diana?
Maybe she has a cat who craps on the bed, or something?
I am hoping the arch-nemesis won't be. But, you never know.