Wonder Woman is one of those projects that can just never seem to find its feet. Joss Whedon was on it for a while but then eventually left the project, and thats about as close as we’ve gotten. It’s a shame too because very few people seem to be able to create strong female characters like Whedon does.
Our next best hope of seeing Wonder Woman on the big screen was with the (thankfully now scrapped) Justice League project, but that’s gone now too (thank goodness). So it seems we’re no closer to a Wonder Woman movie that we were 10 years ago. But that doesn’t mean things aren’t trying to happen.
Producer Joel Silver has been trying to get this thing off the ground, and he recently named dropped the Wachowski brothers as possible directors. This comes to us from the folks over at MTV:
One rumored possibility: the Wachowski brothers (”The Matrix,” “Speed Racer”). “At one time, Joel [Silver] said they might have an idea. But they got diverted to another project [and] never followed through,” he said, before adding, “There may come a time when they will be focused on ‘Wonder Woman’ and may come up with whatever their take on it was. They’re certainly very talented guys. Their vision for movies — whether they’re successful or not — is always singular.”
This would seem logical since Silver just worked with the Wachowski brother on that horrible piece of shit bomb “Speed Racer”. I know Silver respects them… but they also lost him a lot of money on that doomed project, so there’s something in me that doubts he’d be ready to jump into the saddle with them again on another named franchise project. But who knows.
To me, Wonder Woman is a bad idea for a movie. A great comic character no doubt, but I just don’t see a market for her in theaters… never have. I thought with a Joss Whedon attached there might be a chance, but without him, I really don’t see it. Just my opinion.
