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After long months of development, a very public production phase, and relentless back-and-forth waves of online buzz and counterbuzz and double-reverse-counterbuzz, the verdict is in: Wonder Woman will not be a TV show. At least not on NBC. David E. Kelley’s TV reboot now joins Joss Whedon’s film in the dustbin of Wonder Woman projects that never were. (And that dustbin is already quite full — check out EW’s full report on Wonder Woman’s tangled web of unfinished film projects.) This won’t be the end. As reported by the LA Times, the new President of Warner Bros. wants to get all the Justice League superheroes on the big screen, so it’s entirely possible that we will see a real flesh-and-blood actress playing the most iconic female superhero sometime in the next decade.
But putting aside the financial benefit, maybe we comic book fans should take this latest disappointment as a lesson. Maybe Wonder Woman just shouldn’t get a TV show, or a movie, or any live-action adaptation. It’s simply impossible to imagine any take on the project that can address the character’s fundamental problem: She is meant to be an inspiring feminist icon, but she represents a vast array of things that feminism despises. By which I mean, she dresses like a stripper. READ FULL STORY »
