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This past week it was revealed on WENN (via cinematical) that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is “fighting so hard” to be cast in the title role in Warner Bros/DC adaptation of Wonder Woman. Love Hewitt is quoted as saying:
“I really want to play Wonder Woman. I’m obsessed with Wonder Woman.”
The studio recently promised that the project was in active development, but we don’t know how close Warner Bros is to ato moving forward — remember, the adaptation has been in various stages of development for years.
Nicolas Winding Refn Would Love to Direct Wonder Woman
Posted on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
Whoa. Color me psyched. Regular readers know that a few of us here at /Film are big fans of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, thanks to films like the Pusher series and Bronson.
Refn has made small, non-studio pictures so far, though the upcoming Drive, with Ryan Gosling, brings him closer to the studio fold. But if Refn does do a big studio movie, which is something he’s not actively avoiding, he’s got one in mind: Wonder Woman. Does that seem crazy? Frankly, yes, but there’s video of Refn talking about it.
A BBC video interview from a couple weeks back ends with Refn talking about how his stock changed in Hollywood after Bronson, and what he’d like to do, should he make a studio picture.
After Valhalla Rising I thought the most surprising thing for me would be to go to Los Angeles and do a studio movie. Coming from a movie where I had complete control — I also own the movie — and had complete, kind of like, accessibility around me, and then going to Hollywood and doing a film within the studio, which is very much the opposite, I thought could be a very interesting experience for me.
I guess one of the aims I am having, but at the very early stage, I always wanted to do Wonder Woman as a feature film…Well, I would say that Wonder Woman is probably something that, to me, would be not just a satisfaction, but almost a [catharsis], and I was born to make it.
So…is he joking? Doesn’t seem like it, though the interview is cut up enough that it is possible. The smile on Refn’s face when he mentions the title seems to be more “yeah, I know it’s a weird choice” than “I’m messing with you.” But it could be him having a laugh.
And note that this is not a ‘Warner Bros. has attached/hired Refn’ article, as much as I’d like that to be the case. It is just him saying he’d like to do the movie, but with some language in there (’at the very early stage’) that suggests he has had conversations with the studio about it.
Why do I love this idea so much? In part because Wonder Woman has long been in development under the eye of Joel Silver, who has never seemed like the ideal guy for the job. OK, he helped shepherd at least one significant female character to the screen in the form of Trinity in The Matrix. But in general, the Silver sense of bombast doesn’t seem like the right fit for Wonder Woman. But with a director like Refn, things might really cook. Refn has his intuitive and empathetic faculties in full working order, but can also deliver very effective action.
The Wonder Woman comments come just after this statement about his standing after Bronson:
I wouldn’t say that I got mainstream offers, but I think that lot of young actors, especially in Hollywood, wanted to do their Bronson, so I got flooded with talent from over there, which was a great opportunity.
That would seem to link to the Ryan Gosling-starring Drive, which could be one of Refn’s next couple films. And, given what he’s done Tom Hardy in Bronson, I can also see many actresses thinking that they’d be in good hands playing Wonder Woman for Refn.
JLH def has the "goods" for the role, lol, not sure she is as tall and imposing as WW should be though.
NO SKINNY GIRLS PLEASE!
Rumor: Wonder Woman Film in 2013?
Saturday, July 2, 2011
MMM has received word from a new source close to Warner Bros. indicating the studio is developing a Wonder Woman film for a potential 2013 release.
This news comes as a surprise with so little time having passed since the Wonder Woman television pilot was passed on by NBC. While this new source appears to be legitimate, take this news with a grain of salt. Even our source admits that the project is in very early developmental stages, meaning that Warner Bros. is far off from actually committing to this production.
Keep in mind that the trajectory of this project, like all other DCE projects currently in development, could change drastically if Warner Bros. goes back to the drawing board after the underwhelming box office performance of Green Lantern.
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