I am in geek heaven today with all this comic book movie news. Now we get wind that Joel Silver has spilled some information about the Wonder Woman movie.
Silver told SCI FI Wire that the Wonder Woman project had a long way to go. “We’re not there yet,” Silver said in an interview. “I mean, look, … for a while these Marvel Comics [movies] have been kicking the DC Comics [movies’] ass. You know? I mean all these characters that just keep coming out. And, look, they revived Batman. They’re making a new Batman now. It should be great. They’re making a new Superman, and they’re going to do Justice League, all the characters, which I think is a cool idea. And we’re going to get Wonder Woman to work.”
And this is the part that got me all itchy for this movie again.
Silver denied that the spec script would be the basis for the movie. “I don’t think so,” he said, adding that he never wanted to make a period film. “We didn’t buy it for that. There were some good ideas in it, but it was out there, and we wanted to just kind of not have it floating around. We wanted just to acquire it and keep it.”
I was excited about Joss Whedon writing the Wonder Woman script, and there was even a lot of buzz going on around the net as to who might fill the star spangled lingerie. Then we got news that Joss was off the script, and that they bought a script that featured Wonder Woman in a World War II era. Granted that’s where the character began, but still it screwed up any hope of Wonder Woman appearing in the Justice League movie that got me all wet in the bathing suit area.
So now we see that a careful eye is being played on this movie, and rightfully so. DC holds three major characters as the cornerstone of their entire universe. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. If they gave her less care than the other two, it just would be an injustice.
Then to put an extra layer of icing on the cake, Silver lays to rest the concerns that they might actually use the World War II script. There is a Zeus on Mount Olympus after all!
They were just buying the script to take credit for some of the ideas in it. Thats respectable. These guys might have made the news in the future if it turned out their script was ejected and major plot points were used in the movie regardless. But Silver is very clear that they don’t want to make a period movie. That is good news indeed.
So its not “there” yet. Take your time boys. Get it right.
